We sent off version 1.6 to Apple a couple days ago.  There is nothing at all in the way of changes in this one.  This release was just to deal with the issues that iPhone OS 3.0 caused.  As soon as Apple gives it the OK we are going to get working on a version with some of the changes you may have read about in the comments on various posts.

UPDATE: There is a problem on Apple’s end with Feeds in the App Store. We spoke to them a few hours ago and they are hopefully working on the problem.  They could not provide an ETA for us as to when Feeds will be available in the App Store again.

UPDATE 2:  We have no idea whatsoever when Apple will fix the issue of Feeds not being in the App Store.  They *claim* they fixed it yesterday but it sure doesn’t look like it from our perspective.  Trying to communicate with them is the most frustrating experience on earth.  3 different departments are responsible for this part of the App Store and each of them claims they have no phone numbers for the other departments.  Only one department lets us call them.  All that department does is send an email to the other department.  It is agonizingly difficult to get any relevant information from them.  End rant.

FINAL UPDATE: Feeds is FINALLY propagating itself back into all the App Stores across the world.  Thank you everyone for your patience.  Apple has added many gray hairs this week….

We have heard a bunch of people saying that Feeds gets out of sync with Google Reader the past few weeks.  In 99% of cases this is just a case of the settings not matching your reading style.  With this post we hope to clear up what settings should be used for your particular use case. (more…)

To all of the users out there still using the Feeds sync (not Google Reader) there will be a couple hours of downtime later tonight.  We expect downtime to be less than an hour with a maximum downtime of about 3 hours.  We apologize for such short notice and hope to get things up and running as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, this would be a great time to try out using Google Reader to sync with!

UPDATE: The server maintenance did not go as planned and we are experiencing some downtime.  We hope to have everything up and running within a couple hours (by 11:00 AM PST) at worst.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

ANOTHER UPDATE:  Looks like we are back up and running.

We will be doing a bit of work on our servers and there will be an outtage for approximately 1 hour on October 24th.  The downtime will occur between 12 AM and 6 AM Central Time.  During that hour, Feeds will not be able to sync feed items.

We thank you all for your patience while we complete the server upgrade.

This post goes out to all the people who reviewed Feeds.  We thank everyone who took the time to review Feeds (except for those individuals who put a review in for Feeds without purchasing or using it).  Some great ideas were generated in the reviews and they helped to shape what Feeds now is.  If anyone has a review out there for the old version (which is very, VERY different from the 0.95 release) can you please update it so that it is accurate?  For anyone who hasn’t yet reviewed Feeds, if you use the application at all please take a few minutes out of your day to put in a review.  We use the reviews to shape how the future of the product goes, along with the comments on this blog and the comments we receive via email.  We strive to have accurate reviews up that are for the current version to avoid confusion for people who haven’t tried Feeds yet

Thanks.

We just finished adding the last features that will make it into the next update for Feeds.  This one is a MAJOR overhaul.  Feeds was mostly rewritten from the ground up to accommodate the features that everyone requested.  Here is a short video demoing the new features:

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