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by conesus 15y ago
Overcyn, This is phenomenal. Were you a Windows Media Plyaer v8-v11 user? The playlist on the side reminds me of my favorite feature from the WMP8 days, where I could queue up music even while another album played. It was wonderful, and whe
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by conesus 15y ago
What could be improved about NewsBlur?
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by conesus 15y ago
Hey, NewsBlur's developer here. What didn't you like about NewsBlur? Lots in the pipeline, but I loves hearing what's off-putting so I can fix it for everybody.
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by conesus 15y ago
Hardly full-time. I have 45 minutes in the morning on Caltrain, and 45 minutes back. I work 3-4 hours on one of the weekend days, and occasionally an hour or two on weekday nights. For 28 months now.
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by conesus 15y ago
At one point I changed the name to Protoread, meaning Read the Original [site]. It took about 24 hours before I switched to Protopub. And then 3 days later, right back to NewsBlur. To be honest, I used the word blur because when following d
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by conesus 15y ago
Actually, I'm nearing 500 premium users. That's the number of premium users using NewsBlur in the past 24 hours . In fact, all of those stats are aggregate for the past 24 hours. It's the kind of transparency that I think goes hand-in-hand
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by conesus 15y ago
Specifically the A train. But I have since moved to San Francisco, so now much of it is built on MUNI (N train) and Caltrain. But boy do I miss the focus that being on a crowded and uncomfortable subway car brings you.
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by conesus 15y ago
Yes, it does, but setting up a premium account for yourself is not automatic. You need to know how to read code to do it. Here are the relevant Python commands: >>> u = User.objects.get(username='StavrosK') >>&
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by conesus 15y ago
Open-source doesn't have to mean non-profit. I make money with premium accounts -- accounts are free up until 64 feeds. Also, feeds are updated more often for premium users (but only for feeds that they are the sole subscriber, otherwise th
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by conesus 15y ago
A ton has happened in the past year since I launched NewsBlur. River of News, iPhone app, Android app, an official API, major speed improvements on both the backend and frontend, a public user-support forum, and many, many user-customizatio
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by conesus 15y ago
Went ahead and fixed that: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/658a15701af7b6...
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by conesus 15y ago
It's also open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay . I'm very proud of the fact that I have taken in lots of input from the community and even some code.
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by conesus 15y ago
Social features are planned. The mobile app is juuuuust about done, and then Search, and a few customizations (mark as unread, oldest to newest, etc). Then I'm going to attack social and get some really wonderful and innovative community fe
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by conesus 15y ago
It's just where I spend my time. It's not a huge priority. Also, many users, about 50%, don't have an email address. I made this choice to simplify signup, but the fact is that some folks just cannot recover their password automatically. I'
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by conesus 15y ago
We just have the same taste. :-)
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by conesus 15y ago
You have a skinny window. Resize by 200 pixels and it'll grow.
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by conesus 15y ago
By oldest first, you mean oldest stories first? This is a prioritized feature: http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/reading_from_old_... . I've been sitting on it since very few users have asked for it, but I have intentions of build
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by conesus 15y ago
It's pretty minimal. Notice you don't even see a logo when you're reading sites. The dashboard is a bit dense, but the browsing experience can be customized.
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by conesus 15y ago
Clear and powerful voice, highly influential, and an eye for good design. And it makes for a great demo of NewsBlur's Original view. Also, folders are alphabetical and I wanted to put it above the Blogs folder.
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by conesus 15y ago
NewsBlur gets attention here because it's built by an active HNer, me. And it's entirely open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay . Follow me on GitHub to watch how quickly NewsBlur grows everyday. In fact, the NewsBlur iPhone app is also
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by conesus 15y ago
It was probably the less benign `frck`.
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by conesus 15y ago
From his 2005 Stanford commencement speech: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all
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by conesus 15y ago
I actually only use machine learning to present options for you to filter or highlight. Everything is explicit, which means you know exactly what you're missing and what's getting highlighted. (I refer to filter and highlight, but NewsBlur
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by conesus 15y ago
I mentioned this to Marco and it's why I built NewsBlur, http://www.newsblur.com , specifically for folks like me who follow a few dozen (even a hundred or more) blogs written by a single author. You want to engage with that author on thei
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by conesus 15y ago
I use reliablehostingservices.net. Been solid for about 6 months now. Billing sucks (credit card for every server because I bought a few of them at different times -- so different billing cycles), but that's part of the benefit.
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by conesus 15y ago
After reading Maciej's last post about his "cathedral" of a server, I moved NewsBlur off of half a dozen Linode VPSs (512MB and 2GB machines, for app/task and db respectively) and onto a hosting provider that offered both dedicated bare met
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by conesus 15y ago
It depends on the site. It can be slow on ridiculously huge sites (ahem, TechCrunch, Gothamist, Macrumors, etc), but in that case you can just switch them to the Feed view instead of the Original view. The Feed view is instantaneous and it'
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by conesus 15y ago
About two-way sync: it wouldn't make sense. Since NewsBlur hides stories below your intelligence threshold, many stories would be unread in Reader but simply hidden in NewsBlur. That, and the whole story sync problem would be a huge bear. I
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by conesus 15y ago
Been working on it for 2 years now. But only as a side-project. I also worked on it on the A train in NYC for a year, about 30 minutes each direction. And I now get to work on it for an hour and a half a day when on Caltrain (SF -> Moun
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by conesus 15y ago
You mean like a bookmarklet? Manage > Goodies has a bunch of browser-specific hacks to make the RSS button go to NewsBlur. There's also a bookmarklet that lets you add a site to a folder (and create a folder if you want) from the site i

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