What is Standard Site, and why is it useful? - Leaflet Lab Notes

The confusion about standard.site is that there are two distinct and different users. Those that use it as a database schema and those that use it as a new syndication format (like a Wordpress blog with a plugin). But HTML and RSS are views, whereas JSON doubles as both a storage schema and a view

leaflet reader should: - easily let you one-off longpost - aggregate bsky, rss, and standard.site post - let you take notes on everything, save anything to lists, feed into drafts - keep track of events u are rsvp'd to - let you subscribe to and participate in community/aggregators

why is this needed with standard site?

As an academic, this is also why I plan to move completely to @leaflet.pub for my website: powerful, easy to use and easy to customize, versatile, no maintenance, and most importantly, *you* keep full control of your data.

What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS Think of this a bit like: advanced RSS where publishers can see number of subscribers a way to subscribe without cluttering your email inbox and also find the blogs of... hilarybaumann.com/2026/07/23/what-is-standard-s…

We wrote a @standard.site explainer — what it is & why it's useful 📝✨ ~shared standards for longform publishing? ~a way to see what friends read & write? ~the atmosphere's hottest collab? yes yes & yes! Seeing lots of q's after Bluesky's new standard.site link card integration. Here's a TL;DR!

I made a reader for standard.site called "Standard Reader" Partially inspired by Google Reader (or what i remember of it) it provides a place to browse, discover, read and subscribe to standard site publications Also has some cool features like article dictation (I like to listen to longform)