Comment by pudquick | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pudquick | Hacker News Reader

For Google Reader refugees coming here hoping for their salvation, some advance warning: Prismatic is not a straightforward RSS reader.

It's more similar in concept to Pandora - you tell it what content you're interested in, it tries to generate a content feed you might find similarly interesting.

This does not mean it's a poor source for information, quite the contrary - it's a very useful information discovery tool.

However, it will not show you every post (unread or otherwise) from RSS feeds of your choosing. It's just not that kind of tool.

Here's an (older) article on NYTimes regarding it:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/prismatic-hopes-to-...

This new entry page on their site seems to be an extension of their Google Reader integration they added last June, automating the import of your current RSS feeds as 'seed' interests to generate your Prismatic feed:

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/6/1/prismatic-integra...

u can subscribe directly to all your rss feeds and we're investing heavily in being a better rss replacement in the next big release!

From what I read from you elsewhere in these comments, though, subscribing to an RSS feed in Prismatic does not (currently) mean you will see 100% of the content in them - correct?

... If you are indeed changing it to include 100% of the feeds of my choosing, that's great to hear.

What I ALWAYS want + 'a little extra I might like' is something I can appreciate.

Right on all counts. On the upside, we're smarter than an RSS reader for high-volume feeds currently, and sort things based on how much we think you'll like them (based on topics, social information, and more) rather than just by time. Support for the 100%-of-feed use case is in the works, stay tuned.

Hopefully that feature can be disabled ?!

If it can I could never find it. I tried the service out twice and both times found it to try and show me a lot of stuff I didn't want to see and never improved on that front.

If by 'that feature' you mean the sort by perceived importance vs. time, I hope they make that possible to configure.

If you instead mean the suggestion of additional content into your feed - that's really the core point of Prismatic. I wouldn't expect to see that configurable / given an "off" switch ever. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how they'll monetize the product - slipping in pay-for-placement content that's relevant to what you're reading.

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