search

scripting / feedlandSupport

A place to share and discover feeds.
14 stars 1 forks source link

Wednesday worknotes #28

Open scripting opened 1 year ago

scripting commented 1 year ago

Good morning!

I'm going to (Murphy-willing) finish up development on tweetfeed.org.

Remaining to be done:

  1. A way to turn off scanning. Either a command or just logging off.

  2. Add styles so it looks good on a tablet or a phone. ✔️

  3. Examples for the docs.

  4. Twitter and Facebook metadata. ✔️

  5. Set up a place for support questions for new users. ✔️

  6. Anything else that comes up.

FeedLand

I'm itching to get back to work on FeedLand. It's often good at this stage to take a step back and work on something else so you can get a fresh perspective on the product for the final stretch, which is where I feel we are at. I want to work mostly on performance and docs. And convert my various news products like mlbriver.com to FeedLand as the engine instead of a previous river product. Esp because baseball is heading into its home stretch now, 1.5 months till the playoffs.

This morning I raised the limit of new subscriptions per user to 250. I had hit the 100 feed limit myself. The limit was put there to give FeedLand a chance to scale up gradually, and I think it has done pretty well.

One thing I should point out -- I am still a relative newbie at SQL databases. I don't really know how they scale up, no real experience there. It's like having spent a career as a base guitarist and all of a sudden playing piano in a band. it's still music, but it's a different instrument. :smile:

I was glad to see that all but one of the feed from tweetfeed.org were already subscribed to in FeedLand. You guys are the best testers I've worked with, as a group, in a long time. Thank you. :boom:

scripting commented 1 year ago

I just made a huge number of changes to the CSS to make it look good on a phone.

Hopefully there were no side-effects for the display on a more sizable display on a tablet or desktop.

Confirmation would be helpful here. ;-)

scotthansonde commented 1 year ago

For me on http://tweetfeed.org, I first see the first screenshot, then after a second my twitter handle appears and the menu bar covers up the headline.

scripting commented 1 year ago

On what platform? Can I see a screenshot of what you see?

I'm not seeing this to be clear.

scotthansonde commented 1 year ago

@scripting Sorry, I was trying to reply on my iPhone and it looks like including images did not work. 🤷‍♂️ This is on mobile Safari on an iPhone 12.

IMG_0383

IMG_0382

scripting commented 1 year ago

@scotthansonde -- i know it doesn't look pretty but that's how i expected it to look.

scripting commented 1 year ago

I'm sorry now I see -- your name has pushed down to the next line.

gwthompson commented 1 year ago

I just tested twwetfeed.org on my iPhone 13 Mini and I am seeing the same thing Scott saw. On my iPhone 12 Pro Max it works correctly. I also checked both my iPad Pro12" and 11" and they looked fine. IMG_0065

scripting commented 1 year ago

@gwthompson -- it might be a little better now.

gwthompson commented 1 year ago

@scripting -- It does indeed look better now!

akaKenSmith commented 1 year ago

Back from a read trip, happy to do some catching up here, and I see that TweetFeed.org looks good on my iPhone 13 and on a fairly recent iPad model here.

scripting commented 1 year ago

Welcome back @akaKenSmith -- having your fresh perspective will be helpful in the days ahead. :smile:

scripting commented 1 year ago

New command -- Enable or disable? in the menu in tweetfeed.org.

image

Choose the command, you'll see a dialog asking if you want to disable scanning of your tweets.

If you say OK, it will do so. You will see a subtle change in the display, enabled's value will change from true to false.

Choose the command again to reverse the disabling.

This command was put in because it's certain to be the first question people ask.

scripting commented 1 year ago

A couple of items.

  1. There are docs for tweetfeed.org.

  2. There is a support repo, like here. I'll make each of you contributors there. Please watch the messages that people post there.

scripting commented 1 year ago

My tweetfeed feed is now public, so you guys are welcome to show people your feeds if you like.

http://scripting.com/2022/08/17/215752.html?title=wheresTheFeed

This is also on Twitter, exactly the same text, and it show up in the feed readers looking beautiful.

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/1560023637205438466

This turned into a really tight demo.

scripting commented 1 year ago

Still some work to do

image
scripting commented 1 year ago

Two problems --

  1. There should be a line break after the smiley.

  2. The t.co URL should have been dereferenced.

gwthompson commented 1 year ago

Using Feedland in Safari I do see a line break after the smiley but the t.co URL is not dereferenced. In NetNewsWire I also see the line break after the smiley and the t.co is dereferenced.

scripting commented 1 year ago

Aha! That's good -- easier to fix bugs in FeedLand.

The t.co dereferencing happens in tweetfeed.org. I just worked on it this week so it's pretty fresh. I'll look at it tomorrow morning.

Very productive day! :-)