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Add dynamic OPML support
Would you please consider adding support for dynamic OPML subscriptions?
When a remote OPML would get updated, so would Feedly. Note that I'm talking about *any* OPML, not just someone's list of Google Reader subscriptions. It would imply that Feedly would poll the remote server hosting someone's OPML every so often to check whether the OPML has changed. If a change is detected, Feedly automatically synchronizes its own version of the OPML file with the remotely hosted one. This feature prevents feed lists and blog rolls from growing stale.
For an example of the ultimate implementation of this feature check out cross-platform RSS feed reader BlogBridge, which allows both OPML subscriptions and dynamic OPML publishing.
When a remote OPML would get updated, so would Feedly. Note that I'm talking about *any* OPML, not just someone's list of Google Reader subscriptions. It would imply that Feedly would poll the remote server hosting someone's OPML every so often to check whether the OPML has changed. If a change is detected, Feedly automatically synchronizes its own version of the OPML file with the remotely hosted one. This feature prevents feed lists and blog rolls from growing stale.
For an example of the ultimate implementation of this feature check out cross-platform RSS feed reader BlogBridge, which allows both OPML subscriptions and dynamic OPML publishing.
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Inappropriate?This is a top notch suggestion. -
Inappropriate?Hi CleverClogs. I am one of the co-founders of feedly. Thank you for this suggestion: Agree with David. This indeed a top notch suggestion.
We do something like this already with Google Reader but we could for non google reader users allow them to define a dynamic master OPML.
I think that the biggest problem here will be authentication: we already need Google Authentication, if the OPML you want feedly to point to is authenticated, then feedly will need to make sure that you are logged in to that source before it can load.
If we were to start with one sample dynamic OPML which one would you recommend? -
Inappropriate?Just for the fun of it, why don't you use the OPML of my Twitter News Radar? It's quite dynamic, as I add new blogs and news feeds several times a week.
You can find it at http://cleverclogs.blogbridge.com/fol.... Note that several of my other public reading lists are available at the base URL http://cleverclogs.blogbridge.com.
Alternatively, use Power 150 (Marketing blogs) by AdAge - http://adage.com/power150/opml
There are tons of public OPMLs out there, so do ask if you need more pointers.
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This is one of the best points
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Thanks...I start to better understand the use case. Do you think that one user might want to subscribe to multiple of those dynamic OPMLs? And if so many a solution could be able to create a new tab in feedly and map it to one of those dynamic OPMLs? (in which case the OPML would be flatten into a single list of sources). -
Inappropriate?Update: Talked to the team about this on Friday night and did some more thinking over the week end. I am *very* excited about this idea. Need to finish a couple of this but will start to work on a prototype Thursday/Friday. Will update this thread as we make progress.2 Comments Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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Wonderful, Edwin. I've been promoting dynamic-OPML support to quite a few other RSS tool vendors in the past and it's very rewarding for me to receive such a positive response from you now. For inspiration, do have a look at the BlogBridge implementation.
In the mean time, I badly need to catch up with what all that feedly has to offer. To be honest, Its tight connection to Google Reader was a turn off for me before. Looking forward to see wonderful things grow from this idea. -
Will look at BlogBridge.
You mentioned "Its tight connection to Google Reader was a turn off for me before". I am curious why this was the case. -
Inappropriate?I have no objection against discussing my aversion against Google Reader, but I just don't think this thread is the right place for doing that extensively. It basically boils down to how poorly it handles OPML, its lack of feed categorization management, misinterpretation of the date field in atom feeds and its intermittent slow performance. Note that some of these issues may have been resolved in the mean time.
I've made several attempts to 'like' Google Reader, but somehow it just doesn't click with me and there are alternatives that suit my RSS reading needs much better. Note that my needs may not match with those of the average user. I build extensive reading lists and hence collect, categorize, manage and filter thousands of feeds.
P.S.: FYI: I'm not a Gmail fan either...
I’m glad I got that off my chest.
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