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Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies »

jamesbritt wrote: post #135

Very 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 :)

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies »

jongraehl wrote: post #139

It's doing a fine job replacing Google Reader for me (I was otherwise going to use Feedly, who require me to learn a different UI). Are you already using your own backend? It seems so, since it's showing me different articles and not sync read status from Google Reader (which seems to show new content sooner). What's the meaning of the orange circle empty/filled?

Yep, I'm using a backend I've written for the application. An API will be released soon, as well. Orange circle empty == read, filled in == unread.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by xtracto »

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.

I agree with this. PLEASE make a paid version, otherwise your project will end in the same place where all those other free RSS readers ended: in archive.org

The problem with these kind of services is that if they are free, a lot of people won't pay for them and might use so many resources that the money paid by the few people who donated or paid will not be enough to sustain the service.

Sorry for the tone, but I am so tired of seeing lots of mini-web services turned off because they were free... Nowadays I downloaded Vizzy for Mac: although it is not the most pretty RSS reader, I know it will be working forever.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by brown9-2 »

jff wrote: post #108

Why does everything have to be described as "beautiful"? Yes, it looks nice. It's not fucking Beethoven, it's a website that appears to do a damn fine job of managing RSS feeds. Yet every damn day we see another HN front-page article about such-and-such a "beautiful" web-app. Edit: also, in this instance, a good chunk of the beautiful design seems to have been lifted from Google's style, from the icon style to the wa…

These "beautiful" labels are also a little hard to take since they always seem to come from the creator of the darned thing, a source that's a bit biased.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by actionscripted »

saurabhnanda wrote: post #61
jamiebikies wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed!

Firing up the the Angular vs Ember debate again here. What's your take?

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.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by saurabhnanda »

jamiebikies wrote: post #65
saurabhnanda wrote: post #62

Just signed up. It's been importing from Google Reader for the last 20mins or so. Is it supposed to take that long?

Yep, sorry about that. The importer is currently working like crazy on all the imports from this HN post :p

I signed up last night and checked again this morning. Still importing. Are you sure the backend processes are crashing under the HN load?
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