Nice Work! I'm going to use this. If you want to make my OCD bookmarks bar perfect, can you add a favicon?
Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com
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#62Nice Work! I'm going to use this. If you want to make my OCD bookmarks bar perfect, can you add a favicon?
I cannot believe I forgot to make a favicon! ha. Added to todo list.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Next Web This is very useful. Thank you for sharing this. What are your plans for this?
The Next Web added, should show on the next db refresh. Plans is an interesting question, thanks for asking. When I built it originally I had this huge project in mind (as we all do :) ), bookmarks, saved articles in a user area, FB login, link tracking for a "most popular links box", live stream, recommendation algos, the works. I guess this scale is one of the reasons I originally dropped it. After the rediscovery…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Have you considered putting in a donation button as well?
I've not tried it yet but hopefully this also works on mobile phones (I have a Blackberry specifically)
Have you considered releasing the source code?
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#64I absolutely love this - now my new homepage. This is a very pleasant way to present this to my eyes. Even more importantly, it loads 'instantly', which is extremely important for a go-to/default site. In my opinion, drudgereport's popularity owes a lot to this combination of easy to absorb and quick loading times.
If I could make a suggestion - I would be interested in seeing a list of popularity based on clicks/time. To preserve the layout, you could only load it as a side column if the screen was wide enough to display more than 3 columns.
I actually think a site like this could turn into a one-man cash cow if you can get it to be a default site visited multiple times each day.
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#65For whatever reason I can't CMD-Click an article without being taken straight to it. I normally like to open a load of links in the background then read them one by one.
This is an issue for me as well. Ideally, I'd like to be able to command-click five or ten articles, then get through them one by one, rather than having to return to SkimLinks after I read each one.
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#66great work! i will visit this often.
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#67For whatever reason I can't CMD-Click an article without being taken straight to it. I normally like to open a load of links in the background then read them one by one.
They're all set to target _blank...could that be affecting your CMD-clicking?
It's more a case of them being set to _BLANK instead of _blank. If I edit the src to be the correct lowercase version, CMD-Clicking works as it should.
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#68I think it would be worth adding some way to filter/hide the sources. I like the idea of the whole thing, especially the simplicity, but I don't read nearly as many news sources as you, so it makes it kind of inconvenient to scroll/search through the whole thing to find the sites I am looking for
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#69This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout. If you made this a service, here's what would make me switch: - customizable feeds (kind of obvious I guess) - ability to mark items as read/unread (link color is not enough - I want to skip some items, or just read them all from the blog itself without clicking individual items) - have individu…
I currently use netvibes too.
to customize rss feeds.. i use Yahoo Pipes. You can provide bunch of feeds to pipes, then add custom filters, sorts, terms and generate a custom RSS address. Add this address to netvibes.
and with this process, you will hardly ever visit any of the homepages except netvibes.
Nice project though.
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#70Although I like the idea, I personally prefer Pulse.me. It has pictures and resized articles according to their significance. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/W1NKw.png
My biggest gripe with Pulse and similar readers is that clicking on a headline takes me to an article stub with an option to click a link to the full article. Just take me to the article!