News Aggregators rework

[jerm]

I decided to make this post to track all improvements that I could find related to News Aggregators page.

Replacing GNOME Feeds which seems to be unmaintained anymore with Newsflash.

Add Newsflash for 'News Aggregators'

So had a bit of a look at it just now, there’s a few things I dislike about this over gfeeds. The first being can’t seem to select any text, which is quite unusual for a program which displays text. The second being that Gfeeds has the ability to block javascript and advertising. On the positive side I think newsflash’s display of folders is better, and and introduction re adding an RSS service and introductory/discovery pages. People could argue though as there is no way to block adverts, o…

Fix syntax formatting for the Examples.

Suggestions for News Aggregation Page

Perhaps the Social Media RSS section in the News Aggregator page could use some clarification. In particular, the section regarding Reddit feeds says this: [image] At least for me, this confused me a little since just replacing the subreddit name causes errors. (Screenshot taken on Fluent Reader) [image] I don’t know if the curly brackets ({}) were used to avoid making the example an actual link, but perhaps it may be better to say that one should also get rid of them also to make the link…

Lastly, not really a problem but something to keep in mind, Feeder closed their issues tracker on Github. And suggests using built-in button “Send a bug report”. Which isn’t great if other users are facing the same issues.

[rollsicecream]

Definitely things we should keep an eye on these