Enhancements - RSS feeds UI/UX

[ehanuise]

Hi. I just added 50 RSS feeds to Cypht, which quickly pushed the interface to its user-friendliness limits :-)

Here is a list of improvements and features that would be nice to have in future versions of Cypth :

• in 'MAIN' section, under 'Everything', add 'Mail - all' (lists all emails and only emails) and 'Feeds - all' (lists all feeds and only feeds). It's nice to have a combined view, but it's also nice to have just emails and just feeds, without having to dig into the email or feeds subsections (which are closed by default, so more clicks) (Even better allow pinning email accounts/folders and feeds or feeds groups in that Main menu) As it is, with so many feeds, the 'Everything' folder is saturated and mail is lost in the feeds.

• allow renaming and editing of subscribed feeds. Now only 'test' and 'delete' are allowed, 'edit' would be a great plus.

• Allow grouping of feeds. I have feeds for local and national news, foreign news, boardgaming, 3d printing, tech news, and a few other subjects. Currently all 50 feeds are by alphabetical name order, so it's all mixed up contents-wise.

• Allow reordering of feeds (arbitrary order). This goes hand in hand with grouping above. This allows to prioritize reading - I got 5 minutes I skim the top ones, I got 30 minutes I read everything.

• In search, allow filtering by sources : emails/specific mail account/feeds/specific feed

[iredmail]

I suggest we don't maintain the RSS feed module:

• cypht is a webmail, let's just focus on webmail features and its plugin architecture / API. Let others develop / maintain / share the modules/plugins which are not directly relevant.

• We have Feedly and other RSS readers available for free, they are good at their own domain, let them do what they're good at and we just focus on webmail.

[dumblob]

@iredmail well, I believe you wanted to propose separating the RSS module from this main repository to a separate repository. Is that correct? If not, I believe your proposal makes a lot of assumptions which might simply not be true...

[jasonmunro]

@iredmail as always I appreciate the feedback. Technically Cypht is a data aggregation app. It is built to aggregate data from sources like E-mail, and presents the results in an E-mail like way, but can be used for any tabular data source that fits that paradigm (which feeds kind of do).

However I get your point. The primary purpose of Cypht is webmail so why waste time on feeds? A couple reasons:

1. As pretty much the sole developer, I like to mix it up sometimes. E-mail protocols can be frustrating to work with and sometimes I want to work on something else :)

2. I have no doubt dedicated feed readers and feed reading services do a better job, but I like having my small set of feeds available inside of Cypht.

3. Feeds pretty much works, so no reason to deprecate it. I may not get around to these enhancements for a long time, hard to say considering the backlog of suggestions.

4. RSS is pretty simple overall, much more so than something like IMAP. If someone was interested in contributing to the project but was not confidant enough to tackle something IMAP related, this might be a good set of features for them to learn about how Cypht works.

[kk6mrp]

I think what would be ideal (for myself at least) is the ability to show feeds in the Everything view that are more recent than a time period you select. If they grow older than a week, let's say, then they would fall off the Everything view. This would be ideally be configured per feed.