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I've just shipped a quality of life improvement for adding a new feed in Feedgrab.
Previously, subscribing to a new feed meant knowing the exact URL – either the feed URL itself or the website URL. You'd paste it in, hit Subscribe, and Feedgrab would do the rest. That worked fine if you had the URL to hand, but it wasn't great for discovery.
Now, the "add feed" input doubles as a search box. Start typing a name – "pagecord", "github", "photography" – and Feedgrab will search across all the feeds in its database, matching against titles, descriptions, and URLs. Results appear in a dropdown as you type.
If you already subscribe to a feed, it'll say so. If you don't, click the result to fill in the URL, then hit Subscribe.
If you have an exact URL the input works exactly as before. Paste a URL and the search step is skipped entirely.
The dropdown supports keyboard navigation. Arrow keys to move through results, Enter to select, Escape to clear and start over.
This feature searches the existing Feedgrab database – the one you can explore in the Discover section – which is build up from select feeds that other Feedgrab users subscribe to. The more people use Feedgrab, the better the search gets!
There's no external search API (💸💸💸), just the Feedgrab community's collective taste in feeds :)
To try it out, head to the add feed page and start typing. Hopefully you'll find it a useful way to discover what's already out there.
Feedgrab now supports keyboard shortcuts for a bunch of common actions.
You can press ? at any time to see a list of what's available (and press Esc to close the overlay). Here's the current list so far.
Key |
Action |
|---|---|
<- or h |
Previous article |
-> or l |
Next article |
s |
Toggle starred status |
m |
Toggle read/unread |
q |
Return to the index view |
Key |
Action |
|---|---|
u |
Show unread articles |
r |
Show read articles |
s |
Show starred articles |
Hopefully this is a handy productivity improvement for those of you reading on a device with a keyboard.
I don't know about you, but when I'm scrolling Feedgrab on my iPhone there are often articles that I know I want to skip before I've even read the article. To mark these articles as read, I have to click on the article to view it, then go back to my list. This is not a massive PITA, but it's definitely a small one. So I've made a change to improve matters.
Now when you're viewing Feedgrab on your phone or tablet, you can quickly swipe left on an article in your feed list to mark it as read (or mark as unread if you're viewing your list of read articles).
Here's what it looks like in action.
You can also use this swiping technique to move to the next/previous articles when viewing an article. This isn't quite as slick as it could be visually, but it's functional and hopefully feels a bit more intuitive.
This feature is freshly baked in Feedgrab's AI developer warehouse, so there may be a few 🐛🦟 in there. If you spot anything weird, drop me an email and I'll try and get it fixed it.
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