Comments on: Feeds Version 1.81 Ready for Apple

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:47:23 +0000

I really like Feeds. Here are a few suggestions for enhancements:

1. Give preferences for large fonts for list of folders view and list of articles view. This is by far my number one request. For me, these views are just a bit small and hard to read. The ‘large’ font setting in an individual article works perfect for me.

2. Add ability to mark a read article as unread. I asked about this above but after using Feeds more I don’t see this capability.

3. Toggle btwn all unread and all articles

4. Not that big a deal but it would be nice to have the preferences in the app not Apple’s settings.

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:32:46 +0000

@Bryan, glad you are liking it! You can mark an item as unread only if you do it pretty quickly (I estimate within about 5 minutes or so). To mark as unread, in the list of articles swipe from left-to-right. You can also swipe right-to-left to star/unstar an item.

Hope that helps!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:30:31 +0000

Hello, new user and very impressed. Have tried most of the other RSS apps but someone missed yours.

Quick question…..Is it possible to mark an article as unread?

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:40:31 +0000

@Chris, thanks for the feedback! We will add your suggestions to our list except for number 6. We have an update just about ready that will go out next week if all goes well.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:08 +0000

Very heavy feeds user here. I own several other RSS readers, but keep coming back.

Here are my top 5 requests:

1. Ability to increase font size on lists (not just article text.)

2. Ability to send LINK by email (rather than full story)

3. Overhaul offline reading: make it work when “unread only” is selected, allow use of “mark as read”.

4. Ability to toggle between New Items/All Items using a button (not shaking) and from any screen.

5. Easier access to “reset” feature, perhaps within the app itself.

And here is one more for good luck:

6. For the internal browser, allow the
“back” button to take you all the way back to feeds standard display, rather than stop with the last web page. (This will be useful for stories with pictures — sometimes you tap them by mistake and they come up in the feeds browser. You have to go back to the list, and then back to the story, which is especially a pain if you are set up for “New Items” only.)
utton work here.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE feeds.

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:30:36 +0000

@Chris, does the RSS feed work properly in Google Reader? Feeds just pulls directly from there. We fixed the contact us page so if you would like please send the feed URL so that we can take a closer look.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:14:57 +0000

I tried to leave this on the “Contact Us” link, but it said the message could not be delivered.

I have an RSS feed that I custom-wrote as an activity indicator for my web site. There are always 5 items in the feed, and they always have the same titles:
* Total Accounts
* New Accounts
* Expiring Accounts
* Visits
* Sales

Basically the problem is that these items never get updated on my iPhone with Feeds. They are always updated on the Mac’s Mail RSS reader, for example.

These items *always* have a new ID (auto-generated GUID) when you ask for the RSS feed, and they always have a “last updated time” that represents the current time, so these should show up as new items every time, but unfortunately they do not.

I hope you can fix Feeds so that it’s not so worried about the title of a Feed item, but looks at the other elements as well.

Chris

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:04:45 +0000

@Pete, glad you like Feeds! Feeds will cache all your RSS articles but not the websites they link to. We do integrate with both Instapaper and ReadItLater which are the best of the best for offline web browsing. Because they both exist and are so solid we opted to do what we do well: the RSS end of things.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:49:34 +0000

I have had Feeds for over a year and love it. The only thing that would make me love it even more is the ability to cache Feeds (like Byline does). This would enable me to read the whole stories when I am outside a Wi-Fi network.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:41:22 +0000

It is working again. Thanks for the quick feedback and a great app.