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Suggestion: Add News posts to the launcher like the Jagex launcher has

Open DeeeeLAN opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

I assume they have a feed you can pull from, and they probably even include the header photo to use, but I don't know. But this might be a simple task that could make the launcher feel a bit nicer.

DeeeeLAN avatar Oct 04 '24 06:10 DeeeeLAN

The news posts are pulled from here:

RS3: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/latestNews.json?maxItems=6 OSRS: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/latestNews.json?maxItems=6&oldschool=true

Adding this should just involve some Svelte work, so if someone wants to do this before I eventually get round to it, I'll accept a PR. The main thing I'm unsure about right now is where you'd physically fit a news feed in the current layout - you'd have to change the page layout in Launch.svelte to make it work, but I'm sure there's a way of doing it.

Also, be aware that having a news feed will be a setting that's turned off by default. This is because Bolt should never make unnecessary web requests, especially ones that could be considered telemetry. So if the setting is turned off then the launcher should look roughly the same as it does now.

Adamcake avatar Feb 14 '25 10:02 Adamcake