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BoredReading
A hosted discovery site that collects new long-form posts from hundreds of personal blogs every hour, with votes, categories and a reading list.
boredreading.com/Active
Front page on 2026-10-26 shows articles found hours earlier; site running since 2023 (footer); Show HN 2026-08-01. (checked 2026-10-25)
In RSS readers
Where it stands apart
- Do you need an account to use it? optional account (21% of 19 others)
- What does a reader put into it? nothing: the maker picks the sources (5% of 19 others)
- What decides which items you see first? votes, coverage counts, or social signals (11% of 19 others)
- Is reading private, or shared with other readers? social is central (follows, likes, votes) (5% of 19 others)
- Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? yes, third-party analytics or ad trackers (11% of 18 others)
- Where do you mainly read the article itself? on the original site (it links out) (11% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (95% of 19 others)
- How is the main thing licensed? proprietary or closed source (58% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? non-developers (79% of 19 others)
- How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? its own account, or the platform's cloud (iCloud, Chrome sync) (68% of 19 others)
- Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML? not applicable (no subscriptions) (60% of 15 others)
- Where do you mainly use it? website or web app run by the maker (53% of 19 others)
- What does a regular reader pay? nothing, and no ads (50% of 18 others)
Not documented
The public sources we read don't say:
- What's the most AI does to what you read? (pick the first that applies)
Nearest neighbors
- Cutthroat News 73% of 15 shared answers match
- Lectura 73% of 15 shared answers match
- RSScal 71% of 14 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue 'Made for nerds, by a nerd'; no pricing or ads seen. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | no, it needs the maker's servers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | stands apart optional account Browse freely; sign up to vote and keep a reading list. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | non-developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed Aggregates blogs; sources labelled RSS Feed, links carry utm_medium=rss. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a reader put into it? | stands apart nothing: the maker picks the sources Its own blog list; readers can suggest blogs. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What decides which items you see first? | stands apart votes, coverage counts, or social signals Recent, Popular (votes) and Random filters. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What's the most AI does to what you read? (pick the first that applies) | Not documented Posts carry categories like #AI and #history; how they are assigned is not stated. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? | its own account, or the platform's cloud (iCloud, Chrome sync) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML? | not applicable (no subscriptions) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly use it? | website or web app run by the maker | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a regular reader pay? | nothing, and no ads No pricing or ads seen. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is reading private, or shared with other readers? | stands apart social is central (follows, likes, votes) Votes and curators. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? | stands apart yes, third-party analytics or ad trackers Home page loads Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly read the article itself? | stands apart on the original site (it links out) Direct links out; an optional read mode exists. | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Web page · boredreading.com/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · boredreading.com/curators · collected 2026-10-26
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