Why did you start this site?
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I found that it was difficult to keep up with climbing-related news as each individual outlet tended to only post content onto their sites and on traditional social media (e.g. Facebook, X, etc.) but not on any platforms that I frequent.
Secondly, I wanted to expose climbing-related content to the fediverse, which I consider to be the next generation of social media.
Back in the day, most news outlets maintained what was called an RSS feed, and readers could subscribe to them from their reader of choice. For a number of reasons (technical hurdles, monetizations, etc.), RSS has fallen out of favour, so most people no longer have the ability to pick and choose which sites to subscribe to.
This site aims to address this shortcoming. Most, if not all, of the sites aggregated here do not maintain their own RSS feeds any longer, or never did.