so - my 10 cents… I’ve built a number of the news apps using RSS feeds. A number of the apps I WANTED to build - easily exceed the timeout for apps on the Tidbyt servers - so it’s a tricky thing. I’ve bypassed the issue with a combination of Github & CI/CD scripts to pre-pull the data and then have the app get it from gihub (see my Mayo Clinic News app - it doesn’t pull from their feed directly). If you allow just any URL - you might get a blank screen and you’ve got no insight into why without doing debugging yourself & pulling the code. I’m certainly happy to look at some of these URLs. I can take my normal News app, modify it for a list of URLs (the above is a starting point) and then take requests to add more & review as necessary / reject those that don’t / can’t make the cut. What should we call the app? “Misc RSS Feeds?”
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Thanks for chiming in. I definitely don’t have the same insights as you. I understand some of what you’re saying and also noticed that not all feeds are the same (e.g. polygon/verge is pretty clean while slickdeals has plenty of “
Oops. Fine as is then. I wasn’t aware of the vertical limitation. Thanks!
I’m going to push an update to allow up to 5 - you can decide on each feed if it’s worth it or not (e.g. you are consistently getting more than 3) - I’m sure there are some instances where the titles are short and it may be worthwhile. But some (I’m gonna pick on slickdeals for a sec) - I think their folks get paid by the posted word for titles…
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