There is a Ideas markdown file in the RSC GitHub repo but I want to share on my blog some of the things currently in development :

• Better user management Users should be able to cancel and remove their accounts and cascade removal of their posts and replies.

• better moderation and governance for feeds

creating an open publishing system is easy, moderating it is a pain in the A, so before this goes into a direction I don’t want I want to be able to have the tools to moderate feeds the system ingest.

I want to be able to differentiate an RSS feed from a compatible textcasting instance and RSS feeds added by users.

Currently, there is no difference between a user a a “remote user” representing an RSS feed subscribed by a user, not all feeds are textcasting feeds so we need a way for admins to decide which other instance they federate to, think subscribe bidirectionally and users added RSS feeds.

If/when an item comes from a remote feed I want to be able to moderate it, hide it, remove it, block the source if needed.

Inevitably someone will use one the demo sites to publish unwanted content or subscribe to a dubious feed just to see How it goes…

• Gated community Currently registration is open and users can even make temporary posts to try the app, these guest users without a formal registered account are wiped periodically unless they verify their email registration.

I want this to be configurable, each instance will have different requirements, RSC need to come up with tools to help operator handle an instance.

• Better enclosure support Right now the system doesn’t support enclosure (podcasts) obviously the underlying tech support it, it’s RSS after all but the web front-end doesn’t know what to do with it, I want a shiny play button where needed and the ability to properly display media elements.

• Better integration with YouTube, Funkwhale, SoundCloud, Spotify A link from there should display an embedded player and fallback to link if no JS

There is probably a tons of things I’m not including here, my brain is fried today.