Finding new interesting and engaging feeds is challenging. Alluri.ng is small site that was built to solve this problem by deferring to the wisdom of the crowd. Once every few days, a random subscriber to the atom feed is invited to share a feed that they personally think is interesting or well written. This feed is then shared with all subscribers so that they can consider subscribing to it. In this manner, the goal of the project is that good feeds will get recommended to more readers and that feeds will get shared across a wider range of readers than might have normally encountered them. It’s also expected that not every feed that is recommended will be a good choice for subscription, the hope is that enough are that the recommendations are worth reading.

To subscribe and have a chance to submit a post, all you have to do is go to https://alluri.ng and subscribe with the feed url on that page.

I wrote alluri.ng because reading feeds from blogs has been a much more enjoyable experience than using an algorithmic feed. If you need convincing of the merits, the ability to get an understanding of an author over many posts helps develop a more well rounded sense of what they are writing and the intention behind their words. Additionally, if you like an author, chances are that you will enjoy most of their posts rather than just the ones that are popular enough to get surfaced in an algorithmic feed.

The overall goal of this project isn’t to be big but rather a small community of individuals sharing blogs that they enjoy and that’s how I’ll judge the success of it. If you have any feedback or encounter any bugs, feel free to send it to [email protected].