19 and 20 June
- Started showing article content (short summaries if provided, etc.) for each feed if provided.
19 and 20 June
18 June 2024
13 June 2024
8 June 2024
This site works by looking at "lists of articles" and importing them. Usually, those lists only contain a short summary or teaser.
Secondly, while there is definitely appeal to maintaining a single place to read news, there is also merit in driving traffic to the original sites for a number of reasons (viewership metrics, ad revenue, etc.)
There is one exception, however... if a site does expose an RSS feed, and that feed contains the entire article content, then this site will try to post the entire article.
7 June 2024
4 June 2024
5 June 2024
Great! I'd love to work more closely with publishers directly so that climbing news is disseminated more throughly!
Please leave me a message on the Comments & Feedback category, or send me an email at julian [at] devnull [dot] land.
If you have a suggestion for a climbing-related news outlet or video channel you'd like to see tracked on this site, please let me know via the Comments & Feedback category.
Since most sites do not have their own RSS feeds, it was fairly difficult to create an aggregator quickly.
However, I use a service called FetchRSS that allows me to turn any site's content into an RSS feed.
This site is built on NodeBB, and uses the RSS plugin to consume those feeds to create content.
NodeBB is also connected to the Fediverse, and so all captured content is automatically federated out to that social network as well.
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.