I really like the cleanliness of your layout. But I find the color scheme rather annoying.
The choice to use red for headlines is a pretty bad decision (sorry), I can only recommend you tone it down a bit or even chose a completely different color scheme. At least give us the option to change the colours ourselves.
Otherwise, great effort!
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If we're picking this battle up, can everyone also argue a bit about the backend? I've been with Django for years, but I'm tempted to get back into Rails with how well it seems some of the JS frameworks are supported.
Also, should I develop with Vim or Emacs?
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#184Very cool. I sign in/up using my Google account, and the import is chugging along. One of the things a liked about Reader was that I could get a very simple, compact, list of feed headlines, making it easy to scan through a large number of items to pick out the few that might be of interest. A good RSS read helps me get through a lot of data without having to step through every item or go through pages with only a ha…
I think something like this, a "compact" view, makes a lot of sense. Perhaps something called "Headline Mode", which may be in the books :)
Thanks, that would be fantastic. As it is now, though, I really can't see myself using it because it would take me a week to scan through my feeds.
Props on the work you've done, though.
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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.
FYI, Camo might be useful for this:
There's also a Go (golang) port:
https://github.com/cactus/go-camo
I'm currently using go-camo in my own feed reader and have experienced some flakiness (images fail to load sometimes).
(Also, nice work!)
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#186This is yet another RSS reader that doesn't understand how power users use RSS readers.
The information density is WAY too low.
It would take me forever to browse through my feeds using your interface.
The reason why I like (and still use) Google Reader is because it packs the most number of posts of any RSS reader on a single page and makes it easy to scroll for more.
Google Reader is "glancable". Yoleo is not.
Otherwise Yoleo looks pretty ok. Design is clear and the icons look good, and it's simple to use.
However, the "glancability" issue completely kills it for me.
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#187Is there a way to add folders so that I can keep my feeds organized?
I signed in/up using Google, and it's busy importing my feeds right now, and they appear to be going into folders. I don't see a way to arrange the folders though, which would be a big plus. If I can force an order through some naming convention that's OK too.
Just a follow-up. A day has passed and the import looks stalled. I'll keep checking for the next few days.
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#188I like the look of it. However, before I give you access to my data some more information on how it works, who you are, why I should use it, etc. would be nice. That said, I hope you this gets traction. We need more options.
I agree; a bets minimal option set would be the ones most used on G Reader as far as I can tell:
* Option to hide any unread feeds on sidebar (totally essential for me) * Unread count on feeds with new items * Ability to edit and rename folders
If any of these are there already.. I can't find em. Thanks for this great-working and great-looking site though!
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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.
Actually this has been asked here before and pg himself did answer the question [1] (you may have to scroll a little to see pg's response). pg also argues in one of his essays [2] that tables are the (lisp) lists of html, being very dynamic and flexible which is perfect for explanatory programming despite being unclear (in its purpose/structure) sometimes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100460 [2] http://pa…
Wouldn't divs be a more appropriate analogy?
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#190It looks nice, and at this point in time, this is what I'll probably be using next month. A few things: * Is there a way to scroll through all items in the same way that Google Reader does, rather than having to go to the next item by clicking (or hitting "j")? Feeds with lots of images suffer from the current approach, since there's a delay when each item is loaded (preloading them, say, five items in advance works…
* Yep, just hold "n" or "space" and you'll scroll through the articles * I'll look into that. * I'll try to gather some more feedback to what people think about the font. Perhaps it would make sense for this to be configurable.
I agree on the font-weight. Go for legibility first and beauty second. Personally I prefer 16px myriad pro.
Love it though! Will definitely use :)