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Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by lgp171188 »

conesus wrote: post #20
mynegation wrote: post #16

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I tried to install NewsBlur, but instructions were not very helpful. I tried to get as far as I can, editing fabfile and installing gajillions of new python modules, but still failed. Don't get me wrong, it is wonderful and very commendable of you to open source NewsBlur! Nor do I feel entitled to the source code or free ride (I will probably end up paying for the hosted solution). Just providing some feedback, given…

This is something I'll be working on soon enough. There are many, many dependencies (not only for the web app, but there are three DBs that you have to have installed as prerequisites - mongo, postgres/mysql, and redis). The real problem with setting up your own instance of NewsBlur is that you'll have to do your own feed fetching. This is effectively what you're paying for when you pay for NewsBlur. Let me break it…

I tried very hard to setup my own instance as well going through the fabfile.py to figure out things, but I hit a point where I simply couldn't go ahead on my Debian Squeeze installation. I'd love to have a very good documentation on the installation process.

Also there seem to be a lot of stuff that need to be installed and configured that might not be necessary for single-user/Due to the mass exodus from Google Reader, I understand that NewsBlur has faced challenges in scaling and hence is slow. But things can only get better from here.

Since it in open source software, you should at least setup a getting started developer's guide so that you will get a lot more contributions from the community.

Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #129
boyter wrote: post #82

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Thats actually a really good idea. I wonder what would be next? Most of Yahoo's properties seem be be neglected at the moment, but what about Google? Google News perhaps?

Probably Google Alerts. It's rather niche but people who use it absolutely rely on it. But the VC-funded Mention seems poised to take that one.

Google Alerts is a good candidate. Pardon anecdotal evidence, but the people in my circles who rely on it are executives who watch for their own names, or brand managers who watch for coverage of their company.

This information is very valuable and I'm sure a good service could charge a nice premium.

Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by darkspaten »

MiguelHudnandez wrote: post #142
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #129

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Probably Google Alerts. It's rather niche but people who use it absolutely rely on it. But the VC-funded Mention seems poised to take that one.

Google Alerts is a good candidate. Pardon anecdotal evidence, but the people in my circles who rely on it are executives who watch for their own names, or brand managers who watch for coverage of their company. This information is very valuable and I'm sure a good service could charge a nice premium.

I've received some deliverables from a marketing team which uses the following service for just such a purpose (at a nice premium) @ https://www.meltwater.com/products/meltwater-news/online-med...

Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by tempestn »

Semaphor wrote: post #116
tempestn wrote: post #107

A tad off topic, but I'm hoping the fastest way to get an answer: How does one move or delete multiple feeds at once in newsblur? There must be a way to do this, right? Say I import 100 feeds from an OPML file, then realize I actually want them all in a folder. At the moment the only way I can figure out how to do that is to click on each feed, click move to folder, click the folder dropdown box, click the folder I w…

Heh, wondered that myself yesterday after I realized my OPML contained old feeds for some reason. Reimporting feeds will delete your current feeds :)

Hmm.. that would be helpful. Unfortunately it looks like there are some bugs to iron out. Twice in a row now, I've created a folder, then in the folder menu got to add feeds to that folder, imported an opml file, and... the folder disappears and the feeds go into the root.

Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by ergo14 »

dpcx wrote: post #126
ergo14 wrote: post #121

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Hello Samuel, I'm sure you will need all the help you can get with upcoming traffic so I've tried contacting you recently about helping you scale better with https://errormator.com , but I somehow miss you when you are online on IRC, so I've sent you mail to the mailbox i've found. Its great since your app is python based and we maintain an awesome python client. Drop me a line if you are interested, we love open-sou…

How does this compare to [1]? [1]: https://github.com/errbit/errbit

Errormator launched its new index page yesterday - some things are still missing, but the images should give you a better overview of what to expect vs. other solutions.

Cheers!

Re: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

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Post by Flenser »

conesus wrote: post #20
mynegation wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to install NewsBlur, but instructions were not very helpful. I tried to get as far as I can, editing fabfile and installing gajillions of new python modules, but still failed. Don't get me wrong, it is wonderful and very commendable of you to open source NewsBlur! Nor do I feel entitled to the source code or free ride (I will probably end up paying for the hosted solution). Just providing some feedback, given…

This is something I'll be working on soon enough. There are many, many dependencies (not only for the web app, but there are three DBs that you have to have installed as prerequisites - mongo, postgres/mysql, and redis). The real problem with setting up your own instance of NewsBlur is that you'll have to do your own feed fetching. This is effectively what you're paying for when you pay for NewsBlur. Let me break it…

Could you federate some of the feed fetches to your users? Get the UI to check for updates to some subset of that user's feeds and then ping the newsblur server to tell it when there's been an update.
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