RSS: seven signals per article, each one a link to the conversation

The RSS view used to know three things about an article: Facebook, Reddit and Pinterest. It knows seven now, and none of the new ones depends on a quota that can run out.

• Bluesky: every post that links the article, with its likes and reposts summed, and a link to the biggest one.
• Coverage: how many other outlets in our feeds ran the same story in the last three days. For news this is the strongest signal there is: a story twelve outlets repeat in six hours is exploding whether or not the networks say so yet.
• Hacker News: points and comments, with a link to the thread.
• Comments on the article itself, with a link straight to them. Read through the publisher's own system (WordPress, Disqus or what the page declares), so the count is exact where it exists.
• Our radar: the posts we already hold that link the article, broken down by network in the tooltip: Bluesky, Reddit, Mastodon, Facebook and X. For X and Facebook, what those posts earned (likes, retweets, reactions, shares) is summed and shown, with a link to the biggest post.

Filter and sort by any of them

Under the time range there is a new row, "With a signal on": Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Bluesky, X, HN, Comments, Coverage. Switch one on and the list keeps only the articles with that signal, ordered by it. Switch several on to combine them. The sort menu has the same options if you want to filter by one network and sort by another.

What enters the score

Bluesky, Hacker News, coverage and the X and Facebook radar sums join the total engagement that ranks the list. Comments on the article are shown and kept in the history, but stay out of the score for two weeks while we measure whether they lead the other signals or only repeat them.