Short notes on fixes and polish while Syndicator is still in beta.
Syndicator is an RSS reader for keeping up with news sites, blogs, newsletters, Substacks, and company updates in one place. It groups repeated stories, ranks what matters to you, and keeps the reading experience quiet and fast.
It is built by Yury Molodtsov. You can reach me at yury@molodtsov.me or on X.
Social
You can now like articles shared by people you follow. The thumbs-up shows the current like count once someone likes a story.
Your four latest shares now appear in Social, with their like counts. You can also see likes on everything you've shared in Library.
You can now open the omnibar with ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) to jump to a page or source. It is also listed under Keyboard shortcuts.
There's now Syndicator for Chrome.
The extension allows you to subscribe to websites and share pages with your followers.
Changed the app's visual style quite a bit: cleaner headers, calmer tabs, softer controls, and less dashboard-y chrome across Feed, Library, Social, and Sources.
Also fixed a bunch of rough edges. Reader should behave better on mobile, source health is clearer, YouTube embeds are less weird, and analytics/user identity tracking should be more reliable now.
Still very much beta, but the app should feel quieter and more like something you can actually read in for a while.
I did a bunch of optimization and polishing, plus built a new icon.
I'm thinking about these features:
1. Chrome extension: easily follow feeds on the website you're reading now
2. Newsletters via email ingestion: send or forward emails to Syndicator and read newsletters in the app
3. Smart digest: use ranking and clustering we have to produce a daily digest of the most important news for you
4. Integrations: send articles to third-party apps like Obsidian, Notion, Readwise, Pocket.
Thank you everyone, really excited to see all of you using it.
Feel free to email me at yury@molodtsov.me if you notice something.
Just fixed a number of regressions on the Social page, should be fine now. This was the hardest thing to test before the real launch and real users.