The Bloglines Plumber again
Bloglines is up and down like a yo-yo at the moment, and I’m sick of it. I’m moving to hosting my own RSS reader. Has to be web-based. Anyone got any advances on Gregarius?
Bloglines is up and down like a yo-yo at the moment, and I’m sick of it. I’m moving to hosting my own RSS reader. Has to be web-based. Anyone got any advances on Gregarius?
I tried Gregarius a few weeks ago, but it’s not up to the task. Especially because it lacks an ‘Mark All Read’ button, so if you have more than one page of unread items (which is quite often, for me), you’re almost forced to execute a sql statement to finish up your reading.
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I’m using Gregarius. It’s serviceable, but not feature-rich. I’m treating it like the early Firefoxen — a harbinger of good things rather than the current all-in-all.
3 hours later
I just installed planet somewhere. No ‘mark as read’, but that should be easy with some javascript ;)
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If you already have a GMail account, try Google’s Reader. When I tried it when it was first released, it was terrinbly slow. And it still needs a lot of polishing, but I find it quite usable. Though somehow, not quite as good as bloglines in many ways.
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You might want to look at Temboz. “It is inspired by FeedOnFeeds (web-based personal aggregator), Google News (two column layout) and TiVo (thumbs up and down).” It’s been pretty reasonable, it’s under active development, and the author is open to suggestions and patches.
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Hm. Temboz seems to run its own web server; I might have a look at hacking it so it doesn’t do that. Not sure how the update stuff would work then, though.
7 hours later
You know, after seeing the plumber again yesterday, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Leaning towards Gregarious, though no doubt it’ll need some severe hacking.
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Currently very happy with Gregarious after about a month now. Works fine on angel too :)
Feel free to check out the installation of it in dellah.com/greg/
You can up the unread viewing to a 100, so the mark all read will mark 100 read at a time. The plugins look good, but again it is PHP so I can’t really hack my own up. Must learn PHP, I think.
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Google Reader also still has the misfeature of ups and downs, occasionally forgetting what posts you have already read, once in a while not getting access to your feed list at all, and so on.
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http://www.google.com/ig
Its my homepage these days
12 hours later
Ade: you have to have one box per feed you read, though, yes? I read about 200 feeds ;)
14 hours later
Y!’s MyWeb2.0 works well. Google Lens is a good one too.
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