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Posted by Richard Ziade on July 21, 2009, 09:21AMWhat I Need…
Know what I need? I need some way to cherry pick the 20 or so Boing Boing posts actually worth reading out of my 634 unread.
I wish I could just click a button and remove the pressure. I like Boing Boing, but I don’t like Boing Boing enough to wade through 634 posts. Then again, it would have never reached that number had I liked them more.
Hmmm, maybe I don’t like Boing Boing after all. Unsubscribe?
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Aww man that's like 2500 unread just on that screen grab... I get annoyed and have to have a mass cull when my Reader is at like 200! Seriously, why even have the subscription - you've practically mirrored the whole site Google Reader!
Posted by: Ben at July 21, 2009 11:59 AMI'm curious. From a user point of view how would you like to browse your rss news when they reach a huge number like above?
@Julien - I'm not really sure. I know that sites like Daily News & Boing Boing are quality, but I just can't keep with 20+ posts per day.
It just also pains me to abandon them...I think I want the best stuff out of that mix. Can I skip to the highlights somehow? that would be cool.
You know what may also work - cap the unread bank. Make it only go up to 50. As soon as it trips 51, drop off the oldest post...
Posted by: Richard Ziade at July 21, 2009 2:12 PMMake it only go up to 50. As soon as it trips 51, drop off the oldest post...
Oh! You might find http://www.planetaki.com/ interesting.
They only keep your unread stuff for seven days. Some friends are using it along with (not instead of) Reader to keep up with some blogs, and they swear by it.
Posted by: Ale Muñoz at July 21, 2009 3:36 PMYou could always try following them on Twitter instead: http://twitter.com/BoingBoing which is just as overwhelming, but then Twitter is overwhelming, so it kind of blends in!
Posted by: Paul Neave at July 21, 2009 5:32 PM@Paul - Gee thanks!
I swear I feel like I'm failing ALL THE TIME on the Web. Heh.
Posted by: Richard Ziade at July 21, 2009 7:34 PMUnsubscribe. I did long ago and never looked back -- when the signal to noise ration is that bad, it's just not worth it. The really unmissable stuff will reach you by other channels.
Alternatively, feedafeever looks like it might be promising, I just can't manage energy to migrate from google reader.
Or just read the ones from the last few days and mark the rest as read, no hardwired cap necessary.
Posted by: colin at July 23, 2009 6:05 PMI think the solution you are looking for is Fever: http://feedafever.com/
Posted by: Joe Mako at July 23, 2009 7:43 PMmaybe you need someone to develop boing boing boing, the filtered boing boing with all the crap removed?
Posted by: tom at August 10, 2009 7:48 PMPost a comment
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Maybe http://feedafever.com/ is for you?
Maybe Google is already working on it (you may have noticed the new 'Like' button on every item)
Anyways, I *totally* feel your pain : )
Posted by: Ale Muñoz at July 21, 2009 11:52 AM