Comments on: Replacing the RSS Reader: It’s All About the Conversation

By: Justin Blake

Justin Blake — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:20:25 +0000

Yeah, spam is a major issue at the moment. The code is still very young and being heavily worked on. Once we get things smoothed out for parsing blogs and such, we’re definitely interested in adding other “conversation” areas such as mailing lists, twitter feeds, etc. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:04:45 +0000

Nick,

Our filters are improving as we pull more from the feeds. Your point on pulling in forums is well taken. In a version to come we will have the capability for people to suggest feeds that are relevant to the context (in the case of whatsupinruby ruby and associated topics), that will be vetted (for spam) and added to our feed pull.

Thanks for the feedback. Please keep it coming.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:57:47 +0000

I love how comment spam is getting into the meta tags of your “whats up in ruby” site.

If you want to track conversations, it seems that it might be more useful to write a site than organizes traffic on ruby and rails mailing lists, since those places have even more content than blogs do and don’t get effectively RSS’ed nearly as well as blogs do either.

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:18:15 +0000

Navjeet – hitting the “Enter” key after entering a search term works for me. What browser are you using?

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:07 +0000

Navjeet,

Thanks for the heads up. We’ll fix those two items right away.

By: Navjeet

Navjeet — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:04:30 +0000

Also entering the search term and hitting “Enter” key does not bring back search results. One has to explicitly click on “search” button.

By: Navjeet

Navjeet — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:02:04 +0000

BTW pagination is not working properly. I searched for term “video”. It showed me page 1/2 but when i click on page 2 link or next it still shows the same results.