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read/unread items count
I am sure you thaught about this,too. I just want to mention that this is crucial to my decision to use brizzly or not.
I definetly need a read /unread item count/marking like google reader or twitter desktops apps.
And what would be absolutely awesome, would be a notifier for the quicklaunch bar on a mac (like gmail notifier).
Ass soon as this is available, i promise to tell the whole world how awesome you are ;-)
I definetly need a read /unread item count/marking like google reader or twitter desktops apps.
And what would be absolutely awesome, would be a notifier for the quicklaunch bar on a mac (like gmail notifier).
Ass soon as this is available, i promise to tell the whole world how awesome you are ;-)
I’m would make me feel happy
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The company has not planned to implement this.
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Inappropriate?Haroon, hopefully we can still convince you that Brizzly is a fun, useful and compelling tool without that feature. While the number counts in Google Reader or Gmail are interesting, they often times don't serve much of a purpose, particularly when item overload sets in. Reader even has a "1000+" indicator because people fall rapidly behind. I helped start the Google Reader project at Google and feel in retrospect that we should not have created, yet another inbox with all of the pressures to respond, read, etc. without providing very easy ways to dismiss those numbers. In Twitter streams, this is even more important to keep the feeling breezy, light and unencumbered. When we turn Twitter into yet another inbox, then I think we may have failed. Twitter and Brizzly in turn don't have number indicators. We do have "new item' indicators but anything more might not achieve what we have in mind for our simple, fun web application.
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This is one of the best points
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I understand your perspective, but at the same time this is an extremely important feature for me. A great thing about Brizzly is that I can add people to groups without following them. This is nice for celebrities and people who update often but whose messages I only occasionally want to read (this is the update stream that I like, as you put it, to be breezy, light, and unencumbered).
However, I have a core group of friends and contacts whose messages I am always interested in; these are the people who show up in my home feed and I like to be alerted when there are new messages from these people. For me, twitter is almost two separate services in this respect (in fact, before Brizzly, I used two different accounts to make this easier to manage). It would certainly save me time from manually checking if I could see the unread messages from this core group of contacts in the page title, as in (for example) gmail or google wave. Because only the people I really care about are in my home feed, my unread count would not mushroom (as is often the case with google reader).
Your reasoning for not including this feature is really "your way of using Twitter is wrong," which seems a bit strange to me. What about making this an opt-in setting for those of us who use the service a bit differently?
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