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Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:35 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #107

jamiebikies wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was calling it a donation, because I do offer the service for free. I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features.

It's difficult to scale an RSS reader as you could quickly start having to crawl orders of magnitude number of feeds more than you are now as you get more users, if power users like your thing. I know because I worked at Bloglines. You're either going to need money or you will shut it down eventually.

I have faith people are going to pay if they use it and like it.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:36 PM UTC

ramayac wrote: post #103

jamiebikies wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was calling it a donation, because I do offer the service for free. I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features.

"I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features." That's neat, why don't consider some kind of sponsorship program? A user that can pay, can sponsor one or two more users who can't, that would be nice :)

That's an AWESOME idea, actually!

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:38 PM UTC

luv2code wrote: post #106

Jamie, I am getting about 10 errors a second in my console: Uncaught TypeError: Object sufio._xdWatchInFlight(); has no method 'apply' reader-29b4dd587f1ca6b5f0d639aac64ce9bf.js:1 e.(anonymous function) reader-29b4dd587f1ca6b5f0d639aac64ce9bf.js:1 Pretty print the error location from chrome: e.setInterval = function() { var e = t.call(arguments, 0), n = e[0]; return e[0] = function() { try { n.apply(this, arguments)…

Superfish? I'm not even using superfish. Intercom is so users can contact me and pusher is so I can push you new entries without requiring a reload.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by dicroce » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:38 PM UTC

vec wrote: post #101

btipling wrote: post #31

Instead of calling it a donation, just call it the 'pro' version and add like a supporter badge on the header or let them do something silly like change the color of their header like on HN. Will probably get more funds that way and won't get cynical people to roll their eyes at questionable use of the word 'donation' whether it is or not.

Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTED TABLES IT'S 2013!!?!?!!111questionmark! Sorry, blacked out for a minute there.

Maybe they're so l33t they've wrapped around, and thats why they're using tables...

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

squidi wrote: post #89

jamiebikies wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll be prompted to authorize when your place in the queue is up. The importer queue is insanely busy right now so it'll be a little while.

The text says "You can safely navigate away from this page while your feeds are being imported " so it's confusing some of us who have not initiated an import. Good luck with it!

Oh, that is implied that once you start an import, you can move away.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:40 PM UTC

luv2code wrote: post #96

aroch wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please force SSL/TLS on the accounts page if not everywhere (should be everywhere)...You're currently sending Stripe payments over http

I checked and the strip communication is done ajax style through https. I don't see a problem.

This is true. Also, you should be redirected to https when you go to /account if things are working how they're intended. I don't run the full thing through SSL quite yet, because I pull in content from lots of different sources (images, for example), and that would cause SSL warnings.

I have something in mind for this, but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Full SSL is coming.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by rednukleus » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:40 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #99

Why so many proprietary, web-based RSS readers? There are plenty of free readers so it's silly to get locked-in to yet another web-based RSS reader that will shut down some day.

I need an RSS reader that works and syncs across my Linux laptop, Windows 8 desktop, Android phone and Windows XP work computer (and I can't install any software on the work computer).

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by leoplct » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:44 PM UTC

vec wrote: post #101

btipling wrote: post #31

Instead of calling it a donation, just call it the 'pro' version and add like a supporter badge on the header or let them do something silly like change the color of their header like on HN. Will probably get more funds that way and won't get cynical people to roll their eyes at questionable use of the word 'donation' whether it is or not.

Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTED TABLES IT'S 2013!!?!?!!111questionmark! Sorry, blacked out for a minute there.

ahhahahahahha! You're funny

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by seany » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:46 PM UTC

How what kind of backlog will it keep for unread items? It's not that weird for me to not pay attention to a feed or collection of feeds that I don't have time for at the moment. This is one of my main issues with newsblur, which has a ridiculously low limit of 500 per feed max (based on the number of subscribers the feed has), if you aren't a paying member and it's a low subscription feed it could be as low as 25 posts or something.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by Flimm » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:46 PM UTC

Consider using Mozilla Persona to handle authentication. It's easier to implement that rolling your own username/password solution (although I see you've already done that), and it's decentralised unlike using Google credentials.