If you arrived here from an old link, it probably pointed to reader.feedshow.com, the address of the original FeedShow web reader. This page explains what it was and where those links lead now.
What it was
FeedShow was a free online RSS reader launched in 2005. It worked in the browser, so you did not need to install anything, and it offered what people expected from a reader at the time: OPML import and export, folders, a “save item” list, print and PDF views, and a public directory of feeds. Its other selling point was money: FeedShow showed ads beside feed items and shared part of that revenue with publishers, at a time when most bloggers earned nothing from readers who never visited their site.
The reader also had a small set of “goodies”. The most linked of them was the OPML Builder, a page where you pasted a list of feed URLs and got an OPML file back. Blog posts, forum threads and university course pages linked to it for years.
Where the old links go now
| Old address | Now |
|---|---|
| reader.feedshow.com | The FeedShow home page |
| …/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-opml-from-rss-list.php | The new OPML Builder, which does the same job |
| …/subscribe.php?url=… | The subscribe helper, with the feed already filled in |
| …/show_items-feed=… (individual feed pages) | This page. Those feed pages were not archived and cannot be rebuilt. |
| …/monetize-rss | Our article Can you still make money from an RSS feed? |
Looking for a reader today?
The good news is that you have more choice now than in 2005. Start with our guide to the best RSS readers in 2026, or, if you want to host your own, with FreshRSS, Miniflux or Tiny Tiny RSS.