Listing newsreaders creates barriers for some site owners to link to aboutfeeds.com

[genmon]

The problem: it's hard to imagine a newsreader developer linking to the site when their app is only one of three listed... or not listed before. BUT we want links from newsreader websites.

Related problem: I understand that some of the GPL community won't link to aboutfeeds.com because it lists non-GPL newsreaders. This is the problem in a nutshell: many communities will see something about the list of newsreaders as a barrier to linking.

Thinking out loud...

It would be possible to have different landing pages which promote different newsreaders.

I'm reluctant to put these on completely different URLs because this means that those URLs have to be supported forever. And that would make it hard to reorganise the site.

However, there could be something in the query string which slightly altered the homepage to promote a particular newsreader or collection of newsreaders, with the rest of the list accessible from a link.

This idea is dependent on #12 which is the process to list a large number of newsreaders.

[notabene]

What about explictly saying “reader This (GPL), reader That (non-GPL)” etc.?