> Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes.
Where do you get the social shares? I don't see any share buttons on the webpage?
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#23That’s not news. Content that’s popular on Reddit is not news that’s important, it’s just the modern equivalent of pop culture (which may or may not encompass actual news).
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#24Are there any copyright issues with you showing the full article content?
I understand that the headlines, images and blurbs are from public RSS feeds, but I'm almost certain the article content doesn't, not at least for many of these.
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#25Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble). I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their…
Before I scroll down, every story on the page is similar perspectives on the same event (Trump at the UN), and the top story is posted by Shareblue. Maybe this is a fluke, but it's a terrible first impression for me as a user, and I won't be checking it again anytime soon.
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#26I am using the message app now, just wrote about invalid URL
[edit] I love this new app
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#27You need to make it so we can add our own news sources
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#28> Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. Where do you get the social shares? I don't see any share buttons on the webpage?
I would assume it means it takes the share buttons from the articles themselves and considers those the "upvotes."
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#29I have been using Twitter lists, and simply adding the "breaking news" twitter accounts for a number of news sources...and this seems similar to that...however, I like this better! Great job! The only thing i would suggest is as others have noted: you might want to enable the feature for adding custom sources. Cheers!
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#30So nowadays app means a website.