How it works
Seen it? It's gone next time
Nihil Novi works only on the sites you turn it on for. The rest of the page stays as it is: the logo, the menus, the search. Only the feed changes.
Turn it on for a site
On a site you keep coming back to, click the toolbar button, then "Turn on for this site". Chrome asks to let it see that one site.
Confirm the feed
It outlines the part of the page that's the feed. Confirm it, or point at one post yourself.
Come back later
A post counts as seen after a second on your screen. Next time, those are hidden. When nothing new is left, you get a kind word instead of the feed.
Hide a post after you've seen it once, or only after two to five visits. Nothing disappears while you're reading: what you see now is hidden from your next visit on.
Endless feeds
Give the endless feed an end
Some feeds are built never to run out. Each site has its own settings in the toolbar button, all optional.
A finite source
Open another address instead of the home page: your YouTube subscriptions, Hacker News' newest. A feed that ends.
Newest first
In a feed sorted by time, the first post you've already seen means everything below is older. Nihil Novi stops there.
Only from
Keep only posts from the people, groups or channels you choose: click a name in any post, or paste an address.
A daily limit
Minutes on the site, posts seen or pages opened. When it's used up, one "a bit more today" a day, then see you tomorrow.
With notifications on, it also tells you when a site's RSS feed has a post you haven't seen, so you don't have to go and check.
Privacy
What you read stays yours
On your computer
Everything Nihil Novi remembers is stored in your browser. There is no server and no account.
Fingerprints, not posts
It keeps short fingerprints of what you've seen, never the posts' text or addresses.
Nothing to track
No analytics, no ads. The only thing it fetches is a site's own RSS feed, if you turn notifications on. This site sets no cookies.
Questions
Good to know
Which sites does it work on?
Most sites with a list of posts: news sites, blogs, forums, Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube, X. It finds the feed by its repeating posts, with no special code for any site, so if it picks the wrong part of the page you can point at the right one. Facebook is the hardest: its posts often have no stable links, so edited posts can look new.
Does it block sites?
No. It never stops you from opening a site. It only hides what you've already seen, and if you set a daily limit, the feed (not the whole site) waits until tomorrow.
What if I want to see a post again?
Turn the site off and on in the toolbar button, or set "hide a post after you've seen it" to more visits. Turning a site off also forgets what you've seen there.
Does it work on my phone?
No, desktop Chrome only.
What does it cost?
Nothing: Nihil Novi is free, with no paid version. If it gives you back some time, you can support it on Ko-fi.