I tried importing the attached opml to a demo jug as the anonymous user a
couple times. The first time, after a couple minutes of the bouncing waiting
jug I tried refreshing, and the feeds that had showed up in the sidebar were
gone. I switched to another browser (to get a new session) and tried again
with the same opml, and this time left the bouncing waiting jug going for
half an hour. When I came back it was still going, but when I hit refresh it
actually retained the feeds in the sidebar as I expected it to the first
time, and by this time it had some articles to show me.
While we should ultimately show incomplete results progressively while
melkjug process the feeds in the OPML, in the meantime would it be worth
tossing up a special message in the background of the reader if the user
tries an OPML import along the lines of "importing feeds, sit tight or try
refreshing the page in a few"?
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Luke Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I agree it does need more than a little work. I believe it will go off and
> try to make sure it has all those feeds fetched immediately which is
> tantamount to a freeze for even a moderately long list of things it hasn't
> seen before. We should be doing them progressively and showing incomplete
> results along the way / some status for the ones that are not yet complete.
> I am also in strong agreement that the sidebar is unworkably cluttered with
> more than a few feeds. If you have the inclination, it would be helpful
> to know if it shows any results if you return to http://melkjug.org/tryita
> bit later.
>
> Thanks for your input, I hope we can deliver something that is more in line
> with your expectations soon :) If you are interested in following our
> progress, please check out the project website at
> http://melkjug.openplans.org
>
> Thanks again,
>
> - Luke
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> == Melkjug Feedback from Anonymous[Paul Batum] ([email protected]) ==
>>
>> Its not obvious what I'm supposed to do once I've imported my OPML. The
>> main section still tells me to add news sources, and I just end up with a
>> MASSIVE list of subscriptions on the sidebar that I can't seem to do
>> anything with.
>>
>> Maybe I have to signup for it to work? Who knows. All I know is I'm not
>> signing up for something that doesn't seem to work right. You need to
>> rethink how the import OPML experience should work.
>
>
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