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Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by brador »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #9
brador wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know right, yet the site still weighs in at just 46.29kb thanks to the wonders of gzip compression (156kb without). Any ideas on feeds worth adding?

Any chance you could just store the images in a single local image and use CSS sprites, instead of loading favicons from every different site. The front page does 62 HTTP requests and they're all over the place...

I could do, but the way it's built is using a master array in the page creator file. To add a feed, I just add the new feed and favicon location into the array. Storing the images would mean more work each time a new feed is added.

Having said that, CSS Sprites is something I don't know much about and will be looking into.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by charliepark »

brador wrote: post #11
mike-cardwell wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you could just store the images in a single local image and use CSS sprites, instead of loading favicons from every different site. The front page does 62 HTTP requests and they're all over the place...

I could do, but the way it's built is using a master array in the page creator file. To add a feed, I just add the new feed and favicon location into the array. Storing the images would mean more work each time a new feed is added. Having said that, CSS Sprites is something I don't know much about and will be looking into.

It'd take a tiny bit more work on the frontend, but instead of saving the favicon location, you could save a data-uri of the favicon image. That would then completely eliminate all of the external HTTP requests.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by mike-cardwell »

You have a few escaping issues, that Firefox nicely hi-lights if you view the source. For example, if the title of an article contains a ", you don't quote it, so in the html you end up with attributes like this:

  title="something "something else""
You also don't escape ampersands. Eg:

  x & y
Should be:

  x & y
I imagine there is a more general issue with a lack of escaping, but these are just a couple of examples I found.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by brador »

aj wrote: post #8
brador wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know right, yet the site still weighs in at just 46.29kb thanks to the wonders of gzip compression (156kb without). Any ideas on feeds worth adding?

The Next Web This is very useful. Thank you for sharing this. What are your plans for this?

The Next Web added, should show on the next db refresh.

Plans is an interesting question, thanks for asking.

When I built it originally I had this huge project in mind (as we all do :) ), bookmarks, saved articles in a user area, FB login, link tracking for a "most popular links box", live stream, recommendation algos, the works.

I guess this scale is one of the reasons I originally dropped it.

After the rediscovery I thought "let's go MVP on this". So I cut everything back. What you see is what surivived. Literally, just the news links, on a html page, that is quick to load with no server hit.

Future plans - let's see how it goes eh. If the hosting bill enters the trips I'll drop a few ads in, but I like the cleanness of it all for now.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by brador »

sa1f wrote: post #13

I used jimmyr.com all these years. Might as well switch to this. Hate those fixed social buttons though.

The fixed socials are only on for today, I've made a note to remove them.

Good to have you on board, Let me know if there's any feeds you'd like added.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Post by brador »

yogrish wrote: post #15

Very nice collection. Few sites I never heard of. Thanks for sharing. Btw, You Mentioned Amazon and Google Ad-sense in Privacy policy. I don't see any Ads, have any plan to keep Ads on this site and make revenue?

Ads depends on the hosting bill, but I like the clean interface so we'll see how it goes.

The privacy policy is a copy, paste, find, replace from another site I run, didn't expect this heat. Added to todo.

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