Thank you for the kind words! I have always loved news readers and aggregators, but many of them seem to follow the same approach. I wanted something different for myself and it just kept evolving.
Developer here .. I am excited to announce the beta launch of NEWS and RUMORS ..
https://newsandrumors.com/
I have been solo developing NEWS and RUMORS for the last year with the goal of improving and simplifying content discovery and providing a way for lesser known bloggers and content publishers to reach a much larger audience.
There is so much great content on the internet that gets lost or never found because the search engines, news readers and news aggregators all feature and focus on the same high traffic sources, many of which write articles based on content from the same professional newswires and press releases.
I want to give readers a lot more control over the content they consume and the format of how it is presented.
To do this I developed a high performance search engine using a very clean and highly customizable low-bandwidth user interface for searching and displaying content acquired through an extensive modular-designed indexing system.
There will be a lot more that NEWS and RUMORS will offer as I continue its development, but it is a fully functional and beneficial service right now that I hope many people will enjoy!
## OVERVIEW
NEWS and RUMORS provides fast and simple access to a large amount of diverse content from a wide variety of sources while focusing on user privacy.
I created NEWS and RUMORS because I wanted a news and content search engine that does not show me advertisements as search results, does not track everything I do, does not only show content from high traffic sites, and lets me decide what content I want and do not want to see and how I want to see it.
The "Popular" search results (default home page) currently contains a variety of hand-picked sources because there is not enough traffic yet to generate an accurate list, but that will change once more people start using the site.
## FEATURES
- Discover great content from sites other services ignore
- Search, read and save your favorite sites, topics and searches
- Fast and low bandwidth web interface
- Personalize search results
- Multiple site theme options and search layout options
I was looking at the payed options and it shows a one-time upgrade key, but it requires me to enter payment information before providing any info on it such as the price or defining what the one-time upgrade entails.
That is an oversight definitely. The payment flow requires we collect the payment method before the "checkout" page, but it should definitely show all prices prior to the payment method step. I will work on changing that.
Add a warning on "we sent the email" to "check your spam folder if it doesn't appear".
Typo "Exlude" in help. My opinion, help on search needs a rewrite, it is confusing AF.
Is there a way to set my "Default search" to a SET of sources? Like if I want to pick gizmodo, npr, ... a dozen or so fave sources. As it stands the source list is like a huge radio set, only one button down at a time.
There does not seem to be a lot of haskell content though in the search engine so if you have some sources you can recommend, let me know and I will add them.
I will also setup a search topic (#haskell) for it to make it easier.
As you can tell, I have a lot more sites to add to the index and search topics to create .. :)
The index rate for each source automatically adapts based on the frequency of new content while maintaining a reasonable minimum frequency for sporadic sources.
The goal is to index content as quickly as possible without impacting each site's performance or causing automated defense systems to block the requests.
