External authentication support for self-hosted Feeds Fun
We'd like to share that Feeds Fun now supports authentication via external services.
We moved away from the SuperTokens-coupled approach because it was too restrictive and resulted in vendor lock-in.
That means Feeds Fun should be much easier to self-host in multi-user mode. Simply put, you only need to pass two headers from your authentication proxy to the Feeds Fun backend — and you're good to go.
Single-user mode is still supported as well and does not require any authentication setup at all.
Check an example of a multi-user setup in our repo.
November 2025 in Feeds Fun
Hey everyone! This is the monthly recap of Feeds Fun.
- No releases were this month — we are busy in deep refactoring of the registration & authentication system — making it more user-friendly and extensible.
- 2.5M news entries were loaded, 27 new users registered.
October 2025 in Feeds Fun
Hey everyone! This is the monthly recap of Feeds Fun.
- We made 4 releases. Numerous stability improvements and bug fixes were introduced.
- Improved checkbox behavior in the GUI.
- 2.6M news entries were loaded, 46 new users registered.
Why Feeds Fun normalizes tags — and how
Read this post if
- You want to use Feeds Fun rules more efficiently.
- You're looking for a deeper understanding of how tags work in Feeds Fun.
- You self-host Feeds Fun and want to configure tag normalization.
- You are interested in tagging and approaches to it.
Tags are the real source of power in Feeds Fun. They allow you to rank, filter, and sort news how you want, saving your time and energy.
However, tagging is not as simple as it seems. There is no strict definition of what a tag is, nor is there a standard for naming them.
We may agree that a tag is a short string that describes the text or part of it. But…
- How short should it be? Is
this-text-is-about-modern-politics-in-central-asiaa tag or not? - What about
nowadays-politicsandmodern-politics— are they different tags or forms of the same tag? - Which one of the tags
book-review,book-reviews,books-review,books-reviewsshould we use?
There are numerous questions like that, and no clear answers.
The situation is even more complicated because Feeds Fun uses multiple independent sources of tags, called "tag processors", each of which may have its own rules and conventions for tags. Some tags even come from the feed itself and, therefore, may take any form. You can find more about tag processors in our README.
September 2025 in Feeds Fun
Hey everyone! This is the monthly recap of Feeds Fun.
- We made 3 releases. Numerous stability improvements and bug fixes were introduced.
- Work on tags normalization finally gives some visible results — you should see far fewer tag duplicates now. Tag variations like
book-reviews,books-review,books-reviews,book-reviewnow automatically normalize to one formbook-review. - 2.5M news entries were loaded, 37 new users registered.