Drag and drop feeds!

A week or so ago, we loaded a cool new feature in NewsGator Online…and I wanted to let you know about it in case you haven’t had a chance to look at it.

NewsGator Online provides a hierarchical folder stucture for you to organize your feeds, and it provides a “organize folders” function so you can arrange them how you wish.  This worked, and we actually had a lot of customers praise this “organize folders” page versus what some other tools are doing.

But now we’ve gone one better.  The way I figure it, if you just want to move a couple of feeds around, you don’t want to have to go to a whole other page…you just want to drag them around.  So now you can!  Take a look:

This shows me dragging a feed into the “NG blogs” folder.  Nothing to learn, nothing to think about…just drag it in there.  Unsubscribe, rename, and more are in the right-click menu on each feed/folder:

So anyway, take a look, and let us know what you think…we have a lot more coming for you soon!  And NewsGator Outlook edition, FeedDemon, and NetNewsWire are all nearing new releases…and after using all of them over the last few weeks, I can tell you that the synchronization and usability story is awesome.  More to come!

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3 thoughts on “Drag and drop feeds!”

  1. mark

    Just wanted to say that I love the new features, but have one suggestion:

    I don’t think that “unsubscribe” should be the first link on the contxt menu, as that is the item I will be clicking the least out of the three. Based on how much use they will get, I would think that the context menu should be in this order:

    1. Visit Site

    2. Rename

    3. Unsubscribe

    Just a constructive criticism, keep up the good work there (and where are those API contest winners?)

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  2. Arvind Satyanaryan

    For the most part I like these changes, however:

    a) it would be nice to have some threshold until which the dragging isn’t activated. I’ve mistakingly activated the dragging when simply clicking on folders too many times

    b) The right-click menu isn’t perfect – on Firefox on OS X, right clicking first gives me the browser’s context menu which I must click away from and then only get NGO’s context menu.

    But the changes are nice, hopefully we’ll get the AJAX right pane updating soon!

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  3. Alan Kleymeyer

    Yes. Love the features. Managing folders was probably my least favorite thing about Newsgator when I first imported my Bloglines feeds.

    Mark all Read would be a nice addition to the context menu.

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