OpenvibeAn app that allows you to follow social networks such as Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Nostr in one place, now expands its functionality so you can follow your favorite news and blogs. To do this, starting adds support for RSS (AKA really simple links or news supplies), an open standard that allows you to sign up for automatic updates from websites, such as new articles or blog posts.
The addition makes OpenVibe more useful to maintain your interests and other important information without having to change between multiple IDs, sites or social networking applications.
The new feature also puts OpenVibe in more direct competition with other social media and content batteries that monitor updates from all over the open tissue. These competitors include Tapestry, the new application from the company that once created a popular Twitter customer known as Twitterific. Feeeed, an RSS reader who supports social profile monitoring in Mastodon, YouTube and other platforms. And Surf, a new open social application and browser by Flipboard manufacturers.
OpenVibe’s CEO Matej Svancer reports that RSS support has always been part of the long -term map of the application by the release of last year. However, the characteristic was strongly demanded by the users’ base, so the team prioritized its development, he says.
To use the feature, you can choose to add RSS sources one by one, check the proposed app websites and press “Follow” to those who want to watch or enter the entire OPML file from another news reader. After more people to adopt RSS, OpenVibe will introduce a leaderboard that shows the most added flows to help direct users to popular sources.
Once added, you can track RSS updates to the combined feed power supply to the special “RSS” flow, or you can add RSS power supplies to your custom flow.
While RSS can also be used to monitor podcasts and YouTube channels, OpenVibe is not yet focused on these forms, says Svancer TechCrunch. It may be technically possible to add to the application today, but it will not provide a good user experience, explains – unless you don’t mind opening each item in a browser.
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However, with news and blogs, OpenVibe opens content directly into the application using a clean reading mode without distraction. If you prefer to visit the websites in a browser, you can change this setting.
In addition, the application offers a “mode mode” switch that will disable images loading in the timetable previews to make the feature even less intense.
The company has tried the RSS trait before launching with just over 100 people who have, in combination, added over 4,000 foods.
RSS support is now available in OpenVibe’s iOS and Android applications. The application itself remains free to download free in -application purchases for now, but the company plans to introduce a subscription offer in the future.
The start is currently supported by a small amount of funding by the Czech founders VC, Tensor Ventures and Automattic – the parent company at WordPress.com, Tumblr, Beeper and others.
