343 karma · joined June 22, 2012
EDIT:
After filling out the form, I think some things can be combined/simplified to make it easier to parse: - Many twitter users I follow tend to be the authors of the blogs I read as well. Maybe just connect with Twitter and get a listing of all the people I follow? - Also what format should the songs be listed in? or maybe just keep that limited to artists & bands. - Utilize Facebook Graph to pre-populate interests, music, movies.
It probably feels a bit slow at some points because it's actually checking each link and trying to pull out a thumbnail via the site's API like imgur, youtube, wikipedia, etc and at other times when there is no API, it's scraping HTML for a suitable thumbnail (which is the most time consuming). But this only happens once and then cached by redis. Also I'm making use of websockets so as soon as one item is parsed its pushed out to the client.
Having said that, there is plenty of room for improvement. I still plan to add some more features when I get more time such as loggin in, up/down voting, and the ability to browse other subreddits as you mentioned.