For a few years, typing feedshow.com led nowhere useful. First the reader went quiet, then the domain changed hands, and for a while it served pages that had nothing to do with feeds. If you were one of the people who used FeedShow back in the late 2000s, we owe you an explanation.
We are a small independent team, and we are not the people who built the original reader. We took over the domain because thousands of pages around the web still link to it: tutorials that recommend its OPML Builder, old blog sidebars with a “subscribe with FeedShow” button, a few lines in Wikipedia. Letting those links end in a parking page felt like a waste.
What you will find here
FeedShow is now a site about reading the web by feed. That means three things:
- Guides for people who have heard of RSS but never quite set it up, and for those who used Google Reader and want something similar today.
- Honest comparisons of readers: web services, apps and the ones you can host yourself.
- Small tools that run in your browser. The first one is a new OPML Builder, at the same address as the old one, so those old tutorials work again.
Why bother with RSS in 2026
Because it still works, and because the alternatives have become worse at the one thing a feed does well. Social networks decide what you see. Newsletters fill your inbox. A feed reader shows you every new post from the sites you chose, in order, and nothing else. No account with the publisher, no tracking, no algorithm.
We will publish at our own pace, a few articles a month, and we will keep the old links pointing somewhere sensible. If you have a question you would like us to cover, write to us.