As a learner, I subscribed many blogs with Google Reader to catch up on news in Rails community, but the never-stop message flow overwhelmed me soon. The feature I really want is to discover what's new and what's hot with ease. Twitter might be a good choice, but for me, the information gathered there conveys too much noise, not mentioned that the site has been banned in China, where I'm living my whole life. So it could be better to create my special service to fulfill my own needs.
Instead of building another general purpose online feed reader--there are too many there--I want it to be as simple as possible. It fetches feeds regularly for displaying links, and counts views for each article for sorting by popularity, that's it.
Now http://railsposts.com is up and running, you can take a try. It's a beta release, and some useful advanced features (such as searching) are planned but not implemented yet. Furthermore, the feed listing there is by no means complete, it's for testing only. If your favorite feeds are not included, tell me or just wait, since I'm considering adding a form for submitting reader's choice. Hope you'll like it.
Suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
- gnowoel