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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#81

Post by bakakid » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #2

So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

im so glad this popped up again! I was trying to find it the other day but none of my searches or history rang a bell!

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#82

Post by kickscondor » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

mcrump wrote: post #50

Your YT promo video needs to get to the point much much faster. 45 seconds tops. Save the cuteness for later or another video.

This is the cuteness video. There is no other video.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#83

Post by kickscondor » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:37 PM UTC

crispyporkbites wrote: post #22

Nice, great design as well, is this a standard theme? Does this flag up a button on pages which I can follow when I'm on them? E.g. if I'm on a blog with RSS does a button appear so I can subscribe to it?

The design is just a bunch of random colors. It's non-standard.

I haven't added a button like that yet. It would require me to snoop on web requests that the browser is doing. And I'm reluctant to do that at the moment. I do like the recent idea of adding a bookmarklet: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/99

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#84

Post by calmchaos » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

Feedbro is better with more social media integration support. https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#85

Post by code_duck » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:29 PM UTC

I like this idea. I'm very tired of trying to sift through publishers (individuals too) sorted by some opaque, perennially ineffective algorithm.

Twitter, for instance - I follow hundreds of people, but my notifications are literally 100% Rick Wilson. I have absolutely no idea how they made this decision, but it's way off the mark.

On Instagram, there's an account that's my favorite. I've liked every photo they post. They haven't shown up in my feed for months. Checked their account and they've been posting new content daily for 3 weeks. Meanwhile my fees shows me pics of some guy I don't care about at all walking his dog in vacation.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#86

Post by ccktlmazeltov » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:31 PM UTC

feature request: I tried adding decrypt.co and could not, and then I couldn't leave the page to add a new thing.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#87

Post by joantune » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:37 PM UTC

Circa 4 weeks ago I had the same core idea! I think this is very interesting to be able to follow people you respect or are interested in one way or another, regardless of the platform where you find them. A kind of global Twitter. This has potential to become the new version of a social network. Kudos on executing it

PS: Initially I thought that the killer platform to adopt such a thing would be keybase! I even thought of tweeting to them, but then the idea just fleeted away. Oh well..

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#88

Post by solstice » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:38 PM UTC

bakakid wrote: post #81

kickscondor wrote: post #2

So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

im so glad this popped up again! I was trying to find it the other day but none of my searches or history rang a bell!

That's the main problem on the internet, I think: not finding stuff but finding it again!

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#89

Post by Krasnol » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:42 PM UTC

Is there a way to actually add account login data so you can grab feeds from users who are not visible if not logged in? I see that happening on Instagram for example.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#90

Post by Fnoord » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:45 PM UTC

yantrams wrote: post #36

GrinningFool wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instead of opening the phone app, the messages app, > facebook, twitter, etc. you would instead open the "Joe > Smith" app and all of your conversations with that person > across any medium would be aggregated in a single place BlackBerry hub did this under BBOS10. The android app more-or-less does it as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...

Meego OS had it too.

Yep, and Telepathy (based on Pidgin aka GAIM). In a way, Pidgin and its predecessors of multi IM clients also did this.