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@tedder to demonstrate: Yeah, you do not have to include messages. But any format that is powerful enough to include the metadata can be utilized for that and then you...

@reednj RFC 5005 describes a mechanism to link together several physical documents that form one logical document. It is not that hard it seems, as long as the first document...

@reednj I see a problem with your example as it does not give URLs in the source, only nicknames. In reality, you would need the URL.

@reednj I am not familiar with yaml. How can you do namespaces in yaml? As far as I see, you would need namespacing for forwards compatibility.

reednj could you explain how a format can be extensible if you do not have namespaces without basically ignoring everything in the file that is not in the default namespace?...

@mkody as I said, twtxt can be an input format for an already existing representation, like Markdown. Try http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/twtxt2atom out and you might see what I am proposing. @Benaiah what...

There is a standard for syncing following lists already. It is called OPML and supported by Mozilla Thunderbird and a lot of feed readers. Why not use that?

@timofurrer OPML is supported for syncing following lists by Amarok, Bamboo, Feedly, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Thunderbird, Newsbeuter, Podget, Tiny TIny RSS and lots of other programs.

@timofurrer what are your criteria for “good” if they are not among “it works”, “it is interoperable” or “it is widely implemented” ?

@buckket if you do not care about compatibility, you could just do it like newsbeuter, which consumes OPML and a $HOME/.newsbeuter/urls file where each line is a URL to a...