Blorp lol. Don’t ask about the name. Very much a work in progress, but I’m aiming for a public beta in 2ish months. Though I know it’s very likely I’ll be the only one that uses it.

As an Android/iOS app, Blorp will cache the data (and optionally images) offline. So any feeds/posts that are already loaded you will be able to read offline.

Right now that’s the biggest feature setting me apart from Voyager, but I want to keep iterating and improving.

This is the website version, which admittedly is a bit more clunky than the iOS/Android app. https://blorpblorp.xyz/

Yeah I’m curious too! What technical sorcery is OP doing for presumably free API access

And this is actually the issue. As a developer I want to build and app based on what interests me. Then I want to write a post about it.

The comments:

• person 1: Why would you waste your time building an app for that platform, you should build an app for this platform that way less people use”
• person 2: “nah that’s a waste of time you should build an app for this even more niche platform with even less users”
• person 3: “you should just use RSS feeds and anything else is a waste of time”

Me as a developer “thanks guys I just wanted to build an app for a platform I’m passionate about”

Wrote this comment on my own lemmy client, because I like using about lemmy :)

Idk maybe I’m wrong. I worked for a news outlet for a couple years and I just remember generating and parsing XML to be more work then generating a JSON feed.

It’s not even just parsing. I just remember crawling the parsed JSON tree to not be as nice as navigating a JSON object.

But a lot of languages have native support for parsing JSON without the need for a library. When it’s handled by the language, it’s more likely to be done to spec, doesn’t increase bundle size (if that matters to you), and will be considered as updates to the language are made.

I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.

Something like this

Did the logo fix everything?