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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#72

Post by newtoday »

This is awesome! The design / branding itself is pleasantly unique and fun!

@kickscondor feature idea: it would be awesome if users could share their feed sources as a community shared feed that one could switch to.

Edit: I see now that ccktlmazeltov said the same 2 hours ago

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#74

Post by tomgp »

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 really scratches and itch for me. I've felt similarly about RSS readers, they kind of work but as you point out most news feeds privilege the most voluminous posters at everyone else's expense. Love it.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#76

Post by kickscondor »

newtoday wrote: post #72

This is awesome! The design / branding itself is pleasantly unique and fun! @kickscondor feature idea: it would be awesome if users could share their feed sources as a community shared feed that one could switch to. Edit: I see now that ccktlmazeltov said the same 2 hours ago

For feed sharing, here's where I'm putting ideas: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/6

Thank you for the nice words.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#77

Post by kickscondor »

listic wrote: post #75

What does it mean there's no online sync for the binaries?

The extensions will sync your list of follows between computers. So if you are logged in to Chrome on your work computer and you subscribe to dezz.ie, it'll show up when you log in to Chrome at home.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

#78

Post by kickscondor »

listic wrote: post #73

I wish there was a way to follow someone's posts on, say, Twitter, but not re-posts. Is there an easy way to do that?

Is this something you would want as a global option? Or would you do it on a case-by-case? I'm tempted to just add a "Show Reposts" in the filtering menu. That seems perhaps more useful (to me) than having to manage individual settings.
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