Totally not readable on a mobile. Left sidebar uses nearly the full screen even if you zoom in.
Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
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Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#32You lost me here: "We think that formats like RSS don't make sense for today's internet". And honestly.. another API? So it only works as long as you are in business (which is based on what by the way?) or decide to kill or change it? And also posting to my social media will be going through your machines? Seriously? If you'd offer me an opensource script that I could call like "localhost/post?message="hello"&where="…
RSS format sucks because XML sucks. I agree that it would be awesome if it was opensource so you could mitigate any risks by having it run on your own hardware, but really it's a valuable service and they deserve to make some money, which will play into keeping the service alive.
I would agree if we were talking about a SOAP protocol that could be restful or something. But RSS doesn't bother me at all. You can just pass it through a converter to suit your fancy, and the bloat for an average use case of 10 results can't be that much. It's a minor miracle anybody decided to publish their sites through RSS so I'm happy they used the format that was hot at the time and got adoption.
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#33Looks nice, just a note: the redirect from http://streamified.me is broken. $ curl -I http://streamified.me HTTP/1.0 302 Found Cache-Control: no-cache Connection: close Location: https:\/\/streamified.me
I'm not following... how is this broken? The headers return a 302 code, pointing to the proper HTTPS site. If you click the link you pasted, your browser should properly redirect (tested in FF, Chrome).
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#34Totally not readable on a mobile. Left sidebar uses nearly the full screen even if you zoom in.
Sorry, but this is a developer portal -- not a news source or blog -- and really isn't meant to be used on a mobile device. I acknowledge that this may not be the answer you're looking for, but we didn't design the site for mobile because what it needs to do isn't really appropriate (or feasible) on mobile -- eg, the API console.
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! The stack which is required for the Streamified API is really quite large, too. Between node, mongo, elasticsearch, and a few other pieces of software... plus a few dozen node modules and even some custom linux configuration, it's really not feasible to expect devs to install it on their own machines ;)
You could open source it anyway, though, or parts of it. NewsBlur does this: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur One could run their own NewsBlur, but Samuel has stated it requires a lot of resources to pull RSS feeds, and so in practice it's much easier to pay them $2/month. (This may not apply if you plan on having business customers who are paying orders of magnitude more than that.) But it alleviates any fear…
Fair points, thanks. I'd have to discuss with the team if this is an option, ultimately. I can promise that if we ever did go away, I would certainly aim to opensource it (why not?) But as a company w/ investors, it's not a decision I can make myself right now ;)
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#36This sounds a lot like http://singly.com/ - how is it different?
Sure, we both cover social login and sharing. However, Streamified supports a whole bunch of news features, and a lot more social endpoints, which Singly doesn't begin to touch on.
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#37Hey just wanted to say that I appreciate the API and it has very nice docs! Ignore the naysayers, it's not for everyone but I can already imagine a ton of uses.
Thanks!
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#38Totally not readable on a mobile. Left sidebar uses nearly the full screen even if you zoom in.
Sorry, but this is a developer portal -- not a news source or blog -- and really isn't meant to be used on a mobile device. I acknowledge that this may not be the answer you're looking for, but we didn't design the site for mobile because what it needs to do isn't really appropriate (or feasible) on mobile -- eg, the API console.
Well it is a news source, called hacker _news_. You telling me a developer doesn't read stuff on a cell is just complete BS.
I never said i want a mobile site. Just a css that doesn't completely break on small resolutions. If you don't want to fix it fine. But don't give me such a BS answer.
I acknowledge this might not be the answer you were looking for.
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but this is a developer portal -- not a news source or blog -- and really isn't meant to be used on a mobile device. I acknowledge that this may not be the answer you're looking for, but we didn't design the site for mobile because what it needs to do isn't really appropriate (or feasible) on mobile -- eg, the API console.
Well it is a news source, called hacker _news_. You telling me a developer doesn't read stuff on a cell is just complete BS. I never said i want a mobile site. Just a css that doesn't completely break on small resolutions. If you don't want to fix it fine. But don't give me such a BS answer. I acknowledge this might not be the answer you were looking for.
I'm sorry, I think I misspoke. What I meant is: you're right. What we should have done, though, was link to a blog post for you to read, rather than the dev portal itself. It just wasn't realistic to build a mobile enabled dev portal, so we should have posted something mobile friendly instead.
Re: Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs
#40Looks nice, just a note: the redirect from http://streamified.me is broken. $ curl -I http://streamified.me HTTP/1.0 302 Found Cache-Control: no-cache Connection: close Location: https:\/\/streamified.me
I'm not following... how is this broken? The headers return a 302 code, pointing to the proper HTTPS site. If you click the link you pasted, your browser should properly redirect (tested in FF, Chrome).
Those slashes are escaped with backslashes in the response