[HN Gopher] Show HN: PaperDelivery - fetch articles from your Tw...
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Show HN: PaperDelivery - fetch articles from your Twitter feed
Author : lonesword
Score : 39 points
Date : 2021-07-31 12:09 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (paperdelivery.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (paperdelivery.co)
| KirillPanov wrote:
| Site appears to be losing the battle with the Hug Of Death...
| ashishb wrote:
| I just manually add the best ones to my custom RSS feed for
| reading - https://reading.ashishb.net
| mikevm wrote:
| What is the logic behind coloring the text in readability view?
| lonesword wrote:
| Well, my goal was to use Twitter without using it. Yes, having
| my cake and eating it too :)
| harish5p wrote:
| News websites are asking if I'm a robot instead of showing the
| headlines.Is it common? https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g
| [deleted]
| lonesword wrote:
| Unfortunately yes. They see too many requests from
| paperdelivery.co and block requests originating from that
| domain - they only want the google bot to crawl their site :) I
| think I have two options:
|
| 1. Respect their decision to not allow PaperDelivery to fetch
| that page.
|
| 2. Use a set of proxies and headless browsers or outright
| impersonate the Google bot to trick the news websites into
| allowing PaperDelivery to fetch that page.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| This is a cool project. Some months ago I also started consuming
| feeds in an async way by creating a daily personal newsletter
| with all my favorite creators and news sources (using
| mailbrew.com). I'm spending a lot less time doom scrolling
| because of this.
| lonesword wrote:
| Creator here. PaperDelivery grew out of my frustration with
| Twitter. I found myself relying on Twitter to follow a particular
| research community, but realized that I do not care about the
| actual tweets/threads - all I wanted was the link to the
| underlying paper/article. I also did not like how often I got
| sucked into reading an opinion thread (often political), and I
| walk away (30 minutes later) thinking "do people really believe
| those things?". All I really want out of Twitter is some sort of
| personalized hacker news, and this is my attempt at creating it.
| KirillPanov wrote:
| I propose that HN "charge" users 10 reputation points for a
| submission that links to twitter, and 1 rep point for linking
| to twitter in a comment.
|
| This is not a punishment. Your comment doesn't get any grayer
| or dead-er. It's an incentive to deep link when possible.
|
| If you can find a better link, we'd appreciate that. If you
| can't, then pay the fee, or quote the tweet. Oftentimes the
| important part of the linked tweet is just some other link;
| please post that directly.
|
| The policy should be rescinded if twitter ever resurrects their
| non-javascript frontend (and pigs fly, etc).
| d4rkp4ttern wrote:
| There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for
| Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the
| stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it, which
| were actually very useful as a TL/DR and also because they
| would highlight some important aspect of these.
|
| And there is also FlipBoard which you can link to your Twitter
| feed.
|
| Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an "offline" way to
| read that doesn't involve endless scrolling?
| lonesword wrote:
| > Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an "offline"
| way to read that doesn't involve endless scrolling?
|
| Not having to see the actual tweets was the goal. The problem
| with connecting my Twitter feed to Flipboard e.t.c is that
| I'd get exposed to every careless tweet/thread/flame war. The
| hypothesis with PaperDelivery is that the external links that
| appear on my twitter feed has less frivolous content since
| it's not limited to 280 characters.
|
| >There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to
| for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the
| stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it,
|
| Ah I didn't know about Nuzzel - sounds useful if it can fetch
| just the links. According to a different comment,
| mailbrew.com too seems to be able to do this.
| earthboundkid wrote:
| Twitter purchased and killed Nuzzel in May. It was great
| before that.
| nafizh wrote:
| Hugged to death? The site is not loading anymore, at least for
| me.
| lonesword wrote:
| Yup, looks like that. The whole thing (flask + rabbitMQ +
| sqlite3) was a on a t2.micro.
| omrjml wrote:
| That really resonated with me. I basically stopped using
| Twitter because of the reasons you outlined here. This tool,
| however, might make Twitter useful again for me!
| cheeaun wrote:
| Would be great if this works for Lists too, instead of the home
| feed.
| lonesword wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback. Yes, support for twitter lists is a
| planned feature.
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| Nice. One minor thing: After you sign up, it tells you to check
| back in a while. Not sure people will remember that for long
| enough for there to be something there when they check back.
| Maybe something like "check back in a while or enable RSS" would
| work. With "enable RSS" being underlined and clickable.
| lonesword wrote:
| Thanks, that's a nice suggestion!
| lonesword wrote:
| I've made this change :)
| douglaswlance wrote:
| It could be better to add a long load indicator that says
| "Delivering your latest articles" or something with a nice
| animation while you fetch the latest few articles, then
| repopulating the viewport with the articles. Once users leave
| the page, they'll forget they ever signed up.
| lonesword wrote:
| Hi, thanks for the feedback! Yeah the front-end is pretty
| bare-bones right now :)
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