Use RSS Anyway
RSS Anyway replaces the old /news page, which was a prototype, with a more user-friendly version designed for everyone. This new tool allows users to find native RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds from any URL, even if the site does not clearly publish them. The focus is on enabling subscriptions rather than curation, making it easier for users to follow content directly from the open web.
- ▪The old /news page was a prototype and is now replaced by RSS Anyway.
- ▪RSS Anyway helps users find feeds from any URL, even if they are not clearly published.
- ▪The tool uses parsers and heuristics to identify feeds, rather than relying on AI.
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Record
| Original publisher | Ryanxcharles |
| Canonical URL | https://ryanxcharles.com/blog/2026-05-30-use-rss-anyway/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 13:08:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T13:29:38.069Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T13:29:38.069Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BynmjKAKAc0p |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
The old /news page is gone because it was a prototype; RSS Anyway is the real version, built for everyone. The prototype worked The /news page proved the point: the open web is better when you can follow URLs directly, without social media or recommendation feeds. But it was built around my sources, my database, and my assumptions. That made it useful for me and wrong for everyone else. The product is better RSS Anyway starts where the old page stopped. Give it a URL and it finds a native RSS, Atom, or JSON feed. If the site hides the feed or does not publish one clearly, it checks platform patterns, alternate links, common paths, sitemaps, and index pages. No LLM magic. Just parsers and stubborn heuristics.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ryanxcharles.
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