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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by dtakuma »

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 the closer to what I imagined the Dip from "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" would be that I have encountered so far - maybe I'm miss remembering and it was not a software at all but I have been looking for some kind of hub like this since I read that book. So glad I checked this link. Thanks for making it!

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by dmvaldman »

dtakuma wrote: post #140
dmvaldman wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you considered following hackernews profiles? (comments, posts, etc) also, best promo video of all time and amazing concept. we'd be great friends IRL. alas.

If I'm not misinterpreting you, you can already do this with rss : https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

thanks for sharing! did not know about this!

this could be the foundation of what my request was implying. it's the data pipe, but would need the frontend the OP is building

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by dmvaldman »

dtakuma wrote: post #140
dmvaldman wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you considered following hackernews profiles? (comments, posts, etc) also, best promo video of all time and amazing concept. we'd be great friends IRL. alas.

If I'm not misinterpreting you, you can already do this with rss : https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

scratch everything i said. the tool can import any RSS feed. so you're 100% right, it can already do HN posts/comments/etc from specific people

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by kickscondor »

cableclasper wrote: post #139
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…

Really nice work! I'm playing with the app currently. Is there a way to set the default browser used to open links?

It should use whatever browser your operating system has set as the default. But please let me know if that is not the case.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by cableclasper »

kickscondor wrote: post #144
cableclasper wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really nice work! I'm playing with the app currently. Is there a way to set the default browser used to open links?

It should use whatever browser your operating system has set as the default. But please let me know if that is not the case.

My OS is arch linux. It seems like the app does not use xdg-open (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open ). Setting the BROWSER environment variable also doesn't seem to work. I don't know any other way to set the default browser.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by TulliusCicero »

callahad wrote: post #131
TulliusCicero wrote: post #125

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This is very cool. I wish there was something like this for the various web serials I read. Keeping track of them all can be...cumbersome.

Couldn't this be that? If those serials are posted somewhere that has an RSS feed, you're good to go.

Huh, for some reason I thought RoyalRoad didn't have RSS feeds for its stories, but apparently it does. Nice!

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by pkamb »

kickscondor wrote: post #65
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).

found one:

https://www.podchaser.com/creators

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by Quanttek »

kickscondor wrote: post #96
nanna wrote: post #46

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 m…

- Working on this. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/50 - Re: link colors. I think this is already the case for post titles. What platform did you try it on? - Re: reordering tabs. I've put this in the queue. Thank you. - Re: changing tabs. Part of this: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/70 - Re: empty home tab. Good point. If home isn't wanted, maybe I make it go away... Hmm need to think…

Re home: Maybe split it into two: an "uncategorized" tab and an "all" tab

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by roryokane »

runxel wrote: post #111
goblin89 wrote: post #66

Fraidycat is the first piece of open-source software I noticed using Blue Oak Model License.

Nice! Didn't even know this exists. I'm a bit confused, tho: the only real content is: > This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible, while protecting contributors from liability. This doesn't really sound unambiguous to me (but maybe that's because English is not my native language). As comparison from The Unlicense: > Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, s…

The Purpose paragraph you quoted from https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/blob/master/LICENSE... is far from “the only real content”. That paragraph is a statement of intent, not a compression of the details into one sentence. It’s not supposed to be unambiguous. The next seven paragraphs on Acceptance, Copyright, Notices, Excuse, Patent, Reliability, and No Liability are the actual rules of the license.

The Blue Oak Model License aims to be closer to the MIT License than to the Unlicense. The Unlicense releases the software into the public domain, which means, for example, that someone who makes a derivative work could release that work under a proprietary license. In contrast, the Notices section of the Blue Oak Model License, just like the third paragraph of the MIT License, requires derivative works to be released under the same license. I would say the Blue Oak Model License uses the idea of “freedom through self-imposed restrictions” more than both the Unlicense and the MIT License.

I think the biggest difference between the MIT License and the Blue Oak Model License is that the MIT License doesn’t mention patents, which (some lawyers think) could allow authors of MIT-Licensed software to sue users for violating their patents used by the software. The Blue Oak Model License’s Patent section closes that loophole.

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