Shuhaku: What Did They Say? by Brady Dale and David Floyd
Channel: Our Networks
Date: 27/04/2021

People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn't use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would, but they wouldn't. Something else is needed. Shuhaku is Levantine Arabic for "What did they say?" It's a news and blog aggregator meant to help people find the fresh information that they will find the most interesting and useful. It's about text. It's about the galaxy brain. It's not about fame, and it's not about vitriol. Shuhaku is a news aggregator that's designed to be just social enough.

It has four panels: a front page that shows the world what all the users are most interested in at any given moment. Inside, it has a classic feed reader aggregating from RSS. It has a social panel that shows you what other accounts you've linked to are reading. Users also have a limited number of votes each day to boost content to the select panel, which runs on shares, votes and each users social graph. That's where stuff gets personally curated. It also has comments but they work like encrypted chat, they are only readable by linked accounts. There are crucial limitations; emoji will be clutch.

Brady Dale: https://bradydale.com

David Floyd: https://davidfloyd91.github.io

Our Networks: https://ournetworks.ca