How to Follow or Subscribe to Frontend Dogma Updates
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Frontend Dogma is a daily-updated web development news and tools site, and you can follow it in three main ways: RSS feeds (including a paid main feed with exclusive news at $1/month), Mastodon, and Bluesky. The free option is to browse the site directly or use its standard feeds; the paid option adds exclusive news to the main feed. There is no indication on the site that any of these channels require a login beyond whatever the individual platforms themselves require.
The subscription channels
| Channel | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Main RSS feed | Exclusive news, in addition to the standard updates | $1/month |
| Other RSS feeds | Updates by topic | Not stated as paid |
| Mastodon | Posts and updates | Not stated as paid |
| Bluesky | Posts and updates | Not stated as paid |
| Website | Daily-updated entry list with sources and topics | Free to browse |
The site describes the main feed as carrying "exclusive news" and prices it at only $1/month. It also points to "various RSS feeds" for staying up to date on all topics, which implies topic-specific feeds exist alongside the main one. The page evidence does not list the individual feed URLs or the Mastodon and Bluesky handles, so you'll need to pick those up from the site itself.
How the site itself is organized
If you'd rather not subscribe to anything, the homepage works as a reverse-chronological news list. Each entry shows:
- A title, often with a source abbreviation in parentheses (for example,
( sea ),( str ),( fro )) - A date, such as "Oct 3, 2026"
- An entry number, such as 23563
- Topic tags, such as
fundamentals,career,wordpress,accessibility,legal,wcag,ai,history,standards,firefox,browsers
That tag structure is what makes the topic feeds useful: if you only care about, say, accessibility or browser releases, a topic feed filters out everything else.
A note on link preservation
Frontend Dogma preserves its links using the Wayback Machine and asks readers to donate to the Internet Archive to support that work. This matters if you're following the site for research or historical reference: links in older entries are more likely to still resolve than on a typical news aggregator, because they're archived rather than left to rot.
Choosing between the options
- Want everything, including exclusives, and don't mind $1/month: subscribe to the main feed.
- Want free, topic-filtered updates: use the topic RSS feeds.
- Prefer social platforms: follow on Mastodon or Bluesky.
- Just want to browse occasionally: read the homepage directly, using the topic tags to scan for what's relevant.
The site's content spans articles, videos, and books, plus people, projects, and processes, drawn from web development and design. Coverage reaches back to the 1990s, so it's a reasonable single source if you want both current news and historical context in one place.