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My brain squirrels cannot sit still long enough to focus on an ordinary news/current affairs website. It's all so painfully slow and boring. There was (a long time ago) a java script wall of news from all over the world that updated in real time. It closed years ago and I never found anything similar. It was just a wonderful mosaic of headlines and stories that didn't sit still. The mosaic felt alive and if something caught your attention you better click on it before it turns into something else! You kind of see things like this in some movies, where they look at a wall of info on a big screen and everything is moving and updating. It's not waiting for clicks. You have to chase it! Is there anything like that or maybe a site that lets you construct a bunch of real time feeds that update constantly?

p.s. I realise that to many what I'm describing probably sounds like hell on earth but to my brain squirrels it would be heaven 🤣

(Update the first: Looks like the Feedbro Add-on in Firefox is the closest I'm going to get at the moment)

(Update the second: Thanks so much to geekwithsoul for finding that old javascript site I was talking about. I never thought I'd see it again. I've added a pic of what it looks like on my wide screen. Now that's what I call a wall of information ❤️)

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  • What you're looking for is probably a RSS feed reader.

    But seriously. Don't do that to your brain. It isn't heaven, also not for ADHD brains. Screens are very dangerous for us ADHD folks. The neverending circle of information will not satisfy your brain. I highly recommend you try to drastically reduce your screen time. You'll find that after even a short time away, the speed of the normal news cycle will be too much for you.

      • Leaving reddit was also one of the best things I ever did for my mental health. Joining this place has been such a positive thing ☺️

    • Thanks for your obviously well meaning reply but my brain has always worked this way. For decades... I play incremental online games half a dozen at the same time and watch news feeds that way too. Even before the web was born I would gather multiple tv's and have them play a whole array of programs simultaneously. I cannot watch movies in the cinema and I fast forward through everything I watch. I also watch almost any YouTube video at 2x speed. Not being able to flip between multiple sources constantly is a real and genuine struggle. I asked this question simultaneously to ChatGPT, by the way, and it agreed with you about RSS Feed readers 🙂

      • Yeah, you've trained yourself. I noticed after a while when I was binging stuff, that I hadn't even gotten what it was about. I had listened to hours of podcasts without retaining anything that was in them. You can un-learn those habits. Your brain works like that because you (and the world around you) have trained it that way.

        When's the last time you spent a day without a screen? Two days? A week? This is non-judgemental. I also have addiction patterns.

      • I asked chatgpt and it said you could become a computer if you eat a whole bag of microchips

      • "scrolling down post by post is such a dumb concept." It really is isn't it! 🤣

    • THAT WAS IT!!! Thank you so much 😁😁😁 Oh my goodness 😲 such a blast from the past. Also makes me realise that it wasn't moving all the time but it was size that indicated importance. Honestly I couldn't find this no matter how hard I looked. I was sure it was long gone. Wow...

      • No problem! It was a fave of mine years ago for many of the same reasons. I'd love a version that wasn't reliant on Google's news feed, because I like the format so much. I think the original went offline and the link I gave is a revived project - it now has options for making the block size different based on different factors.

  • THAT WAS IT!!! Thank you so much 😁😁😁 Oh my goodness 😲 such a blast from the past. Also makes me realise that it wasn't moving all the time but it was size that indicated importance. Honestly I couldn't find this no matter how hard I looked. I was sure it was long gone. Wow...

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