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2 points by thaddeus 5345 days ago | link | parent

Thanks for posting the app. I wish more arc apps would pop up like this.

Some things I noticed beyond the obvious buttons being buttons:

It would be nice to have some default or optional filters so porn feeds and such can be filtered.

I am still trying to figure out if it works as it supposed to or not. The site says to input your favorite site or blogger, so I put in the following sites/cases and here are the results:

    http://arclanguage.org  -> Hmm, this may suck....
    http://arclanguage.org/forum  -> Hmm, this may suck....
    http://arclanguage.org/rss  -> Hmm, this may suck....
    arclanguage  -> Hmm, this may suck....
    arclanguage.org -> Hmm, this may suck....
    arc language -> found article on arcfn which only talks about arduino
    peace -> Aero Snap makes Australian Open TV cameo
    http://www.google.com/finance -> TurboTax 2009 Discounts For Early Birds 
    My Money Blog (nothing to do with google)
So is this expected? If so why?

Also... A few times I tried the page stopped responding or took a really long time.



1 point by akkartik 5345 days ago | link

Yes I noticed the timeouts in the logs. I'm going to look into that.

Arc language forum wasn't in the feeds I crawled (I should have checked this one term, d'uh!), so the program doesn't know anything about, hence the 'this may suck' message.

Peace: I'm trying to be smarter than just matching on keywords. That didn't pay off here.

with google.com/finance, it tried to find finance news. It's smart enough to know that that URL isn't about google.. will you try that station again, vote on a few stories, tell me what you thought?

Will you try out a few more blog/site titles? I'd love to get the coverage of my crawler stress-tested like this :) Thanks for trying it out like this.

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1 point by akkartik 5345 days ago | link

Re the porn feeds: I'm just not going there. I noticed one feed that had slipped through in the logs this morning, and I've deleted it, so it shouldn't show up again.

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1 point by thaddeus 5345 days ago | link

thx - that's what I had in mind -> to filter them out. I should have chosen my words more carefully. :) I was kinda shocked to see the link pass by in the ticker bar. Though I must admit I did click the link just to make sure it was what I thought it was.... consider it testing. :) lol.

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1 point by akkartik 5345 days ago | link

Thanks for clicking, or I wouldn't have spotted it in the logs :)

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