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If are an admin user, the UI of FeedLand will have a new command in the System menu, the menu at the right edge of the screen. If you are not an admin user, you won’t see this command. Initially, the command will be Start Supervising. When you choose Start Supervising, a dialog appears asking…

The announcement and howto on the FeedLand support repo. A short post about why centralized identity is so important.

In the next release of the FeedLand server software, you will be able to log in using a WordPress account. A few facts about this new feature. It’s not installed yet on either server. I want it to (eventually) be the only way to log in to the A8C server. On feedland.org it will be an…

The new UI for reading lists is topped off and the fixes are installed on the server, so now here are some links that show you around the new stuff. Here’s the info page for my first test list, which I just subscribed to on the A8C server. If you click on my name in…

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…

This started out being a private update for Matt, but I decided it should be part of the record for the project, keeping in the spirit of how these things go, on the web and at A8C. The development project Adapting FeedLand to run on the VIP service, which is capable of serving millions of…

In programming and other things sometimes you get so involved in an elegant way of doing something and it isn’t working out that well, so you just take a gun out and shoot the problem like Indiana Jones did. That’s what I ended up doing with the hangup with reading lists I wrote up yesterday.…

Add another week to implementation of reading lists, not at all surprising. 😉 Here’s what’s going on for the developers among us and also those who want to peer into the Fog of Development. From my worknotes outline, pardon punctuation and capitalization. i had written code that subscribes all users to new feeds and unsubs…

A reading list is a list of feeds you can subscribe to. The author of the list can add or remove feeds. When they do, people who subscribe to the list get the update, and are subscribed to the new feeds and unsubbed from the ones that leave. It means that there can be lots…

I just added a new section to my Automattic project outline — Ideas, and added an idea (of course). It would be so cool if PocketCast supported reading lists, so I could manage my podcast subscriptions from my desktop. What got me going is a recommendation by my favorite podcaster Andrew Hickey of a podcast…