Feedreader.com - Feedreader 3.09 development release - Comments

Moved all development related talks to Developer Blog

tom-admin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:12:03 +0200

We will continue with development related announcements there.

YES is syncin'!!!!

Crussader — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:35:50 +0200

Finally is working through HTTP Proxy!

Thanks!!!

Development EXE updated again (monday morning)

tom-admin — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:53:09 +0200

Hi!

It's time to update development EXE again. Changelog:

Synchronization

Syncronization to local file works again. Also we added new proxy type (FTP over http) to synchronization options when using FTP backend. Currently it does not have username/password support.

Attention data

There is quite a lot of talk about information overhead. There's just so much information / articles / news that you cannot read through all of them. To overcome this problem a little bit we added experimental feature (we have no name yet) that tracks your interests and rates articles according to these interests. Basically Feedreader looks for articles that are either Starred or in your Archive folder and calculates articles that are important for you. Calculation is based on Article Title and Feed

Now you can sort articles by rating (new column is displayed in article list view) and Feedreader should show first those articles that could be important :). If you move your mouse to rating column then you can also see how rating is calculated for every article.

Of course we are still in beginning of this feature development so things will get better later.

To test feature out add "enableattention=1" to feedreader.ini.

To disable word that are not important in terms of rating calculation add for example following line to feedreader.ini:

attention_wordblacklist=from,with,than,your,new,launch,free,what,video

I have used this feature myself for one week and I can say that it somehow works. :) And if you see a lot of articles that are not important to you then just add problematic words to blacklist.

Fonts Problem

dda1 — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:30:31 +0200

Since downloading the latest version of 3.09 (on 21/2/2007) the selected Font is no longer stable across a re-boot of the machine.

After a re-boot, the font is "one size" smaller than I have selected. I have to click-up-one-size with the buttons on the bottom right of the screen.

If I don't reboot the machine, I can END and RESTART FeedReader as often as I like and the Font is remembered correctly.

David Armitage

Sync Problem

tobiashugener — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:31:47 +0200

I've got the same problem. More precisely: With the first two 3.09 beta releases sync worked just fine. But form the third release or so on, sync doesn’t seem to work anymore (with a local file). When there is no frz-file at the specified folder, nothing happens. No file is created. If one frz-file exists already, the progress bar pops up but no sync is done (and the frz-file is not updated).
Anyway: Thank for this great utility.

Tobias

Sync problem

Crussader — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:08:29 +0200

for some reason the sync is not working for me... I sync before I leave my work and then when I get home I sync to restore the feeds read state but it doesn't do nothing...

Must both feedreaders need to have the same feeds? I have some at my home that I don't check at work.

Thanks...

P.D.: If there's something I can help don't hesitate to contact me.

release date ?

enseignement — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:57:04 +0200

Is there a release date forecasted ?
Thanks for this GREAT newsreader !!
Benjamin

You just open feed's popup

tom-admin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:42:07 +0200

You just open feed's popup menu again and click "open in newsbar". It's the same as doing it first time.

Greetings
Toomas

Vista

justauser — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:32:00 +0200

You place the stylesheet directory in "Program Files". This isn't a good place to place it on Vista. You want it in %APPDATA%\FeedReader30\ which is the same directory that you have the cache in. Placing it there will allow users to easily change the stylesheets.

Newsbar - how to display

justauser — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:28:53 +0200

If I close the newsbar, how do I get it to display again?

Development EXE updated again (friday)

tom-admin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:47:00 +0200

We updated Feedreader with following features:

It's all about Newsbar. Now it's more configurable. I personally like Newsbar quite a lot. Also Newsbar will now be created on Feedreader startup if it was active last time Feedreader was running.

HTTP proxy

Crussader — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:09:30 +0200

Maybe that's the thing... I can't connect using a DOS session for example... but if I use the browser pointing to the ftp like: ftp://user:pass@ftp.domain.com it works... is there a way that the sync uses the proxy configuration in feedreader Options?

Development EXE updated again (wednesday #2)

tom-admin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:55:23 +0200

Progress:

There were some problems with newsbar. It was minimized to taskbar if Feedreader was minimized. Now this behaviour is fixed.
Fixed a bug where starring article with "S" while using "Next unread" command starred wrong article.

Ok Atreus, let's get this cleansing request straight :)

tom-admin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:07:48 +0200

What do you think about following idea:

There will be "clean up database" button in database information form
When you click on this button, new form opens
There are five important things in new form:
- Combobox "Delete articles older than days"
- Delete only read articles / Delete all articles
- Progressbar for article delete
- Ok button
- Cancel button.
If you click on OK then articles are deleted based on your settings.

Can you describe (if it's

tom-admin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:40:42 +0200

Can you describe (if it's not too advanced question ;)) how you connect to remote FTP server with ftp command? Problem is that the FTP proxy support that we have is only for FTP proxy. Http proxy is not the case here. I remember from some old times that then I was behind proxy then I had to do (with FTP command):

connect yourlocalproxyserver
user : user@theserveryouwanttoconnect
password : password

and then I could get to "theserveryouwanttoconnect"

In other words I doubt that HTTP proxy can be used for connecting.

Feedreader 3.09 development release

tom-admin — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:13:35 +0200

After releasing 3.08 we started 3.09 version development. How development functions? We are naming 3.08 as 3.09 and start adding new features and fixing bugs.

Biggest feature of 3.09 should be "article synchronization between multiple Feedreaders (home and office)".

It's not available in this development release but will became available in next dev release that we announce in this thread.

Periodically we make new EXE available (if bugs are fixed or features are added). And today it's time for first beta EXE of 3.09.

What's new?

If you add "highlightfeederrors=1" under [misc] section in feedreader.ini then Feedreader will highlight those feeds that gave you "error" while updating them. So you can for example monitor online status of your site or some intranet servers.
Related to previous feature you can change update interval on feed that gave you an error. If site is down for some reason then Feedreader will try again in specified interval. By default this interval is 1 hour but you can change it by adding "updateintervalonerror=??" (?? can be for example 10 (those are minutes)) under [misc] section in feedreader.ini
We rewrote some parts of internal database logic. Hopefully we get some memory requirements down and some things will get a little bit quicker.

You can download beta release from here.