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PostRank usage pattern - is my idea right?
I am considering different usage patterns for PostRank, and the following idea seems to me to be most reasonable. But before working on it I'd like to hear the comments:
My aims:
- to be able to "keep an eye" on a lot of feeds without being overwhelmed by a lot of content
- to be able to easily add/remove feeds, and tune their filtering params
My idea:
- tag all feeds into limited number of thematic channels
- subscribe those channel feeds in my reader
- use PostRank extension to add new feeds (add to PostRank and tag using one of the channel tags), remove feeds (just remove tag if I want to remove temporarily, even more often just filter by All) or modify feeds filtering
- keep fixed list of subscriptions in my reader (except adding new channel at rare occassions)
Will it work properly? In particular, will channel feed properly adapt to changes in underlying feed tags/filters?
My aims:
- to be able to "keep an eye" on a lot of feeds without being overwhelmed by a lot of content
- to be able to easily add/remove feeds, and tune their filtering params
My idea:
- tag all feeds into limited number of thematic channels
- subscribe those channel feeds in my reader
- use PostRank extension to add new feeds (add to PostRank and tag using one of the channel tags), remove feeds (just remove tag if I want to remove temporarily, even more often just filter by All) or modify feeds filtering
- keep fixed list of subscriptions in my reader (except adding new channel at rare occassions)
Will it work properly? In particular, will channel feed properly adapt to changes in underlying feed tags/filters?
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?Yep, you got it! Channels dynamically merge your content from all of your feeds, applying filtering preferences for each feed.
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Inappropriate?I gave this idea a try and ... it does not seem to be truly working. Here are the problems:
1) Due to the lack of tag autocompletion/hinting (reported separately) it is very difficult to tag new feeds properly. Also, the web interface does not offer any reasonable support for tag reorganizations (like tag renaming, sorting feeds by tags, reporting untagged items and such)
2) It is also difficult to track which channels are subscribed, there is no indicator
3) (mentioned separately) One can not batch-subscribe all channels, there is no OPML export
4) Channel feeds have very ugly, very long titles with numeric identifiers embedded.
5) There is no information about the blog from which the post is taken (reader shows channel as the feed name - properly). IMO the blog name should be shown somehow (maybe appended to the title, in brackets?). So I find myself forced to open the original page if I want to check where does it belong.
6) Whenever I update the feed settings (in the extension), I am redirected to the feed itself. This makes the browser to start subscribing process for the individual feed. Very irritating.
I will play with it a bit more, but I feel some development would be needed to make the channel subscriptions really worth it.
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?There was a question what do I mean by 2) Simply: a possibility to take a look at my channels and see which are subcribed as feeds, and which are not. So for example I can quickly locate tags I forgot to subscribe (or added recently and not subscribed yet)1 Comment
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Ah, now we're on the same page.
It's a tricky problem in this case, since we don't have any reliable way of determining if you're actually subscribed to each of the channels. Having said that, we have a solution coming, and I think you'll like it!
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