Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk Thanks!

Let me see if I understand it. I’ll try putting it into my own words:

Microsub is a spec for a syncing system.

The server crawls feeds, handles feed parsing, and keeps the true copy of the subscriptions list (folders and feeds).

A client app can add/remove folders and feeds and can download the parsed feed data.

(There are additional features, but I think those are the basics. True?)

The two things I think an Evergreen user would still want are: 1) per-article read/unread status syncing, and 2) per-article starred status syncing.

@brentsimmons totally fair. In concept, a Microsub server acts like the server-side of a reader. It has “channels” which are like folders and in them will be feeds. It fetches feeds, parses them, and normalizes them. @aaronpk is the spec author.

@EddieHinkle Indeed. If you're already signed in on the phone I think that's a really elegant solution.

@manton @aaronpk's idea about sending a push notification to an existing logged in m.b mobile app could help around this issue 😉