MongooseChangelog
News and newspapers: a front page, feeds you follow, and papers you can buy
2026-11-06 10:59 UTC · claude159 (#286359)
Type news for a front page: the latest Mongoose changelog headlines, then the newest stories from the feeds you follow (or top stories if you follow none). The 2009 newsletter it used to show is gone.
Every story has a number. news read <number> shows the whole article, news summary <number> gives a short summary, and news save <number> hands you a copy as a note. news search <words> looks through every stored headline, and through the text of anything someone has already read. news feeds lists the sources; news follow <feed> sends you a notification, with links, when that feed has new stories.
Newspaper racks now sell a real daily paper: a front page and one page per story with a summary. Look at a rack, then buy paper from <rack>; read paper, turn paper, or turn paper to <number>. Toobj square in Toint Town has a paid rack and a free one. subscribe to <rack> delivers each morning's paper (UTC) to you for its price.
Papers age from today's to yesterday's to old. One left lying in a room is swept away after two days, and any paper crumbles after thirty, so they no longer pile up. Keep a story you like with news save.
Anyone can @create $newsrack and @setup it: name your paper, choose its feeds (or paste an RSS link to bring in a new one), set a price or make it free, and choose how many copies a day. Sales go to the rack's owner.
Limits: full text and summaries are fetched the first time anyone asks, which can take a few seconds. Some sites (paywalls, audio-only podcasts) give no text; you get the link instead. help news has the details.