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The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Would it be possible to add a free for The Guardian? In the current political climate we need independent journalism and they recent quit Twitter, so it is time to drag them over to the Fediverse. Thanks.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure: !theguardian@rss.ponder.cat

I've been trying to avoid adding every single periodical with a new feed so they proliferate, but there's always space for The Granuiad.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brilliant thanks. 👍

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if there’s a feed that’s only top stories? I’m using https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss but that one seems to spam a constant flood of posts, which I’ve been trying to avoid.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, according to this, if you add "rss" to any index page you get a feed.

So clicking "news" and doing that gets me:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss

World news:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss

I don't know if you can combine two but that would trim things down.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I looked at how it's set up. I think the right thing would be to set it up so there's one community for each main section: World, US news, sport, tech, and so on.

The issue is that there are a huge number of them. That's pretty common, but usually there's a "top stories" feed that I can do. I could make a bunch of new communities, one per section, but I'm a little reluctant to just make huge amounts of spam if I'm not sure how much human attention they're going to get.

Which sections would you want? Maybe I could do like I did for Ars Technica, and make a few communities for some of the mainly useful ones. I'm still not sure how to handle it, to be honest. It would be nice if I could set up a nicer UI so that people could just pick out exactly what they wanted, without creating spam or ghost-town communities for other people.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's excellent! Okay, I updated the one community to be only that one.

Like I said, I'm open to adding other ones or multiple communities, I'm just not sure where to strike the balance that won't wind up creating tons of communities that don't see a lot of use.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

That seems good for now. If they want more they can join the Fediverse!