| ▲ | jjordan 3 hours ago |
| Wow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine. https://rssvault.org Password is vaultearly644988 Pardon the dust. There's an app tie-in that I'm almost done with too, a widget-first app that shows your RSS feed collections on your phone's home screen. It would really be great if we could start to bring about an RSS renaissance! |
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| ▲ | eleventen 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I generally want a posts/day count on any feed I subscribe to. Many of these are content mills with 20+ posts per day I have no intention in sifting through. |
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| ▲ | jjordan 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yeah I'm focused on including more of the Indie Web. I include BBC, NYT, etc. because people expect it, but the directory already has some real depth worth exploring. And each feed details page has a cadence rating to tell you how often they post. So grouping a firehose with a specialty blog that posts 6 times a year probably isn't a good idea, but an OPML full of blogs that post ~monthly would be a delight, IMO. |
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| ▲ | sixtyj 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice. I have sneaked in. Suggestions: White or almost white text would be better. Make “Add” button visible on homepage. Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds - a lot of people have opml xml exports from Google Reader so they can give it to you. Processing info would be nice so I as a supplier would immediately know how useful I was. Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part than homepage. |
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| ▲ | jjordan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hey thanks for taking the time. "White or almost white text would be better." -- There is some white text, headers and headlines mostly. Did you find the lack of contrast difficult to deal with? "Make “Add” button visible on homepage." -- you mean like in the search results? That's a fine idea. "Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds" -- I've been toying with how to handle OPML imports. Definitely a feature to come on the app, but I fear with mass submission on the vault I would be inundated with feeds, and the curation aspect would suffer. I want quality over quantity. But maybe there's a happy middle ground somewhere. "Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part" -- yeah I guess this might be helpful to someone who doesn't know what RSS is, but then they probably aren't visiting anyway lol I'll give it some thought. Appreciate it. Thanks again. |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Claude? (Not judging, just testing my radar) |
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| ▲ | jjordan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, with several months of iteration. I've wanted to build this for years but to get it to the point where it's a quality destination is an effort beyond the time I would have been able to contribute. | | |
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