Show HN: An alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content

Developer here .. I am excited to announce the beta launch of NEWS and RUMORS .. https://newsandrumors.com/

I have been solo developing NEWS and RUMORS for the last year with the goal of improving and simplifying content discovery and providing a way for lesser known bloggers and content publishers to reach a much larger audience.

There is so much great content on the internet that gets lost or never found because the search engines, news readers and news aggregators all feature and focus on the same high traffic sources, many of which write articles based on content from the same professional newswires and press releases.

I want to give readers a lot more control over the content they consume and the format of how it is presented.

To do this I developed a high performance search engine using a very clean and highly customizable low-bandwidth user interface for searching and displaying content acquired through an extensive modular-designed indexing system.

There will be a lot more that NEWS and RUMORS will offer as I continue its development, but it is a fully functional and beneficial service right now that I hope many people will enjoy!

## OVERVIEW

NEWS and RUMORS provides fast and simple access to a large amount of diverse content from a wide variety of sources while focusing on user privacy.

I created NEWS and RUMORS because I wanted a news and content search engine that does not show me advertisements as search results, does not track everything I do, does not only show content from high traffic sites, and lets me decide what content I want and do not want to see and how I want to see it.

The "Popular" search results (default home page) currently contains a variety of hand-picked sources because there is not enough traffic yet to generate an accurate list, but that will change once more people start using the site.

## FEATURES

- Discover great content from sites other services ignore

- Search, read and save your favorite sites, topics and searches

- Fast and low bandwidth web interface

- Personalize search results

- Multiple site theme options and search layout options

- Passwordless login only requires email

- No user tracking with focus on user privacy

- Read what you want, when you want, how you want

## SCREENSHOTS

- Light Theme: https://i.imgur.com/q2yn3tp.png

- Dark Theme: https://i.imgur.com/1gkwFtb.png

## QUICK SEARCH DOCS

- limit search results by domain = @domain.com

- limit search results by topic = #topic

- limit search results by feed = .domain-com-blog

- limit search results by exact word = _word

- limit search results by string = string

NOTE: You can combine the above search methods to create more complex searches.

## DIRECT URL EXAMPLES

You can quickly read many sites by simply adding their domains using this URL format ..

- https://newsandrumors.com/s/github.blog

- https://newsandrumors.com/s/bbc.com

- https://newsandrumors.com/s/wired.com

- https://newsandrumors.com/s/npr.org

- https://newsandrumors.com/s/wsj.com

You can quickly view results for any topic using this URL format ..

- https://newsandrumors.com/development

- https://newsandrumors.com/creative

- https://newsandrumors.com/react

- https://newsandrumors.com/python

- https://newsandrumors.com/marketing

- https://newsandrumors.com/saas

- https://newsandrumors.com/fortnitegame

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I am building NEWS and RUMORS for people like us.

You can help me make it better by sharing your comments, suggestions and criticisms!

Thank you! Good job on your site as well! I really like clean and simple layouts.

> Um it's shouldn't really be down when you show it to people

Everybody gets hugged when they front page on hacker news, it is a stress test all on its own. There is no reason to be rude about it. FWIW It seems to be back up now.

It is actually not intentionally offline nor are the servers overloaded.

I am guessing there is configuration limit somewhere that triggered it, but I am looking into it now.

Thank you for letting me know and for the screenshot!

> wasn't being "rude" about it.

If we look at your statement, was there anything constructive?

> Um it's shouldn't really be down when you show it to people

If you say yes, then you are implying that the OP is stupid and didn't realize his website should be up when sharing it.

If you say no, then why did you say it?

A neutral statement devoid of feelings would be, "It looks like your site got the hug of death"

A kinder way to phrase it would be "Congrats on the launch! Looks like it wasn't able to handle the HN hug."

But you phrased it in a negative way, and that IS rude.

>Thank you.

You are welcome.