[HN Gopher] Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
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Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
Author : microflash
Score : 178 points
Date : 2024-03-23 13:23 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (feedle.world)
(TXT) w3m dump (feedle.world)
| fabianholzer wrote:
| Cool idea, I like that you can follow the queries as feed.
|
| The crux will be maintaining a well-curated/reviewed list of
| feeds.
|
| Also: the submit form seems to be broken - leads to the landing
| page of some form builder saas.
| bsmth wrote:
| That's quite cool. How are feeds added? Is it all manual curation
| and submissions?
| microflash wrote:
| There's a link in the header to submit your own feed. Sadly
| that link didn't work for me.
| popey wrote:
| Seems fixed now, I just submitted a podcast feed.
| p5v wrote:
| It's a known issue for a portion of our visitors, which we
| are working on. For the time being, you can use the direct
| link to the form: https://tally.so/r/mJ11E7
| yakkomajuri wrote:
| This is in some ways similar to something I built recently:
|
| https://app.recessfeed.com/
|
| We seem to have similar ideas, so would love to have a chat! This
| line aligns a lot with what I have in mind:
|
| "Discover content creators you may not know about"
| hexage1814 wrote:
| It's a cool idea but I really don't like the front-end being used
| in the site. For instance, if you try to select the footer
| element, to block it, instead of the site showing you "#footer"
| (or something legible), it shows you something like
| ".lg\:px-8.sm\:px-6.px-4.max-w-7xl.mx-auto > .py-16". As well as
| it adding a "?ref=feedle.world" in all links you click by
| default. Also it would be nice an option that automatically loads
| more when you scroll down.
|
| Oh, and that "Welcome to feedle!" popup seems like dark pattern
| to me.
| SamWhited wrote:
| I would have said the same thing about infinite scrolling; that
| always feels like a dark pattern to me because it makes it hard
| to find specific results again, hard (or impossible) to get to
| any links in the page footer, etc.
|
| I always just want a single page that I can link back to later
| :)
| hexage1814 wrote:
| To me, I think it depends on what is the goal when you are
| searching something and what is that data in particular.
| Infinite scroll and pagination offer different user
| experience proposes, and make different assumptions about the
| user.
|
| To give a blatant example where I don't see a pagination
| system making that much sense, pagination on a personalized
| news feed of some social media. That information is changing
| constantly. It's a never-ending information stream.
|
| Even in the case here, if you are searching for a blog or
| podcast, you could just link that blog article rather than
| the page search where you found that article. Especially in a
| situation where you don't have any interaction with that
| content aside clicking on it. Especially when the search
| engine doesn't seem to have millions of results, which seems
| to be the case here, it seems to be a relatively small list
| of blogs submitted to this site.
|
| Infinite scroll on the other hand have some problems
| especially in situations where you are expect to interact
| with that content one way or the other (such as a commentary
| section). In fact, when dealing with really large amounts of
| data, it essentially buries that data. Think about a
| commentary section with 60.000 commentaries. Essentially 98%
| of them are hidden way because the browser will crash before
| loading them. So if you decide to go down infinite scroll
| route, I think the very least you could do would be offer
| another way to search for stuff, such as search option inside
| the commentary section (although nobody does that). But I
| think a pagination system would be better in that situation.
|
| Anyway, just some food for thoughts.
| quest88 wrote:
| IMO pagination makes sense with feeds when a feed can be
| sorted in some ordering. I'd rather jump to page 6 instead
| of scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get back.
| ktosobcy wrote:
| Actually because of the infinite scroll and basically
| mental way that social media works I gave it up...
|
| No, it's not constantly changing. There was a publication
| at rhw certain time and it can be shown at that time
| (ideally you can have inbox with unread entries). Right no
| it's impossible to follow anything in any sane manner...
|
| to that end I use only RSS and from social perspective I
| added a couple of reddit sub feeds there and that's all...
| Starlevel004 wrote:
| This is the end result of the tailwindification of the
| internet.
| l5870uoo9y wrote:
| Its TailwindCSS. Classes are CSS, can't really match those.
| mm263 wrote:
| What's the use case, in your opinion, for an average user to
| inspect the footer? Or any element on that website for that
| purpose?
| persnickety wrote:
| Average users can't or don't need to be helped. Let's think
| more about those who have special needs.
| mm263 wrote:
| Is the assumption here that Tailwind classes are somehow
| not A11Y compliant? That's false, you can both use Tailwind
| and make website fully accessible, reader-compatible.
| persnickety wrote:
| When you try to alter the style of a calendar, in order
| to be able to read the text more clearly, if making the
| style of the date readable turns the title into garbage
| (because there's no semantic information, only they
| happen to share the same visual class), then someone is
| going to have a hard time using your website because of
| your decisions not taking into account their needs.
|
| (This is a slightly tweaked real life example; it was
| adjusting the style for printing so that the calendar was
| accessible offline.)
| robrenaud wrote:
| What kind of queries do you handle well? Do you index podcast
| transcripts?
| msmarvel wrote:
| Cool idea, does a blog need to be submitted? There's a movie blog
| I didn't see in the search
| BadHumans wrote:
| There's a submit button in the header. Top right on desktop.
| culopatin wrote:
| The icon color and name made me think this was Feedly not Feedle,
| took a moment to understand they were unrelated
| culopatin wrote:
| Could be nice to have an "I'm feeling lucky"
| miniman1337 wrote:
| stumbleupon 2.0
| culopatin wrote:
| Same as high waisted wide jeans, everything is coming back
| p5v wrote:
| It's very high on our list. Optimistically, we are going to
| release that feature by the end of next week.
| Redster wrote:
| Thanks so much for building this. Very cool. In addition, making
| clear that the feeds are embeddable in Obsidian is just great.
| Will see how well this searches and will start using today!
| Redster wrote:
| What are you using to index the blogs and podcasts?
| Redster wrote:
| And do you permit people to submit blogs and podcasts that they
| don't own? That's unclear at the moment.
| mdaniel wrote:
| damn shame there doesn't seem to be a search facet for saying
| "only podcasts" since I don't need another search engine for
| webpages
| iLoveOncall wrote:
| The link to submit a new blog or podcast doesn't work, it
| redirects to the homepage of a form builder service.
| p5v wrote:
| It's a known issue for a portion of our visitors, which we are
| working on. For the time being, you can use the direct link to
| the form: https://tally.so/r/mJ11E7
| horsh1 wrote:
| As with the majority of the recent search startups: no hiragana,
| no hebrew, no cyrillic.
| p5v wrote:
| Co-creator here: we have multi-language support on the backend
| site, but it is still in a bit of an experimental stage at the
| moment. Not all posts are being attributed the right language,
| so we are still experimenting there. For the time being, EN-
| language blogs are our first priority. That said, we will beta-
| launch the multi-language support very soon.
| rubymamis wrote:
| Found some interesting blog posts using this, thanks!
| Vox_Leone wrote:
| The world needs blogs, repositories of long-form original
| thinking on the Internet. As a blogger I appreciate the
| opportunity to place my link. I salute your initiative and wish
| you success!
| samstave wrote:
| True,
|
| And it will be great when a service such as this has a auto-
| crawler, categorizer LLM that takes all the content in the repo
| and groups them together based on content context tagging - so
| a diasproa of blog posts from anyone/where about [TOPIC] could
| be groupded, and even compared...
|
| "Show me all the blog posts on [TOPIC] but show me the top
| opposing opinions on said [TOPIC]"
|
| Or "show me all the folks who have consensus on [SUBJECT]"
|
| etc.
| Redster wrote:
| That sounds very useful. I wonder if that might be more in
| the wheel house of a search engine like the folks at Kagi?
| I'm trying to think of what is the closest thing to this that
| exists.
| codazoda wrote:
| The "Submit" link just takes me to the Tally home page. I
| wonder if the link is broken of if they exceeded a limit.
| codazoda wrote:
| This is a known bug. There are form links elsewhere in these
| comments.
| monksy wrote:
| I agree with you.. but there is a lot of issues related to
| blogging that has caused it's decline in popularity. (I.e.
| content aggrigation, cross connection social comment features,
| reduction of spam in discovering/blog reputation, etc)
|
| For me I have a blog but I'm struggling to write for it because
| I don't have an audience that makes the blog valuable for me.
| yakkomajuri wrote:
| Would love to hear if you think there's a solution to this.
|
| I have some ideas, which I wrote about here:
| https://github.com/yakkomajuri/recess/blob/main/manifesto-
| is...
|
| Curious if you think this makes sense.
| littlestymaar wrote:
| Since the creators are here: how are you going to defend against
| SEO spam? Curation when adding the blog to the index wont work as
| anyone could make a reasonable-looking blog with AI generated
| articles in just a few hours and after you've added it to the
| index push a ton of aggressive spam.
| drewolbrich wrote:
| I'd like to submit my blog, but I can't.
|
| The "Submit your blog or podcast" button at the top of the page
| takes me to an advertisement for an unrelated website.
| jimkleiber wrote:
| I found the answer in a different reply:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801350
| john-tells-all wrote:
| I adore the idea of a podcast/blog search engine! And results can
| be streamed via RSS, wonderful! I use Feedly to subscribe to
| important RSS feeds, including specific Hacker News authors.
|
| Current database is a bit light: it didn't have "Science Vs", a
| popular podcast. Added.
|
| For comparison, https://www.podchaser.com/ only has podcasts but
| it's more fleshed out.
| messiah_complex wrote:
| To the creators: I've already read three very interesting blog
| posts that I never would have read otherwise. Well done.
| azhenley wrote:
| Minor feedback: After doing a search with 0 results, there is a
| "load more" button that doesn't do anything.
| treetalker wrote:
| Awesome project, thanks for putting it together and sharing it
| with us!
|
| A suggestion: allow users to flag dead links for removal.
|
| I searched for "task management". One or more results led to
| pages that are 404/no longer exist. I'd like to help you remove
| those results. My suggestion seems appropriate because users add
| Feedle's links in the first place.
| gtirloni wrote:
| A search for "Kubernetes" shows a ton of corporate "blogs".
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