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kickscondor
Better description for "importance" setting
Before you start.
- [x] I have checked the Rejected Features page.
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My great idea for Fraidycat is: Current descriptions for "Occasional", "Sometime" and "Rarely" don't tell what the difference is. I guess that the difference is in the update period, but without numbers I have no way to decide whether I want to put my feeds into "Rarely" or "Occasional". And if I put all my feeds into 5 different importance categories, am I supposed to click through all the tabs periodically?
The idea is to make descriptions more clear, and maybe reduce the number of categories to 2 or 3 if there is no real difference between them.
I have found related issue #42 with an answer
And, no, there's no timer helping you check weekly - it's up to you to regulate yourself and decide what these 'importances' mean to you.
but why not use tags then?
Screenshot also shows that importances were "daily", "weekly" etc. at some point. Not sure if new importances correspond to those directly or not.
Importance is organizational and just hints three things:
- Which feeds are fetched first.
- Which feeds are hidden from view.
- The tab for each tag will be colored according to the status of 'Real-time' follows.
Importance is not a fixed number. It acts as a gradient: https://twitter.com/glitchyowl/status/1285757728049094656
The reason I moved away from 'daily', 'weekly', etc - is because every follow is now likely updated at least once a day. This keeps information current for when you actually decide to view the follows under that 'importance'.
Real-time is definitely treated different from the others. In the future I hope to leverage this more.
Thank you @kickscondor for this extension, it has sparked a new interest in RSS in me and has completely eliminated the FOMO I have with traditional readers ! I'm slowly evolving my use of the web to go towards Slow Web, such that I don't need to check every 5 minutes if something happened. Fraidycat is very good for that.
It's only since I've seen your comment that I understand the idea behind segregating the different feeds. Typically there's a feed that is uptaded daily but I don't want to read it everyday, only when I'm bored; that's why I put it in the "Sometime" category. I believe this new system should be visible from the README.
