Comments on: Adjusting Feeds Settings for Your Reading Style

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:38:22 +0000

@LMV, chronological sorting is available in the settings. Go to your iPhones Springboard (desktop) and open the Settings application. You will see an entry for Feeds with all the settings. Photos at this time do now download to your device for offline viewing. This is a feature we have on our to-do list so expect it at some point in the future. Thank you for your suggestions.

By: LMV

LMV — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:56:22 +0000

Requests:

* chronological sorting (oldest to newest) – currently I have to scroll down then arrow up
* unread count visible in reading screen — for everything
* Interval to back sync setting – am I crazy – where is this? iphone > settings?
* shrink the top nav and bottom menu bars or make them disappear then avail with a tap – I’d like more space to read, esp. when using large font.
* medium font?
* white font on black? I like this feature in stanza

Question: Why don’t some photos download? I have another RSS iphone app that works with Google Reader and that downloads photos on some articles during sync for me & are avail offline. With Feeds I only get photos when I’m online. I don’t think it’s a google reader issue b/c I’m able to get the same photos on a different RSS iphone app.

By: jeremyclarke

jeremyclarke — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:31:36 +0000

Thanks for the radically awesome turnaround Mike! I bet any feed you’ve been reading newest-first will look like a total mess if you turn it around, but if you’ve been reading the tail of a given feed for awhile all teh posts you see will be unread except the ones you just read.

Can’t wait for the update!

By: Fedorov

Fedorov — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:02:38 +0000

Thanks for the 50 feed setting Mike. Was going to suggest that once things settle down
Checking UK appstore every 5 mins everyday for apple to publish that bugfix update!
Regards

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:31:26 +0000

I just added a new setting that lets you sort by oldest first or newest first. It will default to newest first. After playing around with it for a bit I can’t say I like it but to each his own. I guess if you are set to show only unread items it will be nice. I also added a new choice to the ‘items per feed’ setting. You can now choose to only keep 50 items per feed. If you decide to go upside down I figured you may want to only have 50 items to go through.

Mike

By: Roddy

Roddy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:59:03 +0000

Another vote for older first.

Ironically, it’s following these very comments that makes that so desirable for me, since comments are often responses to prior comments. As it is, I scroll to the bottom and go backward.

Roddy

By: JG

JG — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:01:03 +0000

Add my vote for chronological sorting. This is a must for those of us that use Feeds to read web-comics (Dilbert, CNTL-ALT-DELETE, etc.).

By the way, is there a way to un-star an article from within Feeds? I’ve search and searched and cannot find a way. Thanks.

By: John Shkolnik

John Shkolnik — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:47:25 +0000

I also like that idea of feed sort order. It does make sense.

How come there is no item count for starred items?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:31:46 +0000

@jeremeyclarke, thanks for the feedback. We do our best to try to keep all of our users happy here. Adding a sort order for your feeds wouldn’t be all that difficult. Like all Feeds feature requests if we hear it enough times it will get moved higher up on the to-do list so if anyone else likes to read their RSS feeds upside down feel free to comment.

Mike

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:03:27 +0000

Today they are back consistently.