Comments on: Ah - Down to 391 feeds. Lower than I’ve ever been http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/03/ah-down-to-391-feeds-lower-than-ive-ever-been/ WHARRGARBL!!1! Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:32:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Josh Bancroft http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/03/ah-down-to-391-feeds-lower-than-ive-ever-been/#comment-25536 Josh Bancroft Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:17:14 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/03/ah-down-to-391-feeds-lower-than-ive-ever-been/#comment-25536 Thanks for the response! I use those methods, and they work, but they don't scale very well to large numbers of feeds. Anything that you have to do one at a time is a pain when you're talking about dozens or hundreds of feeds. Here are some specific features that I'd love to see in this area: 1. Ability to rename tags/folders. I can work around it by making a new folder, adding that tag to the feeds, then removing the old tag. Tedious, and it breaks down when you have tags with similar names. Which leads me to... 2. Ability to mass edit feeds by specific tag, not just filter matches. For example, I have a tag called "people", and a tag called "short list - people". If I want to edit/unsubscribe to just the feeds in the "people" tag, I can't do it without entering "people" in the search/filter, then selecting only the "people"-tagged feeds, skipping over the "short list - people" feeds that also show up in the results, because they match the filter. 3. Ability to delete a tag and unsubscribe from all the feeds in it. Related to the two above. That's a start - I might write up some more detailed/nitpicky feedback later, but these were the biggest problem I had when cleaning out my almost 800 feeds. Thanks again for the response! That's one of the reasons I love you guys! :-) Thanks for the response!

I use those methods, and they work, but they don’t scale very well to large numbers of feeds. Anything that you have to do one at a time is a pain when you’re talking about dozens or hundreds of feeds.

Here are some specific features that I’d love to see in this area:

1. Ability to rename tags/folders. I can work around it by making a new folder, adding that tag to the feeds, then removing the old tag. Tedious, and it breaks down when you have tags with similar names. Which leads me to…

2. Ability to mass edit feeds by specific tag, not just filter matches. For example, I have a tag called “people”, and a tag called “short list - people”. If I want to edit/unsubscribe to just the feeds in the “people” tag, I can’t do it without entering “people” in the search/filter, then selecting only the “people”-tagged feeds, skipping over the “short list - people” feeds that also show up in the results, because they match the filter.

3. Ability to delete a tag and unsubscribe from all the feeds in it. Related to the two above.

That’s a start - I might write up some more detailed/nitpicky feedback later, but these were the biggest problem I had when cleaning out my almost 800 feeds.

Thanks again for the response! That’s one of the reasons I love you guys! :-)

]]> By: Mihai Parparita http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/03/ah-down-to-391-feeds-lower-than-ive-ever-been/#comment-25529 Mihai Parparita Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:40:10 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/03/ah-down-to-391-feeds-lower-than-ive-ever-been/#comment-25529 Any specific ways in which you think unsubscribing could be easier? Right now, in addition to the settings page, you can also unsubscribe when viewing a specific feed (from the "Feed Settings" menu) or from the trends page (useful for pruning feeds that don't update or that you don't read). Mihai Parparita Google Reader Engineer Any specific ways in which you think unsubscribing could be easier? Right now, in addition to the settings page, you can also unsubscribe when viewing a specific feed (from the “Feed Settings” menu) or from the trends page (useful for pruning feeds that don’t update or that you don’t read).

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

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