Ekster creates mentions from links in items, but Ekster Reader replaces the whole item with the mention. I could see an option for the mentioned link to become a whole new item, or make it more of an insert card. It would be nice to open mentioned links in another panel so we can work with like other microsub items.
I moved Ekster back to Github. This should be easier to use for more people.
I recreated the Pipedream workflow that adds emails to a channel in Ekster. The worflow prepares a micropub entry and sends it to the micropub endpoint of Ekster. I can now forward emails to an email address and the workflow processes the rest. This is really useful for newsletters and other marketing emails.
I'm testing with the new bucketed fetching of feeds. The algorithm is similar to algorithm Aperture uses. The difference is that the buckets are powers of 2 at the moment. Every tier is the exponent of 2 minutes, after the last fetch.
In the middle of a rewrite of the backend of Ekster. The next version will have a full Postgres-based backend.
I'm trying to add the "_source" field to items in Ekster. At the moment it adds the information from the FeedHeader when it is available.
It seems the Microsub reader works well enough in a mobile browser.
What would I need to send the webmention notifications to Ekster? It seems that I need to post the webmentions as Micropub posts to a channel.
I have been building a Postgres backend for some of the timelines. This timeline type returns items in reverse chronological order and keeps all of them (for now). The sorted sets type removed all read items.
→ www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/02/revisiting-my-ideal-feed-reader
List of use cases for a feed reader.