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Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Backstory: I built this last year and forgot all about it. Re-discovered it on my junk server last month and I've been using it ever since. Polished overnight and now released to the lions den. Take a look, feedback welcome. What do you think?

Looks nice! Somehow we've been thinking about similar things — https://www.sharingstate.com/office/News

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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TheNextWeb appears twice on the page: first one after Mashable, and second after Geek. But, only the first four items are same in both lists. Fetched from different feed URLs?

Others have already said it, but I will say it again. Please remove the share buttons on top. On my phone (Firefox Mobile on G2), the share buttons keep scrolling down along with the content. In addition to taking up valuable screen space, it is quite annoying as it is quite jumpy and hides the actual content.

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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For 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.

Looks like this has been fixed. Thanks :)

Yep, fixed! And the social buttons no longer hover.

What do you think of the line-height @ 160%? too much?

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Cool stuff!

I like brief little news feeds like this. They get to the point, there's not clutter with distracting pictures, etc. It's simple and all that's necessary.

On my computers I have Rainmeter installed and I link some general Google news feeds right onto my desktop: http://i.imgur.com/76Oc8.png . I wish I had more space though in my upper-right corner, could show more full headlines. A dual-monitor setup would probably be best...

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know right, yet the site still weighs in at just 46.29kb thanks to the wonders of gzip compression (156kb without). Any ideas on feeds worth adding?

The Verge

Yeah, weird thing about the verge, they use "entry" instead of "item" in their feed so it breaks. Anyone know why they do this?

Re: Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

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May i suggest line-height: 160% I know it will take away a few links from the viewarea but you will be able to read them faster IMHO.

How did you come to the 160% figure? Golden triangle?

Golden triangle is nonsense for design, by the way. Please don't let it inform your decisions. Most examples of it in nature are bogus.
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