Feed Harvest Blog

Turns out there was a bit of an issue with the Yahoo logins today while I was away, figures.

They should be happy now. Sorry about that.

So I took a peek at Google’s new reader bookmarklet (or has it been around a while?) and liked what they were doing with verifying that there was actually a “+xml” alternate link in the page before wasting cycles on the other side, so I used it as a base and tweaked it a bit for my liking.

As usual, feedback welcome.

[UPDATE] if you have issues going to “my account”, logout, then log back in and you should be ok, sorry.

So Yahoo! released BBAuth (Browser Based Authentication) and I thought, hrm, why not. So you can now login to Feed Harvest without creating an account using your Yahoo! id, though odds are good if you are readng this you already have a Feed Harvest account.

Feedback is always welcome.

Ok, It’s been quiet for a long time, a very long time. Sometimes life happens.

Anyway, we’ve made a few changes here and there, the “harvester” has been updated and is doing a better job of keeping feeds upated. There have been a few other changes as well, nothing huge.

Just wanted to let people know that we are still here and haven’t fallen off the planet.

In the interest of saving bits, I turned the local Feed cache back on.

If you find a feed that’s not updating let us know and we’ll take care of it. There are some servers out there that don’t seem to play nice with our caching. I’m working on the issue with the FeedTools author.

So in all my futzing with CSS etc. for the IE fixes I managed to break the layout, a bunch of fonts are bigger than they should be… Feel free to yell at me, Neil already did.

I think Neil is cleaning up the mess I made, I may be a little quiet this week, I need some time to clear the head.

The Smart Feeds should be happy now, and I believe that the feeds are updating as they should, though I wont be sure until tomorrow.

So Internet Explorer is much better than it was on Friday. It’s far from perfect, but it’s getting there

The Smart Feed fix is working away in the background, if the app feels slow that’s the reason.

The default theme has been changed from the Orange to Blue, if you want the Orange back just click on the theme icon and select it.

So I noticed some oddities in the Smart Feeds and the search results, upon digging I found a mismatched link back to the items, oops.

If you’ve been online since Friday evening you have probably noticed there haven’t been any new items showing up in your feeds, I needed to disable updates while handling the fix for this due to the fact that the current hardware this is running on isn’t anywhere near beefy enough to support much load beyond what it currently has.

I’m hoping this process will be done by the end of the weekend (local time), sorry for the inconvienence, the joys of using an early beta site.

It’s been quiet and it’s pretty much my fault. I’ve been trying to get IE to play nice with the existing code, visually it looks good (Thanks Neil), functionally it’s got some issues.

I’ll be gutting the UI and restructuring some things to make cross browser hell a little less hellish. I’ll be cleaning up some UI bugs while I’m at.

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.