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by PopeOfNope 4029 days ago
Are you up for some constructive criticism?

Something I noticed right off the bat: managing your rss feeds doesn't show you the whole URL you subscribed to. This is a problem for anyone who subscribes both to the posts and comments sections of blogspot blogs. After it makes contact with the site and pulls down the site name, you still have the same problem; both entries have the same name and you have no way of knowing which is which.

Maybe you should allow for somebody to click on the feed and be able to see and edit both the url and the site name?

Ok, it's fetched all my feeds now. All it shows is the title and the feed it's from. I love the simplicity of the list, but I need to be able to click on it and see the content inline. Maybe also have a "view all" button that expands everything for quick viewing?

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I agree, it is confusing not being able to differentiate between feeds with identical titles. I hadn't thought of this problem myself since I didn't encounter it.

With regards to the amount of information displayed, the initial idea was not to have any content/previews inside the reader, and just offer a list of titles that link to the actual content. Previews is a popular request, and I will definitely consider adding some text-only previews to start out with. I like the idea of the "view all" button.

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.

Update: I have implemented teaser texts. I will push it to production in ~24 hours. Right now there are very few teaser texts in the database, but in 24 hours Nimbus (the back-end for Litenin) will have updated all feeds at least once. Thanks once again.