Bubbles 🫧 Blog

Bubbles on the Fediverse 🦣 You might already know that every new article on Bubbles is also posted on the Fediverse by the **[@bubbles](https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles)** account. If you reply to any of these posts your comment shows up under the article on the Bubbles website. Articles with recent comments show up on the **[hot](https://bubbles.town/hot)** page. Naturally following the @bubbles account is not the intended way of keeping up with the small web. It posts over 500 entries…

You can now suggest category changes All incoming posts are automatically tagged with a fitting category. Bubbles uses a Naive Bayes classifier that runs locally on the server and does not send any data to third parties. The results are usually quite good, but sometimes posts are assigned the wrong categories. If you're signed in, you can now click any post's category label and suggest a different one. For now, two different people need to suggest the same category, and it will be changed. I…

Introducing Bubbles Briefing 📰 Yesterday, Cesar Aguirre [published a short post](https://canro91.github.io/2026/04/21/Aggregators/?ref=bubbles.town) with a simple wish. Blog aggregators should feel more like newspapers. You open one, read yesterday's news, reach the end, and come back tomorrow. Less endless scroll, knowing when you're done. I was not even finished reading, but my brain was already in implementation mode. That's how much I liked the idea! I already came up with measures to avoid…

One Month of Bubbles Bubbles turned one month old today. I launched it on March 21 with a short [Mastodon post](https://troet.cafe/@viermalbe/116297302547554995) (original in German): > ... So I built Bubbles. For me. And hopefully for a few thousand others too. On that evening just 4 weeks ago, writing "hopefully for a few thousand others too" was a joke. I put it there because I genuinely assumed this would be a personal tool that maybe a dozen people liked and used. 6,500 visitors in the…

Two new RSS feeds 🫧 Two small additions. **Full content feed** [`/feed/full`](https://bubbles.town/feed/full) is a variant of `/feed/new` that also includes the full article text for each entry, as long as the blog author put it into their own feed. Nothing gets scraped, so if the source feed only has a short summary, that's what you'll see in the `/full` feed too. I added this one to my feed reader, so I can quickly scan all new posts. **Personal feed** A personal feed is now also listed on…

Show Bubbles Votes on Your Own Blog A small thing I've been wanting for a while: you can now drop a snippet on your blog that shows the live Bubbles vote count for each post. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see it in action. The full guide lives at https://bubbles.town/embed but here's the short version: It's one line of HTML and a script tag: ``` <div class="bubbles-vote"></div> <script src="https://bubbles.town/vote.js" defer></script> ``` That's everything you need. The widget figu...

Five Lesser-Known Bubbles Features Due to awesome bloggers writing about Bubbles, it gained some traffic yesterday. So I wanted to highlight some features you might have missed. **1. @bubbles2** You probably know about [@bubbles](https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles), which posts every new entry to the Fediverse. But there's a second bot: **[@bubbles2](https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles2)**. It only boosts posts that have received 2 or more votes. Follow it if you want a curated stream o...

Awesome Updates for Bubbles 🫧 I haven't even started promoting Bubbles properly, but since launching last week I've already gotten some really nice feedback from you all. Thank you! If you like Bubbles, please spread the word. Bubbles lives and dies by word of mouth. 🫧🫧🫧 I've also been busy building since launch and wanted to quickly share a few new features: • Follow blogs: You can now follow blogs. The new "My" category shows the latest posts from all blogs you follow. • Your Favourite B...

Why I Built Bubbles 🫧 I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New voices don't find you there. What's been missing: a front page like Hacker News, but exclusively for personal blogs. No tech bros, no AI hype, no trendy startups. Just an endless stream of thoughtful blog posts, curated by real people. So I built Bubbles 🫧. For myself, first. And hopefully for a few thousand others too. https://bubbles...