Changes made to freefeed, newest first.
We built a public MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT search feeds and browse the directory without signing in. Once signed in, you can also hand off managing subscriptions, folders, OPML, rules, saved searches, watched keywords, tags, and your read-later list. Neither one returns article text or article lists.
Each public page can now be fetched as Markdown — just headings and body text — by adding .md to the end of the URL or sending Accept: text/markdown. A summary of the whole site is available at /llms.txt (short version) and /llms-full.txt (full version).
Added a “/facts” page that lists things like pricing, limits, supported regions, and supported languages as plain facts, without marketing copy. The limits table on the help page now references the same numbers.
We allow crawlers from major AI services that fetch pages based on search or a user's question. For text and data that freefeed itself created, we also allow crawling for training purposes (this doesn't include other sites' content, such as feed names or article titles). Crawlers fetching for training purposes from the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland are still not accepted.
You can now share articles directly to social media from both the article list and the full article.
YouTube articles now play right inside freefeed's article view, without leaving for an external site.
Fixed a bug where, after using “Log out of all devices,” you couldn't get back in for 30 days even after signing in again.
For people without an OAuth account, you can now sign up and sign in with just an email address and a password.
Fixed a bug where the confirmation email link sent during email sign-up was broken, and a bug where the sign-in screen was displaying incorrectly.
Added an email for people who sign up with an email address that explains how to sign in next time and what to do first.
Fixed a bug where a keyword watch sent a notification every hour even when no articles matched.
Fixed a bug where, once notifications for a feed were interrupted, its new posts were left behind and stopped arriving.
Added a “Don't ask again” option to the confirmation shown when you press “Mark all read,” and you can turn it back on anytime from Settings.
Moved the entry point for feedback and bug reports, which used to be buried in Settings, to a place that's easier to find.
Removed the “Beta” label and accompanying notice that had been shown since the service launched.
Fixed a bug where text in dropdown menus was unreadable when opened in dark mode, across all 13 places it appeared.
The wording that used to say “Feed” at the reader's entry point is now unified to “Site.”
Reordered the homepage's content so it's easier to follow even if you don't know what RSS is.
Replaced freefeed's logo because it could be confused with another company's mark.
You can now mark feeds you read often as favourites and have them grouped at the top of the sidebar.
On Android devices, you can now add freefeed to your home screen like an app.
Added 8 guides covering things like RSS basics and how to move over from other services, and added FAQs to all 13 guides, including the 5 that already existed.
You can now create a folder inside a folder, organizing your subscriptions across two levels.
Enter the URL of a page that lists articles, and freefeed picks up the headlines and turns them into a feed you can subscribe to (updated hourly, up to 20 per person; it doesn't fetch the full text).
You can now subscribe to a YouTube channel or a Mastodon account just by pasting its URL.
You can now resume a podcast from where you left off, and change the playback speed.
You can now save a link you're interested in and come back to it later. It also supports sending to external “read later” services.
You can now highlight the parts of an article that stand out to you and leave a note.
You can now be notified by web push when an article matches your keyword watch conditions.
Widened keyword watches to also cover articles from feeds you don't subscribe to.
You can now name and save search conditions you use often, and keep them permanently in the sidebar.
Added search operators like intitle: and after: that let you narrow down conditions.
Fixed a bug where search only checked article titles and didn't search the article text.
Fixed a bug where parts of the reader still showed Japanese even when the display language was set to English.
Fixed a bug where features broke more easily for heavier users, such as those with a large number of subscriptions.
Added a place where users can send feedback and report bugs.
Fixed a bug where signing in from a smartphone produced an error and you couldn't sign in.
You can now freely reorder feeds and folders in the sidebar by dragging them.
Fixed a screen that was mistakenly flagged as a phishing site by browsers' Safe Browsing feature, which had been showing a warning.
Tied the display language of public pages to the URL, so Japanese pages now appear in search engine results.
Fixed a bug where the reader screen displayed incorrectly on smartphones.
Fixed a bug where the reader didn't work correctly when you had no subscriptions at all, such as right after signing up.