[travisvn]

Hey folks, I'm the developer working on Blogs Are Back. WakaTime has me clocked in at over 900 hours on this project so far...

If CORS weren't an issue, it could've been done in 1/10th of that time. But if that were the case, there would've already been tons of web-based RSS readers available.

Anyway, the goal of this project is to help foster interest in indie blogs and help a bit with discovery. Feel free to submit your blog if you'd like!

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

[chrismorgan]

> style="opacity:0;transform:translateY(20px)"

In my opinion, that’s a bigger problem than CORS. Proxyless web feed reader is a lost cause, you’re wasting your time because only a small minority are ever going to support it. But that opacity and transition nonsense gratuitously slows down page loading for everyone, and hides content completely for those that aren’t running JS.

(What I would also like to know is: how come this is the third time I’ve seen exactly this—each block of content having this exact style attribute—in the past month, when I don’t remember encountering exactly it before?)

[travisvn]

The entire web app is JS based. It's a requirement I'm ok with.

And to answer your question, you're seeing that kind of styling so frequently because it's likely part of Framer Motion, an extremely popular animation library

https://www.npmjs.com/package/framer-motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/motion

[Orygin]

Would also be great if the animations respected the `prefers-reduced-motion` setting, instead of forcing down animations that reduces accessibility.

[mzajc]

Is the website machine generated? Besides the hard-dependency on JavaScript, this also causes the exact same problem I've seen on another[1] machine generated site: https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6, https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk. This happens randomly on refresh on Firefox 148.0-1.

Is the fade effect really worth having parts of your site disappear at random?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669

[trick-or-treat]

I think cooler heads will agree that a middle ground where the content is available on the initial request is best. But what do I know /s

[elliotbnvl]

This is something Opus 4.6 likes to generate a LOT for some reason.

[pianom4n]

Seriously. This page terrible with multiple annoying rendering delays, and I'm supposed to care about helping their RSS feeds load faster?

[rglullis]

Hey, this is very interesting! As someone working on an extension that works as an ActivityPub client, I don't have to deal with CORS issues so much (most servers configure CORS properly, and the extension can bypass CORS issues anyway) but I just spent a good chunk of my weekend working on a proxy that could deal with Mastodon's "authorized fetch".

So, basically, any URI that I need to resolve goes tries first to fetch directly and it falls back to making the request through the proxy if I get any type of authentication error.

[freetonik]

Hey! Blogs Are Back is cool! Nice to see more modern RSS readers, and also thematic blog collections. If you seek more curated blogs to share with your users, check out my project https://minifeed.net/

[moebrowne]

Blog submission form: https://www.blogsareback.com/submit

[Klonoar]

You need to put a screenshot of the app on your page.

[m_sahaf]

How can someone add platforms to the guide? I want to add Caddy