Comments on: New DelphiFeeds.com Beta now online

By: Michael Whittingham

Michael Whittingham — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:14:50 +0000

Great job! I love the new beta site.

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:13:41 +0000

Leonardo: thanks a lot! The site isn’t built with Delphi and to be honest, I haven’t really used any Delphi technologies to build a real web app/site yet. I think Delphi is especially great for native Windows desktop and client/server applications, but there are better languages and frameworks for web apps out there IMHO. We’ve used PHP and the CodeIgniter framework to build the site (the old DelphiFeeds.com also used this combination).

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:27:46 +0000

Hi Dennis, I really like the new design, congratulations!

BTW, do you use a Delphi technology to build the site?, WebBroker, Intraweb, or the like?

Leonardo.

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:37:14 +0000

@m. Unfortunately, we won’t be keeping the old site, as maintaining both sites would be too time-consuming (they don’t share the same database).

@Ken: I just compared the two sites, and I only see one more posting without scrolling on the old site compared to the new one (7 vs 6). It might look like there’s a lot less information on the site, because we made more use of whitespace, but it’s actually pretty much the same information.

@Hans: Thanks a lot!

By: Hans

Hans — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:28:08 +0000

I really like the new site which has a great contemporary look. Too often Delphi ressources have a feeling of having been made in times long gone… – Many thanks for your work!

By: Ken Knopfli

Ken Knopfli — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:03:40 +0000

The old one does all that’s needed and packs more into less space.

The voting isn’t worth the lost screen space. An informative title tells me if I’m interested, anyway.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I say.

By: m.

m. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:45:27 +0000

i don’t like new design because i don’t need the extra features (favorites, voting etc). With new design it’s harder to get quick overview.
I hope you keep the simple (old) interface also (a ‘la old.delphifeeds.com) because some of us like simple things

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:59:51 +0000

Thanks for the nice comments and feedback, we really appreciate it!

@Xepol: It’s a lot harder to design for a site with variable width and make sure that the site is still easy to read, so we have decided to go with a somewhat fixed size for the new version (the width is still flexible to some degree). We also use 1900×1200 screens, but usually do not have the browser window maximized. Don’t you find it hard to read text when the lines are very long?

@Isaam: we will discontinue the forum with the new site. We have found that Stack Overflow is a lot better for technical questions, and the Embarcadero newsgroups (which are also available via web now at http://forums.codegear.com/) are a lot better for non-technical discussions.

@Lachlan: I will make sure to add it as an available widget, but I’m not sure if we will display it on the sidebar by default.

@Rif: Thanks for the suggestion, that makes sense. Could you post the suggestion to http://delphifeeds.uservoice.com/ so that it’s considered for a future version? Thanks!

By: Rif

Rif — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:19:54 +0000

Thanks for the work. Delphi Feeds is a great one-stop Delphi blogs agregator.

I would like an additional feature. Some easy overview where you could go several weeks backwards and re-find a blog posting that I remember having read. Perhaps some table overview where you can see a whole month of entries on one long page.

I know there is the “previous entries” but I would like a larger overview.

By: Lachlan Gemmell

Lachlan Gemmell — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:27:51 +0000

You could perhaps add the Delphi section of RefactorMyCode.com to the new site too. That could be just the thing to give the Delphi side of that site the kick along it needs right now.