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High CPU usage

manichayan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:07 +0300

I agree with this comment. The CPU usage is very high, compared to other programms.
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Thanks

bijubina — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:41:42 +0300

Thanks for the information. Please keep it up.
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Search is currently limited

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:52:05 +0300

Search is currently limited to titles because of performance matters. We did not know how the server (that is really a simple computer) will react if a lot of users will use FRAW. Now we see that there are no problems and we could of course activate the body search. It's really not about functionalities.

FRAW uses Feedreader Connect database that is in either mysql or in ms sql. In our case it's in mysql server. Feedreader Connect will update 100000 feeds without any problems. So here we do not see scalability issues.

Hi! As I said in our

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:45:24 +0300

Hi!

As I said in our announcement - this is not a full product. This is not even alpha. OF course it lacks all the functionalities that you are mentioning.

Now we are having a summer vacation and all the extra features will appear approximately in September

The problem with your

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:41:31 +0300

The problem with your comments to standard Feedreader is that (as I said already earlier) we are not in lack of ideas. We are in lack of resources. Problem is that it's not financially beneficial for us to add any new features to this free version. We will add new features if paying clients need them. This logic is sad but true. If we will choose between windows application and web application then we choose the web application and will put our main development forces there.

What comes to your questions then I will try to answer them...

A1 - Feeds are updated constantly. Even if you have not logged on for two weeks then feeds are still updated daily. We will also add "manual update" button to interface that helps you be 100% sure that everything is up to date.

A2 - There is no garantee in case of free service that we are providing. It's the same as Google - you should not subscribe to private feeds. At the same time it's different if the application is used inside company. They can provide the security. But of course we currently will not make commercial use of your private feeds.

A3 - you may be right about look of the application. At the same time lots of users (also in companies) are already using standard feedreader. This means that this interface is already familiar to them. I would not want to change the layout or color too much here. Of course AJAX stuff should be added, I'm not against this.

Lets let some water to flow

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:21:50 +0300

Lets let some water to flow to see (at least in Estonian we say this). Maybe the demo version will stay free even when it has matured. Or maybe we could do some simple and cheap service. We will have to see how application plays out.

I think we will at least do

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:20:08 +0300

I think we will at least do the "unread articles" part of your wishes. In fact the feeds are technically the same smartfeeds as in normal Feedreader. We just cannot currently offer the fullblown smartfeed generator/editor.

1) - currently we do not

tom-admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:18:36 +0300

1) - currently we do not know that yet. Of course it could be possible to do some external application. Javascript alerts inside the window are not enough.

2) - Now there's a logout button

3) - Now there's a username

4) - Our primary focus is still in developing software (and not service) for end users. At the same time there can be this kind of free service for demo purposes.

5) - Yes, we have thought about that. But as main focus is not currently in standard Feedreader and FRAW integration then we have marked this with a little bit lower priority. You know you first have to create the elementary functionalities :).

6) - this is not a problem at all. We will eventually do this when the interface has matured. We could even use the same already translated strings in normal Feedreader.

Search and what is inside the database?

ppfr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:35:58 +0300

When you say "Search is only using article titles.".
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Is this temporary, or do you give-up on having the same search function as in feedreader for PC?
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What exactly do you store in the database on your servers? Do you store 100% the same information as in RSSENGINE.FDB or just the feed items titles? (in this case, the interest of an online version is limited...)
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Few features to make it fully functionnal

ppfr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:29:20 +0300

A quick question: how do you edit a feed? For example, I was trying to read the CNN feed URL, but couldn't open feed properties. I hope that you will manage to hack via javascript the right click in the web browser.
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In the same vein, how do you delete a feed?
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Will you support opml file import soon?
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I guess all of this is in the workings, but these points are crucial to make feedreader web version fully usable (smart feeds being next one on the list).
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So much to say about this server based feedreader...

ppfr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:24:52 +0300

I am wondering what kind of feedback you are expecting about this new version? I am asking this, because I have so much to feedback to you. But given my experience being almost 100% ignored when giving feedback about feedreader for PC (free version), I am not enclined to leave many comments to help you make this web server version a better product...
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So I will stick to the minimum here.
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First, wow, what a great idea, and the implementation is great indeed. Although some functions may still be under development, this is already a greatly functional tool. Bravo to the dev team for such a nice idea and implementation!
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I developped myself a similar tool, using a web interface. The only thing that I added is that my tool supports ANY, just ANY website, whether it has a rss feed or not. And I scrap *all content*, that is not just the 1st 3 lines that generally appear inside feed items, but the full article that is on the web page (without the commercials, of course :) ).
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What makes FRAW stand-out from the crowd is that you store all the data on your side, it is a true in-the-cloud application.
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Question#1: what is the frequency of updates? I mean does it work even when I am not logged in, so that when I log-in, I will immediately see the list of my feeds with up-to-date unread articles? Or do you update the database just when the user logs-in, so that the user must wait a while after logging-in, as is the case with the traditional feedreader?
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Question #2: security: I extensively use custom-made feeds that require a password. The password is inside the feed URL, in plain letters. As long as I use feedreader on my PC, I am fine with this. But uploading feed URLs to your server with sensitive information makes me nervous. What is the security here? What is the chance of other users hacking the system and accessing my private list of feeds? What garantees me that you will not make commercial use of my usage stats and feed URLs?
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Finally, I suggest that you spend more time working on the user interface. Jasvascript and AJAX offer so many possibilities. In my opinion, you are trying too much to make the web service look like feedreader for PC. And the result is too "static". You could make some fancy animations a la iPod, scrolling in 3D trhoug feed items (I made a propotype of this already). Your interface is too "cold", you should work on rounding the corners and making things more dynamic and fun to use.
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mcworm — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:25:12 +0300

I think I’ve never reviewed this feed reader before, but let me tell you that this is my favourite feed reader. FeedDemon is also a good one, but I find it a bit complicated to use. FeedReader is way easier than any other feed reader available and it’s surely the best!
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Too bad it won't be for the general public

MenthiX — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:47:58 +0300

Shame it won't be available to the general public.

I have been looking for a way to check my feeds from multiple locations, but I really don't like Google Reader's interface for some reason. I'm still using FeedReader only on my main system. It would be so nice if I could use this to check my feeds from every pc, having read items and all up to date at all locations, while still maintaining the interface I like.

Could individuals pay to use this once it's ready for prime time?

Some Feedback/Questions

malvarez_gis — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:22:43 +0300

1) How you get inform there are new feeds? Feedreadeer desktop has an orange cube next to the system clock, how will be in the web edition?
2) Once you are inside the web system, how do you logout?
3) As a suggestion on top of the interface should be clearly the username logged, maybe my partner logs to my browser's FRAW and I don't get advice on that shitch
4) Is this planned to be a free of charge service?
5) Import/export feeds feature will be highly recommended
6) Localizing it in other languages like in spanish will be also desirable to spread it.
7) Suggested to develop as a Firefox Add-on to log easily same as http://www.getgspace.com or http://fireftp.mozdev.org/ for Firefox

Thanks

Martin A.

Firefox Add-On

Murphy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:20:45 +0300

I am glad I found Feed Reader. It's the best RSS reader that I have ever used. A Firefox extension would be a great option I would love to see.

Cheers,

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