scripting
Wednesday work
This is what I'm thinking about for next steps --
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Should I pre-populate the database with the submissions from the 2016 SYO project, or start with a blank slate? I'm leaning towards a blank slate. Keep it simple. But I already have the importing code written, it was one of the first bits I wrote.
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How often should I refresh the data in the feeds table? Once a day, once an hour? Basically it involves reading the feed and changing the values for title, description, htmlUrl etc.
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A related question -- I am going to hook River5 into this. There's a question of at what level to do it. Embed it, or run it as a separate forever process.
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The top level UI. Should I ask for their OPML first, or show the hotlist first? I think the text editor is very overbearing. But I don't at this time have ideas for simplifying. That's why I'm letting this settle in for a bit.
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Initial outreach is underway. I've invited several people who I've worked with in the past to join us here. There are more to come.
Something i'm not sure about:
Are users supposed to copy paste their own opml (as text) in the textarea?
Or do users provide the url of their opml file (hosted anywhere on the interopenwebs)?
Are users supposed to copy paste their own opml (as text) in the textarea?
Yes
If I asked for a URL, that would eliminate 99 percent of the possible contributors.
In fact -- I aim to solve this problem for everyone, by hosting their OPML files for them.
Big news: feedbase.io now works where it used to be rockaway.opml.org:1405.
Yes very soon if you go to the home page you will get something other than File not found.
Still diggin! ;-)
There's now a placeholder page.
http://feedbase.io/
Also a new release of the source -- v0.4.12.
Dave