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)
Ok. I feel pretty dumb. It finally dawned on me how to use aideRSS properly.
Originally, I just imported all my RSS feeds (in OPML format) into aiderss and it generates a single feed that has the best posts from all my feeds.
That's how I used aideRSS since it came out until today...
Today I realized why there's a text box for you to type in the URL at the front page, aideRSS is meant to be used as a feed scrubber!
You put in a feed, for example, lifehacker.com and then you pick your "choosiness" level. For example, if I only allow "Good" posts in, then that eliminates half the posts on lifehacker. If set to "Great" posts only, then I would only see 20% of the posts.
Once the RSS is piped through aideRSS, I can get back a filtered RSS feed, that I then put back into NetNewsWire.
And voila, I only see the more important posts from the really prolific sites like lifehacker.
Also, I realized that I've been using the "My Feeds" preferences completely wrong... I thought "Great" was supposed to mark a blog as my favorite -- thus adjusting its ranking to give it more boost. It means the exact opposite!! "Great" means this blog is relatively crappy, so you only want to allow the creme of the crop.
I don't know if other people ran into the same thing. There might be some UI design lessons in here.
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Ilya Grigorik (Official Rep)
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on July 03, 2008 19:27
