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16 points by sammy0910 17 days ago
4 comments
sixtyj 17 days ago
> I found the algorithm nudged me toward emptier, clickbatier content.

I appreciate the effort as RSS is the best way to read a lot of sources but is login/signup really needed?

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sammy0910 17 days ago
you can click any of the demo boxes on the home page to use it without signing up

if you want to save your preferences though, we _do_ need you to sign up, so that we can save who you follow, etc. to a database.

e.g. here is a direct link to the top headlines: https://sprinklz.io/demo/headlineNews

glad you're feeling this way too!

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lindnertim 17 days ago
It should be: Demos: (no login required) Some may think it redundant. Not me.
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sammy0910 11 days ago
I added more info to the about section explaining signup.

I also want to make the 'Demos' text better, but I'm still working out exactly what it should say. Unfortunately if I remove '(click a box below)', people don't know they can click on it lol.

I'm thinking maybe "Try It Live (click a box below)" or maybe "Demos (click a box to try it first)", but idk its hard to get it right without adding visual noise. I agree though, and want to make it better.

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amboo7 13 days ago
I have my own. One Telegram bot for reading, summarizing etc. (using a local Qwen 3.6), another for improving it (OpenCode Telegram, free DeepSeek V4). I might put it on github soon.
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wyattsell 17 days ago
I get a "failed to load feed with name home" on first load. Recurs on hard refresh
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sammy0910 17 days ago
hm -- are you doing anything spicy with your browser?

i tried signup on chrome/firefox/safari + demos and i can't manage to repro.

im assuming this is after submitting signup?

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wyattsell 17 days ago
This is without logging in, on: https://sprinklz.io/feed/home. Occurs in incognito too. Nothing blocked on the network so seems client side.
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sammy0910 17 days ago
i have a guess at what's happening, but it would be a little bit of an unusual/edge case -- i made a backend change and it should maybe work now in this case?

if not i will crawl into the deep cave for a longer debugging session

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niles 16 days ago
Dark Reader on FF mobile can't redraw for some reason. Too bright white !
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sammy0910 16 days ago
yes -- Sprinklz supports custom themes, and there's no good way to support the combination of custom themes + dark mode.

See: https://sprinklz.io/demo/editThemes for an example. (on nonmobile if you want to see the on-screen editor)

We _could_ run something like https://github.com/sstraust/automagic-dark-mode , but I decided against it, because it makes for a confusing user experience. idk -- i wanted to support dark mode, but it's hard to make these tradeoffs correctly.

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