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Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firing up the the Angular vs Ember debate again here. What's your take?

If we're picking this battle up, can everyone also argue a bit about the backend? I've been with Django for years, but I'm tempted to get back into Rails with how well it seems some of the JS frameworks are supported.

Also, should I develop with Vim or Emacs?

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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I signed up and like it - after Google Reader died (and, to be honest, a while before that) I haven't used RSS much and just had a saved set of tabs that I religiously opened to waste away my time. This might .. help. Thanks!

Unrelated: I'd really be interested in a follow-up story/post from you about the load you're experiencing. You just pushed a free [1] service in front of HN. How's the thing holding up? Both code/stack and allocated hardware? I guess it boils down to general curiosity on the one hand, the question of whether you can do this in a sustainable fashion on the other hand.

1: with donations

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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looks great! couple of notes:

- the red buttons sometimes gets broken for me on Chrome (27) - the text on them is either invisible (log in on the main page) or messed up (one letter over another)

- text is rendered poorly on Chrome and Opera, probably a fault of the browser+font combination, maybe you can try to experiment with different fonts

- did you think about something different than read/unread model? it was something that was irking me about Google Reader or now with Netvibes - the point of RSS reader is not to read it all, at least not when you have thousands of items to read

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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So, many people have already had the time to switch from Google Reader. That means people have to be able to import feeds by OPML. Right now it seems like Google Reader is the only import option. There seems to be https, that is very nice. But theoldreader.com offers me this too. I need an import option before trying this out.

OPML is certainly coming, next week I hope :)

Do consider sending out an announcement mail when you do. As it stands I'm content (but not happy) using another RSS reader. I'm not actively looking, but a good replacement would be wonderful indeed. As such, your reader runs the risk of being forgotten during the wait, which would definitely be a shame.

That said, sending unsolicited mails... you know the dilemma here.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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post #101

Instead of calling it a donation, just call it the 'pro' version and add like a supporter badge on the header or let them do something silly like change the color of their header like on HN. Will probably get more funds that way and won't get cynical people to roll their eyes at questionable use of the word 'donation' whether it is or not.

Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTED TABLES IT'S 2013!!?!?!!111questionmark! Sorry, blacked out for a minute there.

Actually this has been asked here before and pg himself did answer the question [1] (you may have to scroll a little to see pg's response). pg also argues in one of his essays [2] that tables are the (lisp) lists of html, being very dynamic and flexible which is perfect for explanatory programming despite being unclear (in its purpose/structure) sometimes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100460 [2] http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Why does everything have to be described as "beautiful"? Yes, it looks nice. It's not fucking Beethoven, it's a website that appears to do a damn fine job of managing RSS feeds. Yet every damn day we see another HN front-page article about such-and-such a "beautiful" web-app. Edit: also, in this instance, a good chunk of the beautiful design seems to have been lifted from Google's style, from the icon style to the wa…

Beautiful is not just in the design, I've put a lot of effort into the mechanics of how things work, as well.

While i agree that beautiful does come in no small part from the "mechanics of how things work" there's NO WAY TO KNOW that you've done that from the site. It's a static screenshot. To be honest the screenshot's a bit... simple and plain. Not terribly notable. Maybe it is a "beautiful" experience to use it, but I've got no way of knowing that without signing up for it. What's my incentive here? Why should I bother with yours when all i see is a simple screenshot with NO indication of ANY notable functionality or mechanics?

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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So, many people have already had the time to switch from Google Reader. That means people have to be able to import feeds by OPML. Right now it seems like Google Reader is the only import option. There seems to be https, that is very nice. But theoldreader.com offers me this too. I need an import option before trying this out.

OPML is certainly coming, next week I hope :)

Nice, looking forward to trying it out!

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Jamie, I am getting about 10 errors a second in my console: Uncaught TypeError: Object sufio._xdWatchInFlight(); has no method 'apply' reader-29b4dd587f1ca6b5f0d639aac64ce9bf.js:1 e.(anonymous function) reader-29b4dd587f1ca6b5f0d639aac64ce9bf.js:1 Pretty print the error location from chrome: e.setInterval = function() { var e = t.call(arguments, 0), n = e[0]; return e[0] = function() { try { n.apply(this, arguments)…

Superfish? I'm not even using superfish. Intercom is so users can contact me and pusher is so I can push you new entries without requiring a reload.

What Pusher plan are you subscribed to and how's that working out considering the spike in traffic/simultaneous users?
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