RSS Feed Search

[kellan_the_tabby]

Title:
RSS Feed Search

Area:
Feeds

Summary:
It'd be awful nice to have a way to _search_ for a feed, instead of scanning through the list (http://www.dreamwidth.org/syn/list.bml).

Description:
I know you can sort the feed by feed title, and that _does_ help, but there are still some that aren't named what you might expect, and it's a lot to slog through. A simple search box (okay, it might not be simple, I'm no programmer) would make finding feeds a lot easier.

Poll #2541 RSS Feed Search

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
44 (86.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (11.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[kyrielle]

But if you want to find a feed for your favorite site, you may not know what the feed address is. Or you may know they have multiple feeds (either for topics, or to support every flavor of RSS and atom) and not want to have to test every one of them or risk creating a duplicate. Being able to put either a keyword you think will appear in the title, or in the site's URL, would let you find all the feeds from the site.

I don't know if it would be useful enough, but I can see where just using the feed URL would be insufficient in some cases (I've encountered them before, and carried on wondering if I just created a duplicate feed or not).

[aedifica]

I could see that. I haven't been in any of those situations, which is why I asked what I did, but that makes sense to me.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Some of both, and it seems that a keyword search would solve (or at least assist in solving) both issues.