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

[holyschist]

I have not found this to work well for finding feeds. I recently unsubscribed from a feed, then changed my mind, and I could not find it again by entering the URL. I think this is also why there's a fairly high rate of feed duplications--DW doesn't seem to automatically recognize that two slightly different feed URLs are really for the same blog.

[denise]

Yeah, unless the URL is exactly the same, the system won't recognize it was the same feed. We have a few bugs open for making feed match fuzzier for that very reason.

[holyschist]

Is there a simple way to suggest consolidating feeds (are feed consolidable?)? Or a tag-wrangler type job that could be done, maybe by someone who's not much of a programmer yet?

[denise]

There is a way to do it, but we broke the console command with the friend split and haven't updated it yet. There's a bug open for it, but nobody's gotten around to fixing it yet!