Support for multiple accounts?

[haydur]

So I just signed up and noticed that I cannot add multiple accounts
for the same service. May be I have two accounts on YouTube or
flickr...? But most importantly, why can't I add two blog feeds? I
think there're a few people like me who post on more than one blog.
Only letting people import one blog feed kills the whole "aggregation"
thing, doesn't it?

(I have sent this to you using the contact form already, sorry for the
duplication. I thought may be other users can chime on this too!)

[Aaron]

Thanks for the feedback haydur. Adding support for multiple accounts
will require a bit of thought on our part - we want to make sure we
keep things as simple as possible for people. We agree that you should
be able to do this, so we'll try and add this support soon.

Aaron

[haydur]

OK. That was insanely quick. Thanks!

You know, I know a thing or two about web dev, and I understand
loading, storing and parsing multiple accounts would require some
major back (and front) end work. But what about generic RSS feeds
(like my blogs), that's mostly just parsing the content right? I mean,
one of your competitors (whose initial match those of an open source
browser) allows that... along with multiple accounts.

So yeah, please look in to it. And sorry for not mentioning that your
site is awesome! :)

[Aaron]

Thanks for the kind words (that the site is awesome).

As far as the technical hurdles, they are as follows:

1) ensure that users do not pull from the same feed twice
2) update the account interface so that it's possible to add a second
account without making it too complex
3) ensure that our system, which was designed to allow this, truly
works as we designed it
4) consider ways that this might be misused (intentionally or
otherwise) and do what we can to prevent it (we don't want to be bad
"neighbors" to other people's APIs)

So while the concept is straightforward, there is some work involved.
Still, we do agree with you that you should be able to do it. Stay
tuned.