my personal news reader
Productivity
news reader
SHOW HN2012
my personal news reader
I saw these issues last night but couldn't work out what was causing them.
skimfeed.com108points
78comments
#197of 1,677 in 2012
Top 12%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Design: 6 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, fast-loading layout that is easy to skim
From 4 comments
I absolutely love this - now my new homepage. This is a very pleasant way to present this to my eyes. Even more importantly, it loads 'instantly', which is extremely important…
tcgore on HNExcellent design. Within 5 seconds of visiting your site, I understood what it does and how it would be useful to me, and bookmarked it.
enraged_camel on HNCool stuff! I like brief little news feeds like this. They get to the point, there's not clutter with distracting pictures, etc. It's simple and all that's necessary. On my…
mathewsimonton on HNI really like this, it makes skimming the major news sites very easy. It looks like a quick way to view the news in the morning. I could probably scan all those and open the ones…
k-mcgrady on HN
Good collection of news sources
From 2 comments
Very nice collection. Few sites I never heard of. Thanks for sharing. Btw, You Mentioned Amazon and Google Ad-sense in Privacy policy. I don't see any Ads, have any plan to keep…
yogrish on HNAbsolutely love it. Thanks for the share.
brianritchie on HN
Objections
Fixed social share buttons are distracting
From 3 comments
I like it. May I suggest getting rid of the fixed social sharing buttons? The ones at the bottom do the job well enough. I find the top ones a little bit distracting. Good font…
MatthewPhillips on HNI used jimmyr.com all these years. Might as well switch to this. Hate those fixed social buttons though.
sa1f on HNTheNextWeb appears twice on the page: first one after Mashable, and second after Geek. But, only the first four items are same in both lists. Fetched from different feed URLs?…
prakashk on HN
Source code quality and HTML escaping issues
From 2 comments
I love the comment in the top of your source: <!-- THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO BE LEARNING HTML, CSS OR JAVASCRIPT. THIS CODE IS OF EXCEPTIONALLY POOR QUALITY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.…
whalesalad on HNYou have a few escaping issues, that Firefox nicely hi-lights if you view the source. For example, if the title of an article contains a ", you don't quote it, so in the html you…
grepular on HN
Too many sources make the page very long
From 2 comments
That is a really huge list.
denzil_correa on HNI think it would be worth adding some way to filter/hide the sources. I like the idea of the whole thing, especially the simplicity, but I don't read nearly as many news sources…
dtnguyen1 on HN
Requests
Customizable feeds and ability to filter or hide sources
From 2 comments
This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout. If you made this a service, here's what would make me…
nollidge on HNI think it would be worth adding some way to filter/hide the sources. I like the idea of the whole thing, especially the simplicity, but I don't read nearly as many news sources…
dtnguyen1 on HN
Larger line-height for easier reading
From 3 comments
May i suggest line-height: 160% I know it will take away a few links from the viewarea but you will be able to read them faster IMHO.
ThomPete on HNYes, this ^ please! Perhaps a toggle of some sort?
brianfryer on HNGreat tool, I'd maybe change font and line-height to make for easier reading -> http://i.imgur.com/7PSvi.png
adamcollingburn on HN
Links for titles and open-in-background clicks working
From 3 comments
Nice work and thanks for sharing. If you can add hyperlinks to each title, it will be helpful (e.g clicking on "Make" should take me to make.com).
seshagiric on HNFor whatever reason I can't CMD-Click an article without being taken straight to it. I normally like to open a load of links in the background then read them one by one.
Hates_ on HNIt's more a case of them being set to _BLANK instead of _blank. If I edit the src to be the correct lowercase version, CMD-Clicking works as it should.
Hates_ on HN
Mark read or visited items
From 2 comments
This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout. If you made this a service, here's what would make me…
nollidge on HNGreat collection of sources, but please, mark :visited links!
lardissone on HN
Remove the social buttons
From 2 comments
I like it. May I suggest getting rid of the fixed social sharing buttons? The ones at the bottom do the job well enough. I find the top ones a little bit distracting. Good font…
MatthewPhillips on HNTheNextWeb appears twice on the page: first one after Mashable, and second after Geek. But, only the first four items are same in both lists. Fetched from different feed URLs?…
prakashk on HN
Questions
Does the page auto-refresh?
From 1 comment
I had a secondary thought. Does this page auto refresh? Can I just leave it open on a separate virtual desktop... or do I need to refresh it?
tseabrooks on HN
Will ads be added to make revenue?
From 1 comment
Very nice collection. Few sites I never heard of. Thanks for sharing. Btw, You Mentioned Amazon and Google Ad-sense in Privacy policy. I don't see any Ads, have any plan to keep…
yogrish on HN
Alternatives named
Popurls
From 1 comment
It's like http://www.popurls.com: really good aggregator.
SnaKeZ on HN
NetVibes
From 1 comment
This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout. If you made this a service, here's what would make me…
nollidge on HN
NewsBlur
From 1 comment
isn't this an un-customized version of http://www.newsblur.com/ ?
chrishan on HN
Pulse
From 1 comment
Although I like the idea, I personally prefer Pulse.me. It has pictures and resized articles according to their significance. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/W1NKw.png
krigath on HN