I am glad to be working on user interface for reading lists, and out of the feedlanddatabase boiler room.
Fixing bugs, smoothing things out in the API, and making the Info page for reading lists work, providing ways to see:
1. A timeline of all news from feeds in the reading list.
2. See the feed list for the reading list in the standard FeedLand feed list viewer.
3. See who else is subscribed to the reading list, and be able to see their collection of reading lists.
In other words, it’s analogous to the browsing facilities we have for feeds. It’s another whole FeedLand. Not surprising it’s taken most of October to deliver. But trust me, it’s worth it. It’s what makes this mofo a platform, for real. It’s a real advancement in the art of feed management, imho.
Also, on Friday we added depth to the Cats menu, where we can now see either the feed list for the category, or see the timeline for the category.
All of this was made easier because FeedLand already had the connections for all of these data types in the feed list viewer and the river viewer. In this way it’s a fairly mature piece of software.
Current status
I have all this running on my local server, and when I top it off I will install it on feedland.org.
When ready we will install the new server software on a8c.feedland.org, the server running on VIP.
At this point I’ve got all the deliverables from the status outline working. 🙂
Screen shot
The Newspack reading list as viewed as a feed list.
