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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by pkamb »

> I use it to follow people

This is something I have a real need for. Specifically, podcast hosts. I want to follow certain hosts and listen to every random show they're on.

Some hosts do keep lists of their appearances across many shows: http://hypercritical.co/about/appearances/

But that forces me to manually find the episodes and add each one to my podcast app.

I want something that aggregates appearances into a cross-podcast RSS feed that I can subscribe to in my app. Automatically subscribe to every one of their appearances.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by czottmann »

sairamkunala wrote: post #23

previously a similar service was present - FriendFeed. You could aggregate all your friend's feeds into a single location. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed They created and later opensourced Tornado(Python based HTTP framework for handling large number of threads)

I remember! Pouring one out for FF right now.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by indigoviolet »

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…

This is great. Would love to see an import from twitter/reddit subs feature in the extension.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by pletsch »

I like that you have a style for your UI that (at least looking at your other projects) is completely yours. I think more developers that release small projects all the time should do this.

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Post by kickscondor »

pkamb wrote: post #61

> I use it to follow people This is something I have a real need for. Specifically, podcast hosts. I want to follow certain hosts and listen to every random show they're on. Some hosts do keep lists of their appearances across many shows: http://hypercritical.co/about/appearances/ But that forces me to manually find the episodes and add each one to my podcast app. I want something that aggregates appearances into a c…

This is a brilliant concept. Hosts could keep a feed of their appearances, but it would be interesting for someone to make a site that tracked this sort of thing (using user-submitted links I suppose).

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#67

Post by greycol »

kickscondor wrote: post #16
whichquestion wrote: post #10

First, I’d like to say I really like this project, particularly how it takes the focus away from high frequency posters to active individuals. A possible feature that I would want to see is to be able to have a single tab that would allow for filtering based on the platform, tag, individual, etc.

Ok - this sounds interesting. Can you describe it in more detail? Or like give me a practical example? Always glad to toss around ideas.

I believe they're advocating for an 'advanced search' type page. Something like these:

https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/ https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Where you can search all your subscriptions by meta data (and possible keyword in post).

An alternative but similar functionality would be a table where you can filter the columns. i.e columns might be Platform,Poster,Date,User Defined Tab[],Platform Tags,Summary

So for instance you can show all posts in between 20200219 and 20200305 not on twitter or youtube that are either your tech or finance tab that have the word covid or corona in the summary.

Great work by the way.

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

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…

This is very cool, congrats on launching!

I’ve built something not too dissimilar, but focused on slowing down too, so instead of a feed with changes you get a daily digest of the new things that happened.

It also allows you to view the regular formatting, etc.

If you’re curious, it’s https://focusd.co and I’d love to hear about what you learned with “figuring out” if there’s an RSS Feed for a given URL.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#70

Post by ehsankia »

twic wrote: post #19
fenwick67 wrote: post #18

> There is no news feed. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. No one can noisily take over this page, since every follow has a summary that takes up a mere two lines. I absolutely love this timeline algorithm and was just thinking about something similar last week. This way prolific posters don't flood my feed. We need more experiments li…

I saw someone suggest this as a UI for Twitter a while ago. Can't remember where. But yes, it sounds brilliant!

I've muted so many people on Twitter due to their output being much larger than most of the other accounts I followed, drowning the rest. At the very least there should be some rate limiting feature, showing the X most popular posts in a given timeframe only.
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