Sources and subscriptions
Sources are the feeds News Dashboard uses to discover articles. Your source subscription controls which feeds are active for your account.
Source kinds
| Kind | What it means |
|---|---|
rss_feed | A standard RSS or Atom feed. |
github_release_feed | A GitHub releases Atom feed. |
trending_feed | Hacker News or GitHub trending feeds. |
scraped_page | A custom parser for pages that do not expose a suitable feed. |
Default sources cover Python, AI/LLM, agents, cloud infrastructure, engineering, trending news, and repositories. They are seeded when the instance is initialized.
Managing sources
From the Sources page you can enable, disable, add, or remove sources. You can also inspect health information such as last checked time, last successful fetch, last error, fetched count, and inserted count.
Only RSS/Atom feeds are added by pasting a URL. GitHub release and trending sources are selected from predefined options.
Noise controls
Broad feeds are capped so one noisy source does not dominate the Today Feed. Typical caps are 15 to 20 items for broad trending feeds, 5 items for dense newsletter feeds, and around 50 items for curated blog feeds.
On multi-user instances, source subscriptions are per-user. Your changes affect your account only.