It's an idea but also a question, depending on if it's already been taking into account.
When post messages hit a certain cipher (let's call it 10) the clutter the top of the list, which leaves it without any or much dynamics. A number of things can be done about this : ...
a) display the ratings from least read to most read.
b) add it to the equation by taking in charge the actual age of the posts and the views it's getting over time.
c) use several colours to indicate posts that have gone "steady", perhaps in olive green?
d) divide the display by making the cyphers from x to y collapsible so that you can easily see more of the lesser gods.
e) you display a little separation underneath the latest and lowest rated post and move all the more older top rated posts underneath.
f) ...
Add the colour code to the widget to make it blend in even better.
And perhaps a few shapes next to the traditional square.
Like round, inverted square (opposite background colour), etc.
Spanish websites do not get listed in Digg. It would be great to rank spanish posts measuring their presence in digg-like sites, like meneame.net , for example.
In general, it would be great to add "local" social-bookmark sites to rank the posts in each language.
AideRSS/Google Reader extension for Firefox is pretty cool. I have a recommendation.
After a weekend, holiday, or even overnight, AideRSS helps with the info overload. Love it.
However, during regular working hours, I'm constantly checking my RSS feeds - the minute news comes in, I read it. In this case, AideRSS is somewhat useless to me - a nuisance even. I'd recommend putting a switch in Google Reader so that AideRSS can be toggled on & off.
I would like to drastically speed up the flitering level adjustment process. There are at least three ways to do this:
#1 - Allow the user to set a default filtering level for new feeds.
#2 - When importing a block of feeds, allow the user to set a flitering level prior to the actual import process
#3 - On the "My Feeds" page, instead of dropdown lists for each feed, the page could have columns for ALL, GOOD, GREAT, and BEST and the user could check the level for each feed. This would shorten the process of click, wait for dropdown list to expand, select, repeat for each item. Alternatively (or in addition), have a global checkbox and a select action box (think of selecting a whole page of messages in gmail)
Could you include flickr favorites and inclusion into groups in postrank? This would specially come in handy in order to determine the best recent photos from groups.
I like to read my feeds by tag or all, but I like to filter at the feed level. Would it be possible when viewing by tag or all to have the option of using each individual filter that's set at the feed level?
For example, say I have Feed1 and Feed2 both with Tag1. Feed1 is set to show Great and Feed2 is set to show Best. When I click on Tag1, I'd like to see a combination of the Feed1 Great posts along with the Feed2 Best posts. Right now when viewing by tag, I have to use the same filtering level for all feeds with that tag.
Perhaps this can be called "Mixed" and be available when viewing by tag or all. Selecting "Mixed" will use the individual filtering levels from each feed. The other filters (Best, Great, etc.) could still be available at the tag/all level as well.
I found (from readwriteweb) that you did integrate aiderss into Newsgator, I use newsgator go on my blackberry. It seems great, I like it very much. But I hope it will be available in Newsgator Go for some time!
First off: Great responsiveness on the API token removal. Thanks!
Second, Feedback:
1) Not having Greasemonkey is a deal-breaker. (I'm not the first to say it, but it's true).
2) The thing is slow in calculating post-rank for posts it presumable has never seen. Slow enough that it does not yet save time for me in Google Reader.
3) You're overall idea is excellent
4) What I'd like to see: Have a personal component to ranking. I.e. Every time I star a post in google reader, share a post in google reader, actually read a post in google reader, click through to the post in google reader, take note. You can use those for your post ranking, if you'd like. Then: integrate stats from this with the Google Reader Trends page. Give me stats on my different feeds based on the actions i've mentioned. This would greatly help me in feed managment decisions. Feeds that I've had for a while and have never received such a positive action (or few) would become candidates for deletion. Feeds which have a high number of such actions would be candidates for promotion to a higher priority folder. (I have various levels).
5) Thx for your work. RSS feed/post prioritization tools are desperately needed.
I'd like the extension to work with tags (or All Items, I suppose) because I have a lot of feeds that I read and by tag is the only reasonable way to read it all. As it is now aideRSS isn't something I'll ever see or use.
1)AideRSS needs a way to rename feeds in the "My Feeds" page and in the page where posts are reveiwed.
2) AideRSS needs a way to select "PostRank" based on the numerical scale, not just "good","great", or "best".
3)AideRSS needs to clean up the page-reader interface. There is too much information scattered over the page and not enough white space; it overloads the reader with choices and distracts from the main focus: reading posts.
First of all - thank you for great product.
1. Urgently needed support for Google Reader "All Items" folder (that is so much needed...)
2. If there is no diggs, why not to show "Submit to Digg" instead?
3. Save my preferred choice (All/Good/Best) when I change the folder. The best is to save it even when I log off)