💡 Proposal: Persistent & Upgrade-Safe Customization for Tier 1 Countries and RSS Sources (Self-Hosted)

[vgtmxrz]

Hi 👋, First of all, thank you for the great project — it's a very solid foundation for global monitoring.

I’d like to propose an improvement specifically focused on self-hosted installations, where users may want to customize the system beyond the default configuration.

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1️⃣ Persistent Way to Add Custom Tier 1 Countries

Current Situation

It is currently possible to add new countries to Tier 1.
However, it requires modifying multiple files and configuration points.

This creates two main problems:

• 🔧 Changes must be made in several places
• 🔄 All modifications are lost after updates

For self-hosted users, this makes customization fragile and difficult to maintain.

Proposed Solution

Introduce a custom override mechanism, for example:

• A dedicated config file (e.g., custom.countries)
• Or a config/customcountries/ directory ignored by Git

The core idea:

Allow users to define additional Tier 1 countries in a single location that persists across updates.

This would allow users to monitor:

• Their country of residence
• A country of business interest
• A specific regional market

Without modifying core project files.

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2️⃣ Persistent Way to Add Custom / Local RSS Sources

Current Situation

RSS sources can be added, but:

• Changes require editing core project files
• Updates overwrite custom additions

For self-hosted deployments, this prevents:

• Adding local newspapers
• Adding niche industry feeds
• Adding private/internal RSS feeds
• Adding language-specific sources

Proposed Solution

Apply the same logic as with countries:

• A custom.sources file
• Or a /config/customrss/ folder

No core file edits required.

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🎯 Why This Matters

For self-hosted users, this would:

• Make customization upgrade-safe
• Reduce friction for advanced users
• Encourage local adaptation
• Improve long-term maintainability

It would also make the project more extensible and production-friendly for:

• Researchers
• Businesses
• Agencies
• Regional monitoring use cases

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Thanks again for the great project 🙌

[koala73]

Thank you for opening this discussion & for using World Monitor

It's the top thing for me on the roadmap, we shouldn't need to edit code to add feeds or parameter

It's a hobby project, this requires still some time to get to this end result, but we are super aligned