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In this age of information explosion, there is so much content that everyone needs to pay attention to, Twitter updates, YouTube video updates, and news reports from mainstream media. If you go to various websites to browse information every day, the efficiency is too low, and the platform is also full of various marketing advertisements, as well as “useless content” recommended by machines to distract your attention.

Many people choose to use RSS subscriptions to improve the efficiency of information acquisition. Recently, some developers have also made a very interesting aggregation tool called Fraidycat. Its principle is still RSS subscription, but the presentation method adopts a retro-style web page design, just like browsing a forum ten years ago.

Fraidycat supports subscriptions on mainstream social platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. You can click + to add the personal homepage of the person you follow, and then select the update frequency. Fraidycat will capture information according to the rhythm of daily, weekly, annual, and real-time updates. The reason for this setting is to avoid information overload. The content of some platforms may be updated infrequently, and you do not need to pay attention to it every day. There are also channels that “spoof” from time to time. You can put them in the categories updated every year. Just stay tuned.

As an RSS-like tool, of course, it also supports adding feeds directly. You can also import the subscription files of other RSS readers, and it will be automatically synchronized.

In Fraidycat, you can set emoji expressions for each group. You can set multiple groups for a feed. If you do not fill in, it will default to the home option. Most websites support automatic ID acquisition, and you can also customize the name.

The most distinctive feature of Fraidycat is the retro-style typography, which looks a bit like a forum or blog. There is an update curve next to each channel, indicating the update frequency of the channel. Click the box on the right to open the drop-down list, which is convenient for browsing each information. Under each group, you can view the content of each channel according to the update frequency, and click the menu on the right to select the sorting method. It also supports dark mode and looks very nice too.

Fraidycat currently has a Mac version, a Windows version, and an extension that you can open and use directly in your browser. If you’re also a little distracted by the sheer volume of information every day, try this retro RSS tool and get back to the days of forums.