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Community for Free Games (forum.uncomfortable.business)

Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.

It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.

Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.

!freegames@forum.uncomfortable.business

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[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's nice. Just as a suggestion, consider adding itch.io too. There are lots of good and free games, too.

Added it, since it was an option. It uh, made a lot of posts, so you weren't kidding about lots of free games.

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I probably wouldn't have done that myself. I love browsing itch.io but I don't want an otherwise useful feed to be clouded with a ton of lower quality/incomplete games.

Of course that's not to say they're all low quality or incomplete.

Yeah the first run backfill was noisy, but I'm inclined to leave it there unless it gets just way too loud. If it starts making the feed just noise and junk it'll get yanked.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder what you think of using https://docs.freestuffbot.xyz/ as a source instead?

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah man! Awesome, thank you!

[-] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nice but there is a bug: The posts are shown as pure html

Yeah, I noticed that.

It's on my to-do list for next week since I should have time to sort that out/file a bug if it's something that's not a configuration error.

[-] jared@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

With a feeds client

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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