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I used to be a huge fan of Prismatic until it mysteriously decided about a month ago that all I want to hear about on main feed is Apple, Gadgets and Social Med
by karpathy 14y ago
I used to be a huge fan of Prismatic until it mysteriously decided about a month ago that all I want to hear about on main feed is Apple, Gadgets and Social Media. My other 63 interests (including Physics/Web dev/Genomics/Machine Learning/etc...) are nowhere to be seen and I find myself having to navigate through some of them manually to see more awesome stories that somehow don't make it to my main feed.
This is the problem I have with "smart" services that learn about you. They eventually start doing things you don't want them to do and you don't know how to change the behavior.
On the other hand, services like Google Reader have complete transparency. If you subscribe to a blog you really like, a new post will light up on the left and you don't have to be afraid of missing out. It places a little more burden on the user sometimes, but at least I feel that I am in control and that I know what is going on. It gives me peace of mind when I want it.
My (hopefully) constructive criticism amounts to asking for more transparency, and more user control. Find ways of being clever and impressing me, but also allow me to correct/improve or constraint you explicitly when I want to. Otherwise, keep up the great work!
- pilooch 14y agoI see you're a machine 'learnist'. If you feel like building your own 'intelligent' reader based on unsupervised learning, you can try https://xplr.com/developers/ https://xplr.com/developers/ (PM me for beta access). We're playing a bit with news as demo, see https://xplr.com/products/illuminate/browser/ https://xplr.com/products/illuminate/browser/ I believe there's room for more innovation, beyond the 'classic' RSS reader, without compromising on user control. This is the reason why I'm mentioning the API above here (I'm a co-founder) as I am personally unhappy with the existing readers, though Prismatic is good (though too messy for my taste and usage).
- aria 14y agoSorry to hear about that. Want to email feedback@getprismatic.com and we'll look into it and try to get it fixed ASAP
- fakeer 14y agoMy biggest problem with Prismatic is the repeated stories. I mean - come on, you can always find duplicate articles where the titles are close to 100% same.