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scripting / feedBase

A project to get feeds into a base.
MIT License
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Saturday work #25

Open scripting opened 6 years ago

scripting commented 6 years ago

Next items on my feedbase todo.

  1. Handle feeds that have special characters, such as feeds in German or Chinese, and

  2. Merge duplicates, two or more URLs that point to the same feed.

  3. Also want to take a look at display on phones and tablets.

I'm going very slow with the changes. This is a long-term project, it's important to get it right. Very different from the first time around with RSS apps when everything was a rush.

If you have any problems you'd like to report, post a comment below.

FTWynn commented 6 years ago

Not a problem, but something I thought was interesting you might like to know:

Moving my OPML to feedBase made me realize how many dead feeds there were, and Feedly had never given me any notice about them. Sometimes Feedly figured out where to go anyway like with Lifehacker and Buzzmachine, but other times the feeds just look like they're silent when they actually been moved (and don't resolve anymore). I've been doing some hunting since to figure out where the sites have moved the feeds to.

Thought it was worth mentioning in case you wanted to better surface dead links or why they fail in feedBase. It took moving to Inoreader to get a good list and reason for the dead ones for me (with the bonus of being able to subscribe to an OPML list now!).

scripting commented 6 years ago

I understand that there are a lot of dead links to feeds in our OPML files.

What we do right now is put them in the database, but they don't show up in your subscription list.

We keep checking them periodically so if it's just a temporary outage, it'll fix itself.

Now, is there a feature you'd like to see in feedBase? I'm interested in ideas, it's a good time to share them.

FTWynn commented 6 years ago

Only that I'd like a little more visibility on feeds that don't work or are having trouble. Inoreader does a good job of putting them in red and showing the error code... so something like that would be helpful.