I love Newsblur, but sometimes it makes me want to kill myself (not literally – don’t worry). I just added about 3,000 feeds and have been trying to train them but some actions – like moving a feed into another folder or deleting a feed, are really hard on my poor computer. Other actions are needlessly repetitive – like selecting the same keywords over and over again and moving feeds one at a time.
So while I’ve been torturing myself, trying to get those 3,000 feeds trained, I have been thinking about what features I would like to see. These are my suggestions.
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Make it possible to mute entire folders with a single click. (That way I could work on training one folder while ignoring everything else and my computer wouldn’t get slowed down as much.)
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Make it possible to move the entire contents of one folder into another folder (without moving the folder itself).
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Make it possible to select multiple individual feeds and move them to a different folder.
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Have a basic mode that lets you turn off all graphics and whatever else slows down Newsblur (sometimes it is PAINFULLY slow). It should be a single on/off switch for all feeds so it’s easy to switch back and forth depending on my connection speed at the moment or whatever.
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Have a way to train everything in a folder at once. ***** If you can only do one of these changes, please pick this one. *********Just let me type in a keyword and make it green or red for an entire folder and I will be the happiest person alive. It will save me days of work.