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Re: Show HN: EvalRSS – A Social RSS Aggregator

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Post by lostqubit » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #8

lostqubit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody can see which channels you're subscribed to but, yes, entries from all of the channels that have been entered into the website show up in the global feed.

tos ? porn rss? I'd like to have something like this where the up down votes started to put people into groups so that tribe A's likes were shared and tribe A's likes wouldn't affect the view of Tribe B, tribe C doesn't get affected by A or B and so on.

As long as it won't land me in prison for having it on my site, go wild. You can use the site for whatever you like.

And it's an interesting idea! I'm not sure my unsupervised learning skills are good enough to be able to do this without creating some grotesque filter bubbles. If you have some ideas, please feel free to send me an email! I'd love to learn more.

Email: dpb@evalrss.com

Re: Show HN: EvalRSS – A Social RSS Aggregator

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Post by lonk11 » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #8

lostqubit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody can see which channels you're subscribed to but, yes, entries from all of the channels that have been entered into the website show up in the global feed.

tos ? porn rss? I'd like to have something like this where the up down votes started to put people into groups so that tribe A's likes were shared and tribe A's likes wouldn't affect the view of Tribe B, tribe C doesn't get affected by A or B and so on.

That's exactly how my project https://linklonk.com works.

When you upvote an item, you connect to other people who upvoted that item. When you downvote - you disconnect from those who upvoted it. So those who upvote useful content for you, get more weight in your recommendations.

Coincidentally, I'm doing a show HN post for it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405643, so will be happy to answer any questions there (instead of hijacking this post).

OP, does EvalRSS list content in reverse-chronological order? Any plans to prioritize content? What I do with LinkLonk is: the more items for a feed you upvote - the more other items from that feed are prioritized. Also, RSS readers have a notion of read/unread status. What are your thoughts on that? Is reverse-chronological ordering supposed to help the users distinguish unread content from read content?

Consider adding the number of comments each item in the list has. I added a test comment on https://www.evalrss.com/comments/9dcbaacb-96b7-4eec-8959-ba6... and there is no indication of that comment in the list.

Re: Show HN: EvalRSS – A Social RSS Aggregator

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Post by lostqubit » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 5:06 PM UTC

lonk11 wrote: post #12

stevenicr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tos ? porn rss? I'd like to have something like this where the up down votes started to put people into groups so that tribe A's likes were shared and tribe A's likes wouldn't affect the view of Tribe B, tribe C doesn't get affected by A or B and so on.

That's exactly how my project https://linklonk.com works. When you upvote an item, you connect to other people who upvoted that item. When you downvote - you disconnect from those who upvoted it. So those who upvote useful content for you, get more weight in your recommendations. Coincidentally, I'm doing a show HN post for it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405643 , so will be happy to answer any quest…

I took a look at your project! It's very interesting. I hope it works out! I think the problem that you're working on is probably very difficult to solve.

Yes, evalRSS lists content in reverse chronological order in your feed by default. The "top" sorting options just filter out the entries submitted before the last n days and order by total votes. I think that displaying the number of comments each entry has is an excellent idea and I would definitely consider adding a read/unread status message to the entries.

To be completely honest, I have a bias against complex recommender systems because they frighten me. I'm not sure how to build one without assuming that people have some kind of static preference function, which feels like it can't be correct. So, I've been leaving content prioritization as a problem for my future self to solve. There could very well be some fancy mathematical technique to account for this, but I wasn't a good enough student to be familiar with it.