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An introduction to Slixfeed.
Greetings to one and all and welcome to the official news resource of Slixfeed new bot!
I am delighted to make this initial public announcement of Slixfeed.
Slixfeed is a news aggregation software which currently functions only as a chat bot and is primarily intended for the XMPP communication network. It provides a convenient access to Journal and News sites.
Even though it is still in testing phases it performs well and is ready for production.
Slixfeed utilizes slixmpp to communicate with the XMPP network, and feedparser to parse syndication feeds.
The fashion by which Slixfeed is designed is to serve multiple people at the same time.
The purpose of Slixfeed is to be able to simultaneously serve hundreds and even thousands of people from a single instance, which would make anyone a news publisher, if one so desires.
Rich interface and PubSub are exclusive to XMPP.
Rich interface and PubSub are based upon XEP-0060 and Atom Syndication Format.
Slixfeed implements the instructions of Pubsub Social Feed (XEP-0472) of Mr. Timothée Jaussoin; for more information, read the Atom Over XMPP directive from Mr. Peter Saint-Andre.
The selection of proxy back-ends can be extended from proxies.toml, and is not limited to Invidious, Librarian, Nitter, ProxiTok, and Quetre.
As long as your status is not Available (i.e. Away, Busy, DND or Offline), the bot will not send updates to you.
Slixfeed offers a couple of interfaces.
The premier interface is the chat, from which commands are sent and news are received.
The additional interface which makes use of Data Forms (XEP-0004) and Ad-Hoc Commands (XEP-0050) offers a visual interface to control and interact with Slixfeed.
The visual interface is currently best accessible with Cheogram and monocles chat; both are available free of charge on the F-Droid software repository.
Other XMPP clients which support the visual interface are Converse, Gajim, Miranda NG, Movim, Poezio, Profanity, Psi and Psi+.
Screenshots of Cheogram and monocles chat interacting with Slixfeed.
Both, Ad-Hoc Command and Chat, interfaces are included.
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Slixfeed was made due to necessity and it has been intended to be hosted and utilized by as many people as possible.
Slixfeed was meant to be only a chat bot which sends only text, yet communications with edhelas, mirux, roughnecks, singpolyma and Thorsten have led this project to have an extensive set of features.
The Slixfeed project was started a year and eleven months ago, and its continuation and completion thereof were feasible thanks to Mrs. Laura Lapina.
I would also want to thank to Mr. Simone "roughnecks" Canaletti for hosting the Slixfeed site, in addition to testing Slixfeed and instructing the current development of Slixfeed.
Consequent development news will be published soon.
I hope, that Slixfeed would be useful to you.
Kind regards,
Schimon
