River4

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River4 is an RSS aggregator written by Dave Winer. The project is written in node.js and open source[1]. In contrast to other styles of feed reader, it produces a "River of News" characterized by[2]:

Features

  • entries have a title, summary, and link.
  • rivers group articles from the same source together
  • no "unread" counts, just a vertically arranged list of feeds sorted reverse chronologically

River4 stores data on the user's local system or on Amazon S3, decoupling the reader web app from the server/datastore. Another feature of River4 is that multiple rivers, or groups of RSS feeds, can be presented on the same web site through a tab interface.

The specification for the river format is at RiverJS.org

How to

Install

Installation information

IndieWeb Examples

Examples of uses by IndieWebCamp participants

Other Examples

Examples of uses by other independents:

Demonstrations:

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