Feed Harvest Blog

This weeks been a bit of a blur, trying to remember all we did…

We fixed issues with feed importing, this was mostly surrounding OMPL support. Begun themeing support on the CSS and continually continue to update the CSS. Cause as much as we like orange, doesn’t mean everyone will

Cleaned up support for safari, but still not 100% as it seems everyone versions of standards compliant is different.

A great feature suggested by a user is show all unread items in group. If you single click on the group name, all unread items will load. If you double click on the group name, the feeds inside that group will display, double click again and they will hide. Pulls at the top is an All Unread folder. Click on this and it will display every feeds unread item, regardless of your grouping. Juts keep hitting next in the item view and you never need to move.
keyboard navigation: to help with the above goodness, the left and right keys go back and forward on itmes. J goes to next article, K goes to previous. Really handy and just the start of

keyboard nav. It also matched Google and VI, so you shouldn’t need to know anything else.
Made all non UI pages have look based on current homepage - Cause it’s still good to be on brand right?

Plus we somehow got mentioned on Micro Persuasion which was unexpected and really appreciated. Plus, it made our signups go up beautifully which is a nice perk.

We continue to push forward towards a release. You hopefully noticed that we were offline for the majority of the day (which means people are still using the site ). An issue came up after this weekends updates which was causing some server load and it made sense to leave it off until fixed.

So what is new? Smart Feeds. Want to know which of your feeds talk about “Ajax”? Make a smart feed for your list, and know permanently. Want to find when other feeds, ones that you don’t subscribe to, talk about “Web2.0″? Set the search to search “All Feeds,” and it will search all feeds on our system and will update your list. Like the new feed? Well you can even subscribe to those feeds permanently from within the item view. It’s really a great way to search your feeds as well as introducing yourself to new ones.

We’ve also continued to squash bugs, fixed drag and drop support and launched a intial homepage. We’re hoping to open this baby up come next Monday. Please continue to test and report on bugs, it’s been a big help so far.

We’ve squashed a bunch of bugs, restored folder and feed deletion. I’ve begun to clean up the UI a bit. Tried adding alternating rows to the feed list, but I don’t think it works, too busy.

need to rethink (hell - think) about how tabs display works. popular tagging view is gonna be fun.
The buzz machine will begin soon.