again, this is just an incredible install profile - i'm trying to repurpose an install and will be making "channels" the likely home page - though what i'm really trying to do is automatically organize feeds into channels, versus manually adding stories one at a time (or in little batches)

...the idea here is that "channels" would become like an alltop.com interface to the site

is such a thing already possible? adding individual stories is drop dead simple (select channel, then click the button) - but i'm trying to simply add a feed, and when adding the feed drop the feed into a channel...

ideally this means that "stories" will not import and live forever inside the channel like nodes that never die or expire, because with too many feeds the data store would explode within a year or two!! (at least on my host ;)

i'm happy to steer you toward my live site running beta 5 if you'd like to see what i mean or what i'm talking about.

thanks in advance. i'm sure you're all crazy busy since this just went out today! ;)

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zilla’s picture

zilla commented

..or alternatively, "feed categories" to manage and group large quantities of feeds by subject (not just a tag approach, but hierarchical grouping)? will the book outline achieve this effect? it seems too hard for a user to find/discover...

Dave Meyer’s picture

Dave Meyer commented

This is at the top of my wish list as well. I'd really like to be able to group feeds automatically, then manually select into channels. The book outline doesn't seem to have any effect.

zilla’s picture

zilla commented

i know - using the book outline would, at the most basic level, duplicate sources and in turn create unwarranted chaos...it would be much nicer to "autogroup" rss feeds into channels, and from within channels perhaps simply "bump items to top/sticky status" when that star is clicked (versus add in to the area)

if you come up with any clever workarounds, please let me know...the alternative is to simply do it from scratch with drupal and build an aggregator landing page with panels and the feedapi and related modules - a few folks have done it that way, but it loses the beautiful simplicity of managing news' basic profile!

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alexmc commented

Top of my wish list too.

:-)

Jazz88’s picture

Jazz88 commented

I agree this would be great feature. The site then could run on autopilot somewhat.

I also wonder how this will play with any of the voting api stuff and perhaps comments. It might be nice to be able to comment on the items within the feeds and perhaps vote them up or down.

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alex_b commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This is a duplicate: #624664: Adding Feeds to a Channel, not just articles within a feed..