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Comment by freetonik

2 days ago

Shameless plug, but hopefully relevant enough: my directory and search engine for personal blogs[1] indexes over 1000 RSS feeds, and naturally lots of them are about engineering and software development. Full-text search is implemented with Typesense, and there are also "related" recommendations for each post, example [2].

1. https://minifeed.net/

2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra

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pnt12  1 day ago

I was surprised that I started reading one blog on your site, and it was badly written. Only afterwards below the text, did I notice it was a summary!

I'd advise to put it at the top, before the text, to let people know beforehand and not be caught off guard. Then you can have a big button saying "read full article in website" or something, to make it easy for people to see both options.

  • pnt12  1 day ago

    OK turns out it was not a summary, just a preview paragraph that mixed headers and text from the original, leading to strange casing and reading. I'd suggest not to include headers there or distinguish them!

    Example (had to search on kagi with site:minifeed.net):

    You Can Either Steal Great Developers or Farm Them To grow software development teams, you can either steal excellent developers or you can develop them internally.

  • pnt12  1 day ago

    Also when going back the page, I don't see that post anymore - it was featured in random blogs, so I lost it.

    It's a cool idea, but maybe a improvement could be to select a random handful per day, and let them stay there for a while? Fewer surprises this way!

    • freetonik  1 day ago

      Good idea, thanks! I was planning to modify the welcome page into that kind of "Minifeed Today" page, and to regenerate it only once a day.

jpmonette  2 days ago

Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?

  • OisinMoran  2 days ago

    I'm building something similar with a bit more of a social angle (has comments, likes, and reposts) at lynkmi.com. If you sign up to the waitlist it's a very very short wait!