New Year – New Code
I’ve just checked in version 0.4999… (as in, not quite 0.5) to Google Code. You’re just one
svn checkout http://feed-on-feeds.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ feed-on-feeds
from trying it out! (NB: has not been tested on IE.) Bug reports and discussions here or on the mailing list are welcome.
There is no “upgrade” from a previous version of FoF, but you can import your old subscriptions in an OPML file.
Needs the “Flag all up to this item” link for articles.
You can double click on the checkbox to select all items up to and including that one…. but I agree it should be more obvious how to do that.
Hrm, has anyone tried to install this yet? Can’t seem to get it working.
Just a thought – is there a way to watch what stories the user most frequently clicks on and to then produce a kind of super-feed containing similiar or related items ?
Nice to see the project finally had a release. For now I will probably stick with monkeychow for my RSS feeds.
I don’t use IE7, so some errors that it lets you get by with show up. In the sidebar.php there is a line at the top:
header(”Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8″);
which apparently is already set by another file so I would get an error on the sidebar. I commented out that line in sidebar.php and it worked fine.
I’ve been using feed-on-feeds ever since it started going by that name, and one of the “improvements” I have made was to have the articles open in a separate window or tab instead of replacing the feed-on-feeds window using a target=”blank” tag. I don’t know if others would find that useful, but I apply this patch every time I upgrade.
I like the new code, it’s easier to go through. Glad there has been some work done on it.
Very cool application. I’ve been looking for an open source application that stores feeds in a database for a few days, finally found the pot of gold!
I encountered a small bug when browsing in IE7 which I’ll report shortly when I’ve got the details to hand, but generally it looks good.
Have you considered expanding the scope a little to meet the needs of webmasters who want to incorporate feeds in their site. I think theres a large potential market there.
Ideas
I envisage a very similiar look and feel but with the output publicly available and embedded into a website/cms perhaps through some templating engine. Also hoping to add some basic article voting/rating functionality. Finally to add the icing on the cake, tweak the html so it opens up the article in a frame, with the original website as a small menu frame above or to the left of the article. (In a similiar way to http://silktide.com website ratings, or http://torrents.to)
I’ll probably attempt to build this over the weekend. Wish me luck, I’ll probably end up asking you a ton of questions about your code at some point anyway. Good luck with your journey to 0.5!