So, I'm tentative to announce this project, as the server it's running on is a bit of a potato which will probably fall over pretty quick if it gains any traction, but...
Introducing RSS Temple!
If you're interested in a free RSS reader which attempts to mimic some of the more useful features of the big players (Feedly and Google Reader, in particular), including full-text search, hotkey navigation, small footprint interface, and sharing to both Lemmy and Mastodon (among others), I would love if you gave RSS Temple a try.
I've been working on this project for ~7 years now, and I alone cannot find any more bugs or usability issues, so I hope it's ready for the community to see. Any feedback is appreciated!
The code is open at:
https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple (server, Python)
https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple_ui (landing page and web app, Angular and EleventyJS)
https://github.com/murrple-1/ansible-collection-rss-temple (Ansible scripts to deploy one's own instance)
Ugh, first impression matter immensely, and I dropped that ball, eh? :(
For what it's worth, I've set the captcha library back to its default settings, so hopefully the defaults are less obnoxious. The library I'm using is pretty popular, so I was guessing that bots would have fully trained their way around it by now, and so I chose some slightly less obvious fonts to put up a tiny bit of a barrier, but ya know, the balance of "legible for humans" and "hard for bots" is very hard. And I am no expert on captcha design
Yeah, the fact is today that the more advanced bots are probably better at captchas than humans. There isn't really a great solution here. But I tried at least 10 times before I got one right.
Aye, I'll stick with the defaults for now, at least until I have a bot problem (which is in some ways a good problem to have 😋)