A feed catalogue that checks its own feeds
The new catalogue lists working feeds by topic, polled by the engine itself, so a broken feed leaves on its own. Follow one, or a whole collection at once.
Every reader has a cold-start problem: a new account is empty, and the first hour is spent hunting for addresses. The feed catalogue is our answer: collections of feeds by topic, from news by country to business, technology, marketing and culture, which you follow one at a time or as a whole.
Only feeds that work
Catalogues of feeds rot. A list compiled once fills with dead addresses within a year, and nobody notices until a reader does. Ours cannot rot in that way, because every feed in it is a subscription of the engine itself: the catalogue holds them through an account of its own, the engine polls them like anyone's feeds, and the pages are built from what the engine measured.
So a feed is listed only after it has been read a couple of times and has posted within the last three months. A feed that starts answering with errors, or falls silent, leaves the list by itself; a feed that posts rarely stays, marked as such. Each row shows the posting rate in words, links the site, and gives the feed's own address for any other reader.
Following
With a MicroRSS account, Follow on a row subscribes you to that feed, and Follow all on a collection takes every feed it shows, into a category named after the collection. Since the engine already polls them, nothing is fetched on the spot: the subscription opens with the feed's twenty newest entries and goes on from there. The plan's feed limit stops a large collection where it must and says how far it got.
The numbers
The first version holds 2 761 feeds in 13 categories, taken from our own subscriptions in other readers over the years and checked against the engine one by one. Expect it to shrink a little as the engine finds the dead ones, and to grow as collections are curated. If a collection you would expect is missing, write to us.
One more thing
Full-text search landed in the same release. Everything the engine holds, the body of every article included, is indexed, and the search box in the top bar reads it: words match as prefixes, which is what makes Ukrainian and Russian searches work across declensions, and a quoted phrase matches exactly. How search works.