The big delete: radical simplification of “discovery”
Here is the first result of your feedback on features to, as we say, “ditch”.
Discovery is a feature that is quite cool but many don’t use or didn’t understand it. So we are radically simplifying it, and keeping the core of the core only.
There will be a single Guide property: “Scan new articles for links to other feeds” (see the Guide menu, Properties… command)
When enabled, BlogBridge will highlight links to other Feeds. A green highlight will mean that it’s a Feed you already are subscribed to, and a red highlight will mean that it’s a Feed you’ve not seen before.
Hovering over the link will display a tooltip with all kinds of information about the Feed that we’ve been able to figure out.
If it’s a new Feed for you, right clicking on the link will let you subscribe to that feed (”Subscribe to this Feed”.)
That’s all.
The Discover commands will be gone, the Show Discovered Feeds dialog (which was actually quite nice) will be gone, and several obscure preferences will be gone.
Hope y’all like it!
Hmm! I actually hadn’t tried these features before. Having had a play with them, they actually were quite nice, but I agree that the radically simplified version of the feature will be much more discoverable (no pun intended), and thus more useful.
Comment by Kevin Yank — March 17, 2006 @ 8:34 pm
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