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flamaest · 10-05-2007, 02:56 PM

I love the feedbooks site BTW!

About the public vs private feed issue:

When a user adds an RSS feed to their account, feedbooks should catalog that feed and update it's own public repository of all feeds added by all users, so the site is not connected to any single user's list of private feeds.

About dealing with Newspapers and RSS feeds:

I would suggest making user newspapers simple aggregations of RSS feeds, but keep the actual RSS feeds as a separate source list for the user to manage.

So the user would have an RSS feed list and a newspaper list.

When you create a newspaper, the RSS feed list should show up and individual RSS feeds would be selectable with a checkbox indicating which RSS feeds belong in that newspaper.

When you delete the newspaper, the RSS feed list remains for addition into a new newspaper.

When a user deletes an RSS feed by itself, the feed should be removed from any of the user's newspaper/s which has this RSS feed listed.

About the caching feature:

I would also recommend seeing about implementing the caching feature mentioned before in the thread. I have noticed at certain times of the day, most of the downloaded PDF feeds are empty, but later in the day they will contain data.

Sort of like something is timing out and just feeding a PDF with no content.

I mostly don't care if the feed is a few hours old. At most I will pull daily so if I miss an article or two it won't matter much.

PS: I am buying the Sony cradle and was wondering if the FB-sync tool was working with libprs500 yet?

Thanks again,
Fabian.

10-05-2007, 02:56 PM	#137
flamaest Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 1044459 Join Date: Jul 2007 Device: prs-500	I love the feedbooks site BTW! About the public vs private feed issue: When a user adds an RSS feed to their account, feedbooks should catalog that feed and update it's own public repository of all feeds added by all users, so the site is not connected to any single user's list of private feeds. About dealing with Newspapers and RSS feeds: I would suggest making user newspapers simple aggregations of RSS feeds, but keep the actual RSS feeds as a separate source list for the user to manage. So the user would have an RSS feed list and a newspaper list. When you create a newspaper, the RSS feed list should show up and individual RSS feeds would be selectable with a checkbox indicating which RSS feeds belong in that newspaper. When you delete the newspaper, the RSS feed list remains for addition into a new newspaper. When a user deletes an RSS feed by itself, the feed should be removed from any of the user's newspaper/s which has this RSS feed listed. About the caching feature: I would also recommend seeing about implementing the caching feature mentioned before in the thread. I have noticed at certain times of the day, most of the downloaded PDF feeds are empty, but later in the day they will contain data. Sort of like something is timing out and just feeding a PDF with no content. I mostly don't care if the feed is a few hours old. At most I will pull daily so if I miss an article or two it won't matter much. PS: I am buying the Sony cradle and was wondering if the FB-sync tool was working with libprs500 yet? Thanks again, Fabian. Last edited by flamaest; 10-06-2007 at 01:14 AM.