Better description for "importance" setting

kickscondor / fraidycat

Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.

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Better description for "importance" setting #202

Open link2xt opened 3 years ago

link2xt commented 3 years ago

Before you start.

[x] I have checked the Rejected Features page.
[x] I have searched the issue tracker for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success.

My great idea for Fraidycat is: Current descriptions for "Occasional", "Sometime" and "Rarely" don't tell what the difference is. I guess that the difference is in the update period, but without numbers I have no way to decide whether I want to put my feeds into "Rarely" or "Occasional". And if I put all my feeds into 5 different importance categories, am I supposed to click through all the tabs periodically?

The idea is to make descriptions more clear, and maybe reduce the number of categories to 2 or 3 if there is no real difference between them.

I have found related issue #42 with an answer

And, no, there's no timer helping you check weekly - it's up to you to regulate yourself and decide what these 'importances' mean to you.

but why not use tags then?

link2xt commented 3 years ago

Screenshot also shows that importances were "daily", "weekly" etc. at some point. Not sure if new importances correspond to those directly or not.

kickscondor commented 3 years ago

Importance is organizational and just hints three things:

Which feeds are fetched first.
Which feeds are hidden from view.
The tab for each tag will be colored according to the status of 'Real-time' follows.

Importance is not a fixed number. It acts as a gradient: https://twitter.com/glitchyowl/status/1285757728049094656

The reason I moved away from 'daily', 'weekly', etc - is because every follow is now likely updated at least once a day. This keeps information current for when you actually decide to view the follows under that 'importance'.

Real-time is definitely treated different from the others. In the future I hope to leverage this more.

rakoo commented 3 years ago

Thank you @kickscondor for this extension, it has sparked a new interest in RSS in me and has completely eliminated the FOMO I have with traditional readers ! I'm slowly evolving my use of the web to go towards Slow Web, such that I don't need to check every 5 minutes if something happened. Fraidycat is very good for that.

It's only since I've seen your comment that I understand the idea behind segregating the different feeds. Typically there's a feed that is uptaded daily but I don't want to read it everyday, only when I'm bored; that's why I put it in the "Sometime" category. I believe this new system should be visible from the README.