Ignoring the spicy innuendo of the name — well, at least to my mind, maybe you Puritans are unfazed — FEED ON FEEDS has become my new aggregator of the moment over the previously mentioned Lilina. Lilina had me at “hello” until it silently failed on several malformed feeds. That wouldn’t be so bad if it survived such indignities but it didn’t. Instead my entire aggregation page would simply not load and the only notice I ever got that something was awry was the PHP error_log in the aggregator directory. No, that won’t work sweetcheeks.
So, skippy mentioned FOF on the #wordpress IRC channel and I decided to give it a spin. Hell, it couldn’t be worse than Lilina after all. As it turns out, it has all the advantages of Lilina — save, perhaps, for the ability to collapse posts — along with some much-needed usability enhancements. Oh, and it admirably handles malformed or dead feeds which damn near makes it a runaway champion right there.
Give it a shot. Note that FOF requires the use of a MySQL database unlike Lilina so if your web host doesn’t swing that way, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
6 Responses to “Out with Lilina, in with Feed On Feeds”
Hi! I couldn’t find a direct email link, so I’ve used this comment … sorry!
I just wanted to say how FABULOUS your site looks, and how ENVIOUS I am of your efforts. I’m a newbie to both blogging and WordPress, and your site is what I aspire to someday being able to produce. It’s easy to get around, pleasing on the eye, and not full of clutter or adds. Nice!
Andrew
No worries, Andrew, I don’t publish an email on purpose (spam, of course) so feel free to leave a comment whenever
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That’s very kind of you to say, thank you very much. Good luck in your own blogging pursuits and keep at it… this place started out as a rather hideous concoction, went through various phases, and finally found a decent design now. I’ll be the first to tell you: I’m nobody’s designer
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Wow, FoF is great, the only thing I don’t like is how older posts are first, I would rather have new posts on top, other than that, it is great
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G’day G’day. I have become a admin on lilina. Can you please post which feeds it failed on so I can fix? Thanks.