#dev 2023-12-06

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lockywolf Can someone criticize my "requirements analysis for a good feed reader"? https://lockywolf.net/2023-12-05_how-to-make-a-good-feed-reader.d/index.html
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IWDiscord <s​tarrwulfe#0> Here's an example of how I'd like CraftDocs to be the CMS for my site...
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IWDiscord <s​tarrwulfe#0> https://starrwulfe.craft.me/blog-post-examples
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[snarfed] lockywolf user req'ts for feed readers are infamously broad and disjoint, ie there are multiple types of users who want drastically different things from a feed reader. an ex Google Reader PM did a famous deep postmortem years ago on this. it's probably more or less impossible to come up with a single list of comprehensive req'ts
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lockywolf [snarfed]: 🤷, well, yeah, but (1) this is why we have lisp and dynamic languages, which can be customized by the user, (2) aiming at a certain group with consistent requirements is still possible
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lockywolf [snarfed]: do you remember any keywords from that post-mortem I can listen to?
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lockywolf *I can find on Google
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[snarfed] sadly no
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[snarfed] and wow yeah "write your own code to change the app" is definitely one approach, but it only works for a veeeery limited audience 😆
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aaronpk Yeah wow the language some software is written in has basically nothing to do with the usability of it in practice
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[0x3b0b] You know, I can remember thinking about what I'd like in a feed reader on a few occasions, and never getting anywhere with it. I think what it boils down to is that the itches I have with using the RSS/Atom support built into my email client (currently Vivaldi), and (these days) the inbox of my Microblogpub instance, are insufficient to motivate meaningful effort put toward any of the improvements I might like.
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lockywolf aaronpk: I am an Emacs user :)
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lockywolf I have _a lot_ of hooks in my ~/.emacs.d/
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lockywolf it is true that you can patch almost all open source software to run your functions whenever needed