Feeddit now has digg topics support
The first thing to come out of githorde is full support for individual topics from Digg, along with some nice speed improvements too. I uploaded the improvements last night so lets check them out.
Topics
If you go to the Topics Page you’ll see a list of all the topics that are currently on Digg, this is fresh from Digg so if they change or add any topics, the new ones should show up automatically (as long as they don’t change or break their api).
Each link on that page is an atom feed of the 100 latest popular stories in that topic, with all the usual goodness (direct link to the story, full description, submitter name, comment and digg count and mirror) in the form: http://feeddit.com/topics/apple.atom
I’ve not added any personalization, feeddit doesn’t use any kind of database, and I’d like to keep it that way, so if you want, say, everything except political news then you’ll have to subscribe to every other individual topic.
To make this a little easier I’ve created this OPML file with every topic in it, just import that into your feed reader and delete the ones you don’t like.
Other goodies
I’ve also added a few other bits and pieces. All of the pages are nicely cached, to save my server and Digg’s API from melting, so there is no need to push it through Feedburner anymore, you can subscribe directly to the feed: http://feeddit.com/feed.atom, this will be useful for anyone using the feeddit feed as a service on their own webapps.
There is also a spanky new open source information page with information about contributing and where to get the source code from.
It’s all still a work in progress, feel free to make suggestions, or even just fork the project and build the suggestions yourself, there is a list of TODOs in the readme file if your stuck on how you can help: http://github.com/andrew/feeddit/tree/master
Plus if you want to keep very up to date with feedit you can now follow feeddit on twitter at http://twitter.com/feeddit, which will contain service updates as well as details of any commits to github.
There is an iPhone web clip icon too, just for niceness.
