What is Fraidycat?
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Fraidycat is a new type of single-page "reader" - a dashboard for monitoring social media accounts, discussion websites and blogs. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. The page updates as new posts are discovered.
Fraidycat also focuses on "importance" - each account or website that you follow can be assigned a priority, whether you want to keep up in "Real-time" or if you "Rarely" want updates. In this way, you can track important "Real-time" follows on the front page, while lower priority items are hidden away.
Other features are:
- Sync. If you are logged in to Chrome, your follows will be synced between any Chrome browsers running the extension.
- Import and export of your saved data to JSON, OPML and HTML files.
- Tags. Follows can be categorized into separate tabs. Even emoji can be used as tags!
- Concise. Rather than filling up your display with large posts, each follow is given two lines of summary. (See our screenshots.)
- Live and pinned posts. If an account is currently 'live' or has 'pinned' posts, these are shown in that follow's status line.
- Dark mode. You can alternate between light and dark themes.
- Fraidycat supports most social networks and feed types.
Fraidycat is a whole new concept in tracking creators on the Web. If you don't quite see how this is different from a classic feed reader, check out our video above to see the tool in action.
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- Easy to use
- Positive contribution to the world
- Great implementation
- Cool features
- Helpful video tutorial
- Desire for pop-up notifications for updates
- Amazing idea and implementation
- Simple to use
- Encouragement for a developer community
- Positive reception on platforms like HN
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Fraidycat requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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Fraidycat has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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