About

What this is

There is no newsroom here, and nothing on this site is reporting. No headline was written by us: a card is the publisher's own headline, image and summary, as their feed supplies them, and opening it takes you to their page rather than back to ours.

The writing that is ours is about method rather than about today — a club page's short account of how we cover that club, and pages like this one. None of it describes events, so none of it can go stale: what moves is the feed underneath, and it moves without us.

Where the stories come from

Every club draws on the same five shared sources — BBC Sport, The Guardian, Sky Sports, saved Google News searches and YouTube — reading whichever of them actually publish about that club, so a source that does not cover a club is not named on its page. YouTube means the club's own channel where there is one, and talkSPORT's club channel. Each club then adds the outlets that cover it specifically: its own site, the local paper, and the fan sites worth reading.

The shared names on a club page are not a list somebody typed. They are read from the same configuration the fetchers use, so a page cannot advertise a source it does not actually have. Only the club-specific outlets are kept by hand, alongside the code that fetches them.

Duplicates are dropped by link, so a story carried by several outlets appears once, and a club holds the newest 60 stories. The roster spans more than one division, and which one a club is in decides only which table it appears in — every club gets a page on the same terms.

How a club page behaves

A club page is rebuilt at most once every five minutes. That is deliberate: opening one does not send a request to every publisher, because readers share a fetch rather than each setting off their own. The refresh button on a page asks its sources again immediately, if you would rather not wait.

The filters above the grid narrow a page to news, video or official items, and the search box looks inside headlines and source names. If a page looks quiet, it is because the sources are quiet.

What it does not do

• No original reporting, and no rewriting anybody's headline.
• No accounts and no comments — there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to post to.
• No advertising.
• Nothing about your visit is measured unless you say yes to it. Say no, and the analytics tag is never loaded, so no request reaches Google at all.

The data side of that — what is counted, and the two things that can be stored on your device — is set out on the privacy page.

Crests, names and affiliation

TerraceFeed aggregates publicly available RSS feeds. Not affiliated with any club.

Club names, crests and colours are here to say which club a page is about. They belong to the clubs and their holders, they are used to identify rather than to decorate, and nothing here implies a connection to — or approval from — any club, league or publisher.