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Reading lists are now usable #225

Open scripting opened 11 months ago

scripting commented 11 months ago

There's a new release of the UI of FeedLand that covers a big new feature in the product -- reading lists, a list you can subscribe to.

There's a new sub-menu of the Tools menu, where you can look at a list of your reading lists (right now there are none), or other people's reading lists (my list has a few on it), and see a list of FeedCorps reading lists, a service we're starting that "primes the pump of the bootstrap" -- we'll try to provide some interesting lists for people to subscribe to, to get the idea out there.

You can also enter the URL of an OPML file and have FeedLand subscribe to it.

Big caveat

This is a new and internally complex feature, so you should expect there will be slowness in strange places, it may take a while before all the feeds in a list are functioning properly. But it does appear to be usable. So it's time to go forward with it.

I'm not really looking for testing right now, that'll come a little later. I just felt that with this feature more or less fully developed in plain sight in the UI, I should mention it, and if you're adventurous, and willing to really focus on it, then by all means give it a try.

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scripting commented 11 months ago

Here are some links that show you around the new stuff.

  1. Here's the info page for my first test list, which I just subscribed to on the A8C server.

  2. If you click on my name in the list of subscribers, you should see the list of all the reading lists I subscribe to.

  3. This is the info page for the art feeds list.

  4. Click on the river link to see all the recent news items from feeds in the list.

  5. Back up and click on the feed list link to see all the feeds in the list.

Everything is very fast!

scripting commented 10 months ago

Just found and fixed a serious bug in reading lists.

First the fix, only necessary if you're subscribed to any reading lists --

  1. Choose My Reading Lists from Reading Lists sub-menu of the Tools menu.
  2. Slowly uncheck and check each of the items on the page, to cause the feeds to be unsubscribed and then re-subscribed. Wait one second between each of the clicks.

That's it. By re-subscribing, it will correctly encode the categories associated with each of the feeds.

Prior to the fix, you wouldn't see items from a reading-list feed in your News pages. Now they should come through. :smile: