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Comment by phlux | Hacker News Reader

Had a thought:

I am a bit on forum overload right now and just clicked through to see some comments on HubSki and saw the format was very Reddit-esque - which is great.

However then I realized... hmmm I dont have enough hours in the day to read all the HN Reddit, and potentially HubSki posts and threads I would like to.

But - it might be interesting to have a meta feed of stories and threads from all three plus others.

Except not having categories/subHubs is a severe limitation IMO... as with HN, Quora and others - its all one big bucket. Can refine your interest...

/r/ handles this very very well.

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I agree that a feed of these might be useful. One of the functions on my shortlist is an RSS feed of your hubfeed. That way you can get filtered content from Hubski, not so much of a fire-hose.

One reason why I took the approach of following topics and users, rather than subhubs, is that some of the most interesting submissions might only qualify for a hub with very few readers, which is a problem I've encountered with /r/. Here, you can construct a feed in a way similar to the reddit custom frontpage, but you can choose to follow people as well as topics themselves. Thanks again for the thoughts.

-It's too bad this fell off the new page so fast. Maybe I'll try again in a few weeks after some more work. Maybe at a slower time of day too.

One site I used to look at daily was http://linuxhomepage.com/

I would like something like this... but with the ability to drill down into comments rather than jumping to the actual site.

BTW - what did you learn to build this? Was it done with Rails? Or did you state this and I missed it?

Hm. That gives me an idea. Maybe I could build an alternate 'followed tags' page that have a view broken up like that. Each box would be the content from a different tag. -Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm using Arc, which HN is written in. It is a dialect of Lisp. I love the language actually, but there isn't too much support. I'm just learning. I think I might try another language for my next project.

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