The nice thing about a blogroll is that it can become a feed reader, in a very small space. It's been on my blog home page for over a year, and I use it a lot, largely because I have to go to that page a lot to see how something I've written looks. Then I see that one of my favorite sites has updated, and I take a quick look to see what's new.
From a technical standpoint, it's hooked into a FeedLand instance where I have created a category called blogroll, and put all the feeds I want in my blogroll in that category. All I have to do to add a new one is subscribe to it in FeedLand, and click the blogroll checkbox.
Another developer wrote a post about using their blogroll as a feed reader, and I wanted to put my hand up and say yes — this is a good idea. People should do this.
I like it because it's real innovation in reading, something that imho has been lacking in the feed world. Lots more potential here.
And you're welcome to use my blogroll as your feed reader. I have put it on its own page but it's at a confusing location. Something to fix, maybe later today if I have some time or tomorrow. 🙂
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I see there are two Automattic Special Projects team repos for Feedland-related blocks: https://github.com/orgs/a8cteam51/repositories?q=feedland