Support multiple users from a single installation

[JPC]

I'm planning to use gregarius at the office (maybe with 6 or 7 people). Each of one wants its own gregarius with its own feeds. I mean, each of those people are not looking at the same feeds or maybe they have common feeds but they do not read them at the same time. Currently, I need to install many gregarius copy (code + database) as number of users to do that. When time to upgrade gregarius comes, I need to upgrade many copies again. We can try to setup symlink to have only one copy of the code, but we stay with multiple copies of database. I think it would be great to have a multi user option in gregarius. You can have a master gregarius admin who cans create user account. Each account has its own feeds and its own preferences. Maybe you can add also an option to exchange feeds between account ("send this feed to someone" with a drop down where you choose who). Finally, it's similar to bloglines :) But we don't want to use bloglines :) Thanks /JPC

[mbonetti]

Definitely around 0.5 or 0.6, but don't hold you breath :)

If you'd like to try a symlinked install, all you need is to define a distinct database schema prefix for each user. Still I must admit I've never tried this.

[oe@…]

I'm looking for something similar. I want to set up a service for a small community of users that share the same interests. Most of these users have no idea about RSS, and they all go through the same links every day to check if something new is published at various blogs and sites.

The admin set up the same default feeds for all users, and users get a cookie that identifies them to remember the read/new status of the feeds, collapsed folders, etc. This makes it very easy to get started using the reader, and makes the user experience nice from the start.

Making an account is the next logical step for active user that want to add feeds themselvs, and have a "sticky" reader between different browser sessions.

The key is to provide a pre-seeded set of feeds for the community, and make it work without requiring registering an account or downloading software. Non technical users do not understand OPML files and installing readers.

Hope this is something interesting for the Gregarius devs. I've been looking for the described feature for a long time, and Gregarius have such a nice interface that I really want to use it.

[anonymous]

I think this would be an awesome feature, and something I thought it already offered. I am in the process of setting up gregarius and wanted to know how to enable multiple users. Alas!

[anonymous]

I vote for this!

[mdodoo]

Adding a "multiuser" keyword to this ticket.

[mdodoo]

Changing the milestone because I think it is likely that this feature is going to slip.