I’ve been enjoying working on improving some of the finer details on Electric Sheep. The most recent improvement was made to the post toolbar.
This is the before:
And this is the after:
It’s much cleaner and compact and I also think it’s also much clearer which items are clickable and which are informational now.
I created a new RSS feed reader. It's called Electric Sheep and you can try it at electricsheep.news
No algorithms.
No recommendations.
No ads.
No tracking.
There's a few different tools to add feeds. You can add them from a URL, Import OPML, use the bookmarklet, or browse and choose from a curated list to get started.
If you give it a try and have any feedback you can email me at richard@richfish.net
But only if you want to...
I'm working on a new project and just re-architected things so that everything still works if you have Javascript disabled.
Why do this?
PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.
Via (Stuart Breckenridge)
Disabling Javascript isn't such a crazy idea. I'm using a light sprinkling, just a soupson, but if people want to disable it, they should be able to.