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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by frosted-flakes »

GrinningFool wrote: post #35
reggieband wrote: post #24

When the iPhone first allowed apps in an app store I had a conversation with another developer. We brainstormed an idea of an application that would allow you to aggregate all of your conversations with a person. 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…

> 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...

> The android app more-or-less does it as well.

Emphasis on less. The Android implementation of the Hub is gimped compared to BB10. On BB10, tapping a conversation would open it directly in a sub-view, while on Android it acts more like an incomplete list of links, where clicking the link opens the app and breaks the back button. It's such a sub-par experience that I only use it for e-mail these days, where it excels (I haven't found anything better for email).

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by giancarlostoro »

This is awesome, I've been meaning to code some sort of intranet for my home with something like this for myself. Maybe now this one will just be a link within my intranet. Still havent worked out what I want for my intranet entirely. There are so many web based solutions you could make your own (internal) cloud OS.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by nanna »

I love this.

And the video is amazing.

I love the design, especially the bizarre loading screen. Initial UX thoughts from a elfeed user who imported their feeds with an opml:

- It would be great if the enter and close buttons were in the same spot, instead of the close button jumping to the bottom, so you could open and close drawers more easily.

- It'd be great if links could be shaded after they'd been opened, or marked somehow else as having been read.

- Would love to be able to reorder tabs

- Would be great if you could change the label for all the entries in a group in one go. Eg, I set the yellow geekface emoji for my tech follows, but I want to change this to a darker skinned variant without having to do so one-by-one.

- After I've added my feeds and given them all categories, the home tab is empty and calls me to add follows. It's unclear if I'm waiting for feeds to update or something, or if I need to leave some uncategorised, etc.

- Love the graphs but I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

- As you'd expect from an emacs user, would love to have more keyboard binding. Cycle through, unfold this drawer, unfold all drawers, switch tab, etc.

Thanks for this ace project!

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by isoprophlex »

This is the paradigmatically different internet I never knew I craved. I'm totally hooked on your idea: this is what the internet beyond 2020 should be.

No more walled gardens and network effect lock-in; people first, apps second.

Fantastic work.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by isoprophlex »

overshard wrote: post #7

Very cool project and basically a modern RSS feed reader for a modern web where not everything has a standardized feed to digest. Which is a little sad... Something like this is really useful for what it does but I'm afraid of how much upkeep might be required if it's scraping pages (which would be required for some platform so it's unavoidable).

With a strong enough userbase, the scraping upkeep could be sourced from capable users?
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