[omaha] FeedJack

Thu Mar 14 19:29:35 CET 2013

And now I looked at feedjack_update.py. Holy crap

https://github.com/squarepegsys/feedjack/blob/master/feedjack/bin/feedjack_update.py

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mike Hostetler
<mike at squarepegsystems.com>wrote:

> man that is a lot of commentary for a quick email before running lunch
> errands.
>
> On the non-techie side:
>
> Free apps going away is, unfortunately, typical in our web-app world. I
> think this post from the guy that runs Pinboard really explains it well:
> http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
>
> So the morale to the story is either pay for it or build it yourself.
>
> I'll save my other rants for Google+. Lots of angry people there.
>
> On the techie-side:
>
> I'll freely admit that I just got FeedJack up to the point that I could
> see the webapp working. The images don't display, etc but the Admin goes.
> The code is crufty, but that's mostly because it used some things that are
> no longer in Django. I've seen worse. Heck, I've written worse.
>
> I also found this, which was spun off of FeedJack:
> https://github.com/matagus/django-planet
>
> One thing that is wrong in all of these is feed ownership -- if you want
> more than one user on the system, these need some work. My wife doesn't
> want to see my Python blogs and I probably don't want to see her food
> blogs. But if she is making a recipe and wants me to get things for it,
> then it makes sense to share it with me and add a comment. This is really a
> killer feature that Google Reader *used* to have, but, as Jeff said, they
> shut that off a while ago to force G+  on people.
>
> On the search front: I've used Haystack with Whoosh and was underwhelmed.
> It took 4 hours to update the indices on 250k items and took sometimes a
> minute to do a search. I have used ElasticSearch in the past and it's nice,
> but I don't like having to monitor yet another system to get something to
> work.
>
> I've used PostgreSQL's Text Search functionality to replace the Haystack
> and it's amazing. Took some work getting it going, but now I don't have to
> do anything -- no extra process! Heck, try it yourself:
> http://powerhousetoolparts.com/newsearch/?q=type
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Shawn Hermans <shawnhermans at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think a Django based app could be a good solution.  I used feedparser a
>> lot in my previous job and found it was a really powerful tool.  It would
>> be easy to create some Django tasks using something like Django Celery
>> that
>> go out and poll the feeds and scrap them on a regular basis.    With
>> regard
>> to search, Django Haystack is great for enabling search and indexing of
>> text.  It can tie into stuff like Solr and Elasticsearch or you can have a
>> standalone index based on Whoosh.
>>
>> Very cool thoughts.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Mike and Matthew -- Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this.
>> Annoyed
>> > that goog is dropping my favorite tool outside of search, I've been
>> > grimacing.
>> >
>> > I think you both have the right idea about getting out from under the
>> > services yolk of some 3rd party (in this case goog) [They ripped out the
>> > social features from Reader when G+ came on line, and now the are
>> saying --
>> > oooooh users have fallen off.  B*st*rds] {can you sense me not getting
>> I/O
>> > tickets yesterday too?}
>> >
>> > attributes in a good reader --
>> >
>> > * keeps feed updated when you are away.  RSS only shows X previous
>> stories,
>> > so if you are off line you'll have a gap unless the backend fetches on a
>> > regular basis for you.
>> > * ability to "star" an an entry -  for easier recall
>> > * search
>> > * share
>> > * desktop and phone  UI
>> > * multi-device access with read tracking.
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > I've used Feedjack on a few projects. It's a mess. (
>> > > http://voices.canonical.com/ is an amalgamation of Feedjack and
>> > Wordpress
>> > > MU) I've been looking for other alternatives for the last year and
>> played
>> > > with a few features in Wordpress, which alas is not Python. After the
>> > news
>> > > yesterday I stayed up too late last night working on it and
>> documenting
>> > it
>> > > and now have it set up in about a 15 min process for basic
>> functionality.
>> > > You can check out my notes at
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> http://www.bearfruit.org/2013/03/14/dont-panic-build-your-own-google-reader-in-12-minutes-with-wordpress/and
>> > > I would love suggestions on how to improve this.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Mike Hostetler
>> > > <mike at squarepegsystems.com>wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On the demise of Google Reader, I decided to see if there was a
>> > > > Python-based Feed Reader that I could bring up. And I did find
>> > something
>> > > --
>> > > > FeedJack. It hasn't been updated since 2008. :(
>> > > >
>> > > > I got it at least working (there has been a few deprecated Django
>> > > features
>> > > > it was using) and now it at least runs.  I put my work on github if
>> > > someone
>> > > > else wants to help me finish this off.
>> > > >
>> > > > https://github.com/squarepegsys/feedjack
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --
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