FeedTree 0.7.0 has been released to the wild. Shortly, it is a peer-to-peer network for distributing feed, RSS and Atom, to all subscribers instantly. In contrast, new feeds will be pushed to a set of subscribers and they will then push to other subscribers in tree fashion. Instead of developing full-featured feed reader for FeedTree, just a proxy, ftproxy, has been developed.

Technically, FeedTree relies on a peer-to-peer overlay network namely Pastry and Scribe protocol running on top of that. I don’t know much about Pastry. All I know is just it is implemented in Java. I don’t hate Java and I don’t like Java too. It is too big for me to run a Java application on my laptop just to read feed faster than ever.

Pastry may be another promissing p2p network, but I believe in Kademlia and Distributed Hash Table that are already adopted in several BitTorrent client. Furthermore, I don’t care about client/server or p2p implementation, OpenDHT seems to be enough. It is scalable by just adding more DHT peer to help storing more information.

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