This month I built an internal hooks system to separate the core reader logic from platform-specific behavior. The feed processing pipeline now exposes 20+ named lifecycle points where extensions can hook in. YouTube and GitHub integrations, logging, metrics — all of them moved out into standalone extensions on top of the same machinery.

Down the line, the same surface could be opened up so anyone can write their own extensions for Feedstand.

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As somewhat of a tradition now, I've decided to extract the item deduplication logic into a separate package to make it more manageable. I've released it as Feedmatch.

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The frontend got another push: OPML import with a progress dialog, infinite-scroll pagination, channel favicons, and a per-source layout system with cascading overrides.

On the API side: rate limiting, auth on feed routes, a per-user source cap, and ID encryption so internal numeric IDs don't leak in URLs.