I imported an OPML file from Inoreader and it turns out that the subscriptions simply keep loading forever, never retrieving any items. Subscribing to that same existing feed again manually fixes the issue.

The API call to sendgrid occasionally fails. We should move it to a background task (faster registration flow) and add retries (no more failed registrations)

There are over 2000 feeds to keep in sync now, scraping isn't keeping up. We need to make it a bit more efficient.

Some ideas:

• Prioritize popular feeds while scraping
• Run on multiple cores
• Reduce timeouts
• Disable getMetaInformation for less popular feeds
• Use a task queuing system to distribute the work

When a URL is provided, it can sometimes cause a duplicate entry if the protocol is http or https. This is because they are essentially different URLs.

Fix: Remove protocol before submission and run through normalize.js

This is an outcome of the yesterday outcome of when I was working on the Dockerfile.

As you may see the Dockerfile, we are currently exposing the 3000 port, because the application is running within his own user. Since this will affect also any other user that would like to self-host this application, probably on Linux or Mac environments would not be possible, unless you change the port in the configuration file.

What I suggest, since the pm2 process usually is also being run ( or mostly being run ) by non-root users, is to change the port to something over 1024, in this case I've chosen 3000. Whatever port it will be, please align the change in the EXPOSE rule of the Dockerfile and remove this hacky line.

Thank you in advance,
Julian

As reported by Fabio Federici:

• https://code.facebook.com/posts/rss
• http://firstround.com/review/feed.xml

What about an official Docker for this awesome project?

Thank you in advance :)

The primary feature stopping me from using Winds now is the ability to read the content of the articles.

Currently we can switch between list (just the title) and card (image, title, and brief summary) views. Personally, I prefer to read as much content as the feed provides, i.e., the full description, if available, otherwise the summary. I'll only open the link to the original source if the content included is incomplete and it is interesting enough.

There are several possibilities that are quite common among readers:

• List : just the title
• Card : grid layout of title, image, and brief summary
• Magazine : list layout of title, image, and brief summary
• Full : title, image, and the full description, or the summary if the description isn't available

Having the full content of an article in the app might disrupt the 'click' engagement personalization metric, but perhaps that could be countered by introducing other metrics, e.g., time spent on an article while active. And tagging.

Send out an optional curated/personalized email on a weekly basis featuring popular blog posts.

some users aren't using stream and others aren't using sendgrid for sending emails, it would be nice if replacements for those were possible.

When manually entering the URL for a site it is easy to forget the 'http://'. If the protocol could be added by the feed checker that would be nice.
Right now it says "Please enter a URL" when trying to do so, which is potentially confusing for less advanced users.

Here's an overview of some feeds that currently don't parse.

http://tjomlid.com/feed/
https://theintercept.com/feed/?lang=en
https://www.javascript.com/feed/rss
http://blog.squarespace.com/blog?format=rss
http://blog.nodejs.org/feed/
http://blog.tmorris.net/atom.xml
http://www.digitaling.com/rss
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProbablyOverthinkingIt
http://36kr.com/feed
https://coreos.com/atom.xml
http://mcavage.me/atom.xml
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/rss
http://www.qdaily.com/feed.xml

I think it would be good if it was possible to export RSS feeds exportable to an importable backup file. But not to back up every single article that is posted in the RSS feeds, only to back up the RSS feeds themselves.

Cannot add a URL that includes a Country Coded TLD.

Example:
ucunion.com works fine, but ucunion.com.au doesn't.

Looks like this is due to inbuilt pattern in the regex. See Screenshot Below

Page:
https://winds.getstream.io/app/personalization-feed

Browser:
Chrome/macOS 10.12

Example URL:
http://ucunion.com.au/feed/

Edit:
This seems to be a DOM only issue, as when I remove it using dev tools it works fine.

The loglevel should be easily configurable via the command line for scrape_feeds, scrape_favicons and the test flow. Right now you need to edit the file to change the loglevel which isn't great.

Since Google Reader died, I imported all my data from it to Feedly, now that this is out, would be cool to import all that data into this.

Show a secondary link to the comments for sites like Product Hunt, Reddit, HNews, Lobsters, DesignerNews etc

We're currently discussing the roadmap for 0.2.0
So far we're thinking about:

• OPML import

• Listen to changes to feeds in realtime

• Link to comments on HNews, PH, Reddit etc.

• Improving RSS scraping performance

• Stats on which feeds are failing when users add them

• Docker

What else should be part of 0.2.0?

Future releases:

• Social auth (Facebook/Google)
• Expand the number of topics
• Weekly emails
• Suggestions for feeds to follow

When clicking on a comments link below the article, you would be taken to a link within the Winds application and be able to comment via Disqus. You would also be able to share the article on your Facebook feed or via Twitter. This would give Winds a viral boost.

A one-time login link that then forces a password change would be a better practice.

I had a heck of a time getting to the Github link! Had to use dev tools to search for the link. :)

Right now we only use clicks and impressions as an indicator for interest. User in this thread:

#11

Suggested adding direct up and down votes.

I hope this is the place to raise this concern.

I initially subscribed to

1. Programming
2. Gaming
3. AI & Machine Learning

then I noticed that all the items in my feed are from HackerNews.

While I will not be surprised if a lot of HN items turn up, I would expect items from other sources too. Gaming items aren't always found on HN, for instance.

Is this by design?

Actually Winds allows every user who knows the Url where the app is being hosted, to be used by everyone.

Would be cool to have the possibility to configure only one user, in order to make it more personal ( say you want to host this into your own website hosting space ).

Thank you in advance :)

I get CORS errors when I try to log in unless I use https:

Fetch API cannot load https://winds.getstream.io/api/topics?limit=10&sort=createdAt%20DESC. 

Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header contains the invalid value ''. 
Origin 'http://winds.getstream.io' is therefore not allowed access. 
Have the server send the header with a valid value, or, if an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

Logging in via https is fine, and preferable, so perhaps requests via http should be automatically redirected to https?

I found out that if for some reasons the application crashes during an API processing ( say Password Reset ), the CSRF token prevents the user to use any other call to the Winds app.

Therefore a way to handle this situation should be possible. As of today, the only way to fix this is by clearing the localStorage and/or related Cookies.

Thanks in advance :)

For various reasons feeds could have an uninformative name, for example when subscribed to subfeeds of publications, which cover only part of a topic but their name doesn't show that. There are quite a few scenarios.
I propose being able to change the display name of a feed.

Not sure how prevalent this is in OS, but I just had a linter error and realized I had to stick to a previous version for my eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y devDependency. Have you considered shrinkwrapping dependencies?

Right now every article is repeatedly sent to Stream even if the data didn't change. We can optimize that and improve performance.

Most people aren't going to switch if they have to enter urls in one by one, not worth the time to try something you might not like.

It would be nice to be able to switch from other RSS reader (like e.g. Digg Reader) by importing (uploading) an OPML file or Google Takeout data.

Response:

Here are some items we're considering for Winds 0.3:

• Improvements to ranking algorithm
• Sharing via Buffer
• Suggested feeds: #37
• Social auth (Facebook)
• Explicit upvotes: #29

Let us know what changes you'd like to see for Winds!

As said yesterday,
this is an outcome of when I was working yesterday on the Docker.

I was trying to setup my MONGO_URI environment variable to something like

MONGO_URI="mongodb://localhost:27017/winds"

but the application complained that something with orm could not be started ( I guess the sails-mongo package was not able to use it ).

So I went to your sourcecode and I found this and this where you are actually declaring MONGO_URL, which is not the same declared in the README.md file.

Therefore I suggest to update the readme with a valid example of connection string that actually works. On my side, the Mongo default installation doesn't have any requirement for user or password, you can just connect and use it.

Thanks in advance,
Julian

huffingtonpost.com -> http://www.huffpostarabi.com/
espn.com -> http://www.espn.com/
michaelmoore.com -> http://michaelmoore.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelmoore.com%2Ffeeds%2F

Looks like some sort of caching issue:

The password reset feature doesn't work and changing password almost never works. Currently neither the password I used before or the password I tried to change to works, for some reason. So it looks like I will be locked out of my account when I close my current Winds session.

As I saw actually, all the configuration files ( but for comodity I'll the production one ) have all hardcoded the baseUrl.

production.js: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds/blob/master/config/env/production.js#L7
.env_example: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds/blob/master/.env_example#L7

I suggest to improve the usage of this ENV in ALL the config/env/*.js files, in order to avoid confusion by the end user.

Thanks in advance :)

When subscribing to this feed: http://www.feed43.com/bloomberg_view.xml
its' title shows up as 'Bloomberg Technology' instead of 'Bloomberg View' and contains no items. If you check the actual feed, you will notice the discrepancy.
What could cause this bug?

This is an outcome of the yesterday outcome of when I was working on the Dockerfile.

I was trying to setup my current email server on Winds, when I found that the application is not able to setup any kind of other server, because of the way the source code is being written up.

Actually you can change the configuration on this file although, the reality is that you need ( as an example of the smtp ) is to totally override the provider obvject inside the Mail Service, changing only Backend, Username and Password is not enough.

My proposal is to make the configuration more flexible, in order to pass the full provider object in the config file. Therefore it will be possible to use any other methodology without the need to rewrite the Service.

Thanks in advance,
Julian

How does one delete a registered account? It should not be overly difficult to find the option to delete your own account.

Add Buffer to list of social options

I've found out that when you disable the sentry.active property inside production.js, when the code reaches this line, for example, it just crashes.

Would be awesome if all around the code this check is being done, in order to just console.log if sentry is not being used.

Thanks in advance :)

See this thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5b48vb/winds_010_open_source_rss_reader/

Enable realtime notifications for timeline and rss

Warning: flattenChildren(...): Encountered two children with the same key, site-581cab545632dccc09c8455f. Child keys must be unique; when two children share a key, only the first child will be used.

After I try the demo, if I want to host my own version, I'd like a way to export the URLs I've entered on winds.getstream.io to then import into my own hosted version.

Currently TinyRSS is the only option for users of Sandstorm and I'm dying for a better solution. So much that I started writing my own RSS app as well but I don't have the time.

It'd be great if Winds could be configured to deploy on Sandstorm.

https://sandstorm.io

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/