It looks like Feed Informer (formerly Feed Digest) is frozen, though this is not a complaint. When someone offers a service for free for years, and hasn’t enshittified, then being down once a year (the last time was January 2024) for a few days is hardly worth getting upset about. Last time it was out for eight or so days. So far it’s only been four this time. This post is just so you know that we have spotted how the Feed Informer feeds on all our sites have been frozen, and if we knew how to work with any alternatives, we would. But Feed Informer has been the easiest to use, and in over a decade—I think it might be closer to 15 years since I began using it—no one has come up with a viable competitor. I’ve put up a query on Mastodon and some nice people have boosted it, but so far, there are no bites.
It’s like email programs and word processors. It’s as though humanity reached a zenith with Eudora and WordPerfect in the 2000s and we couldn’t move past either.
There is an Autocade milestone to be recorded—at the appropriate place, Autocade World. We sure are getting a lot of bot sign-ups there though, mostly Gmail, some Yahoo Mail. Life would be easier if we could do a blanket Gmail block at server level but there are just enough legitimate people (including members of our own team) using it to prevent us from doing so. If you or I had an email service with that many bots, we’d have been blocked years ago. There is no point for any legitimate user to adopt Gmail, in my opinion, not to mention some serious privacy issues.
Added to the blogroll is 82 MHz, which I found via Richard MacManus on Mastodon. Andreas, who runs the blog, has a regular ‘Linkdump’ series and among them was this gem called Simone’s Computer. It loads up and runs with all the æsthetic of a 1990s computer and Andreas notes that it even has a screensaver. I might have to add this to the JY&A links’ section.
PS.: Good news. After five days, the Feed Informer embedded codes have started updating again. Thank you to the crew there!
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