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Which features are you looking for in an RSS reader? Some ideas we're discussing for Winds 0.2.0: - Secondary links (ie comments link for HNews and Lobsters)
by tschellenbach 10y ago
Which features are you looking for in an RSS reader? Some ideas we're discussing for Winds 0.2.0:
- Secondary links (ie comments link for HNews and Lobsters)
- Batch OPML import
- Deploy to Heroku button
- Follow suggestions (we're working on this)
- Switching between feeds should be easier
- Lightweight task queuing system for emails and discover endpoint
- Keyboard shortcuts (vim style)
- GraphQL style APIs so you have more flexibility for building your own mobile apps
- Android & iOS apps
- Support more sites (RSS data quality is pretty poor and often needs custom logic per site/feed)
- Search article's you've read using Algolia
- Folders/Groups
- Sharing support (e.g. Buffer, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- kem 10y agoI was going to say mobile apps. Winds looks great--I just usually use RSS readers on my Android device. Also, distributed sync would be awesome (i.e., without a centralized server, using something like syncthing or whatever), but that's just a dream.
- awowl 10y agohackuser posted a requirement which has my full support: Since you're doing machine learning, try and apply that to avoid showing me articles with overlapping content. Often quite a few sites I follow will cover the same thing, and obviously, I want to read it only once.
- tschellenbach 10y agoThank you, good suggestion!
- hackuser 10y agoTo clarify my version of the idea, I would like to see all the articles on the same subject but grouped together, perhaps in a collapsible outline, so I can choose which one or more articles I want to read on the subject.
- anc84 10y agoGrab each URL and all referenced URLs with wget (as WARC) and optionally youtube-dl so I can have an archive of them all.
- patja 10y agoWhat is batch OPML import? I'm confused by the use of the word batch in this context. How is this different from plain old OPML import? It is not like someone is going to import their feeds one at a time. Anyways, any RSS reader lacking OPML import and export is a non-starter in my opinion, at least for me and anyone else who has a long list of subscriptions to setup.
- Sylos 10y agoI think, "batch OPML import" is just supposed to mean batch import of feeds via an OPML file...
- hackuser 10y agoJust in case you didn't see it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12933006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12933006