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Created my own RSS Reader Nuesbyte
I would love some feedback!
- 7hundredand77 14y agoI would love to hear what people think of it. I plan on doing a few updates, including adding a mobile version and adding Google Reader import ability.
- yvoschaap2 14y agoWhat is your crawler backend? Superfeedr? Home made?
- 7hundredand77 14y agoHome made
- rbrcurtis 14y agoDo you need any help with this project, specifically with the backend and scaling? My email is in my profile if so.
- Saming 14y agoI'd love to see a compact list view. This really is what I look for in any RSS client.
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThat I can add with other personalisation features!
- cm3 14y agomobile version would be great
- 7hundredand77 14y agoTo be added after Google Reader Imports.
- callil 14y agoWow, I'm really enjoying using this, slick looking too. I really like all the little touches you've added, the UX is great. I think you've come the closest yet to the simplicity that google reader offered. I would try as hard as possible to maintain the feeling of simplicity in your design even when adding more features. A few feature requests, feed importing, profile editing and a larger feed view (maybe collapse the sidebars?) also folders to be able to sort feeds you've added and the respective views. edit: updated some things
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThanks for the feedback, those are certainly on my list. I have only finished the most basics! Next is adding all these features :)
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThe feeds are also a folder you can put more feeds into, rename, etc. Unless you refer to folders inside folders?
- callil 14y agoAh ok, I see now. I think that interaction could be a bit more clear. I would be nice to be able to drag and drop the feeds in and out of the site groups, as well as expand/collapse the groups on the "News" page. Also, when I added a feed, it wasn't immediately clear that I was making a folder because it grabs the name of the feed, I thought I had just added a standalone feed to my general list.
- 7hundredand77 14y agoI understand. I like the drag and drop idea. Its clean and simple. Ill see what I can do about making the folder more clear by changing the icon of the new 'group' to look like a folder!
- Xion 14y ago> the UX is great. The UX is indeed very nice. Just a small issue: FF19 on OSX 10.8.3 displays a horizontal scrollbar. Looks like a margin or padding problem with the central feed element.
- cm3 14y agono https?
- 7hundredand77 14y agoIs it something people want?
- sideproject 14y agonot me.
- cm3 14y agoDefinitely because you can sign up and login. For anonymous reading less so.
- hellerbarde 14y agoTo have this said first: I really like your reader, it looks beautiful and so far it's the one that I'd most like to use. In the wake of the Announcement of Google Reader shutting down, a lot of people are gonna be wary of jumping into another service that could go down any time. What are your mid-/long-term plans for keeping this online? Will there be monetization through ads? Through a subscription? Or are you planning to open source it for self-hosting? A last important question, can I export my data? cheers hellerbarde edit: updated question
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThis is a great comment. It really chews into some of the things I have been thinking about for the future. Right now I have decided to keep it a free services with no ads. Though as most sites, of course I would like to make money from it, which goes hand in hand with improving it continually. I have never thought of the idea of exporting data, however with the OO way I have created the database, I can definitely add this in. GReader imports are something I have to work on next. My focus for this start has been to keep it clean, simple and fast. Because of that I worked on the optimising code for weeks. (the server is based in Australia, thus, better hosting online will definitely speed it up).
- 7hundredand77 14y agoTo address your question better, the plan has now turned into creating a subscription services which will allow to setup better services whilst keeping traffic standardised to a medium that allows us to grow the server farm as more people join. Development is underway to turn it into a fully scalable system for future growth, whilst continually adding features etc.
- sabe__ 14y agoYou have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND date > NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 0 , 10' at line 1
- 7hundredand77 14y agoIll have to check the manual!
- revorad 14y agoNuesbyte is definitely one of the better Google reader alternatives out there. Love the layout and simplicity. Added to my list - http://ginicharts.com/google-reader-alternatives http://ginicharts.com/google-reader-alternatives
- nicpottier 14y agoThis looks really promising, actually signed up which is saying something because I've always leaned towards just using actual websites despite having built a few mobile RSS readers myself. I am a bit confused with some UI elements though (perhaps because I wasn't a heavy Google Reader user): 1) Subscriptions are for grouping feeds ya? I see how I can create a new subscription and name it, but I'm totally failing on how to add a feed to it. If you go to the RSS page I see things I want to add, but no plus button or other interaction seems to do what I expect. Am I just confused? 2) Not sure if this is a setting somewhere, but having full articles open in a new tab would be nice. 3) Is there a way to set all the items in a single subscription as read? 4) What is the column on the right? Popular items? Some label there might be good. Overall super cool, I like it! Keep it up man. If you continue developing it, consider a Bitcoin tip jar, I'd throw some your way.
- 7hundredand77 14y agoAh. You createa group and click on it (its highlighted) and then you move to the right side, and click on the feeds you want, you can use the input to search for feeds, or, put the feed directly into the input box. The column on the right its popular views in your feed selection. The 'views' should hopefully outline this fact. I agree I have to setup a better method (or instructions) on how to add feeds to a group
- nicpottier 14y agoAh, ok.. Ya I think I was clicking on the link title before perhaps? I see it works if I click on the box instead. Just having a + button there would do worlds to explain that process I think. Thanks.
- davidfm 14y agoYou need to add top:0; left:0 on your fixed topbar for android browser - good job btw
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThanks ill add that in!
- wyclif 14y agoI like it so far. I would encourage you to keep improving it, because as things stand now you're at the top of my list of GReader replacements. I like that Nuesbyte is in the browser and doesn't require a client. Importing my feeds from GReader will be great. Also on my wishlist: vi-style movement keys (j,k,l) &c. Thanks!
- k_bx 14y agoj/k navigation?
- machbio 14y agoIts funny that deleting all the RSS feeds - will result in the MYSQL Error... Look into it developer... You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND date > NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 0 , 10' at line 1
- 7hundredand77 14y agoThats for the exact info, I have since updated it!
- mst 14y agoSounds to me like insufficiently intelligent IN clause generation - a mistake I've made at least once and seen many more times. I'm guessing english isn't your first language from the way you misconjugated the "will result" part but "look into it developer" comes across as "you suck and I am laughing at you" whereas for an early stage service I think "here's a bug report" is rather more appropriate.
- berberous 14y agoThe design is great but it's really slow. Which I'll forgive because it's new, and this post is probably giving you new traffic, but to be a replacement for GReader, I want it to be as close to instantaneous as possible. This is also why I don't use Feedly. It's slow!
- 7hundredand77 14y agoDefinitely due to too much traffic, its just a cheap shared hosting site in Australia. I will definitely have to bump it up.
- AYBABTME 14y agoI'm getting: Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later From click to click.
- leephillips 14y agoLooks promising, but I clicked on a story and got a mysql error. Do you have pubsubhubbub support? That's the first thing[0] I look for in a feed reader. [0]http://lee-phillips.org/newsblurred/ http://lee-phillips.org/newsblurred/
- 7hundredand77 14y agoI haven't heard of it, I will look into adding it. In terms of mysql error, the site is getting way more traffic than my simple hosting provider can provide. I will need to bumb it up.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoCurrently it's returning this: > Resource Limit Is Reached > The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.
- dombili 14y agoLooks promising, but I only get to use it for a minute, then I started getting 508 errors. If it gets more stable and faster, I may consider switching to this from the Old Reader.
- Vinnix 14y agoAwesome, Would you ever go into detail why you did it ? I wrote a personal app over year ago called DashBored (I suspected this was gonna happen when the big CO's were all about API restrictions). Thanks,
- 7hundredand77 14y agoSure. I have been musing over building a website for a long time. I knew that to build something new was difficult. So I wanted to build something cleaner, faster and simpler than other people. News is the number one thing that people often seek on the internet, and thus, that is the path I went down. Originally, it was just a site that I created as a hobby for myself to view, but as i progressed, quite a few people liked it, and then Google Reader died, and I thought, this would be a good opportunity.
- eddywebs 14y agovery slick, any framework used for developing the application ?
- asperous 14y agoI saw this before (you posted it on some blog or something), and I really liked the design. I really hope you are able to scale it up for public use!
- rtpg 14y agosuper slick. Are there any keyboard shortcuts though? I need my 'n' key
- 7hundredand77 14y agoyes