Comments on: Google Reader Changes and Feeds Update

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:32:50 +0000

Ok, Ok. You guys win. The next update will have ReadItLater support along with an option to turn off the shaking features. You also have to shake a bit harder to trigger them, so that may help out some folks.

By: Fedorov

Fedorov — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:58:29 +0000

Mike, I’m going to hazard a guess from what I read on whatsoniphone.com that you may already be using the API of ReadItLater to support it.
If not, can I please vote for it as the Pro version is way cheaper than Instapaper and the product just rocks!

Thanks

By: John Shkolnik

John Shkolnik — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:20:38 +0000

To add to my previous comment above, this morning I tried to sync and it froze without even coming back with counts first. Closing it took a couple minutes to respond (with some delay even after the app would close i.e. black screen then unresponsive home page for a few) and I got the same result when I tried to sync a second time. I’m just going to switch to Safari-based mobile Google Reader until you have a chance to figure this out. I’m still a fan of the product but I have no choice for now.

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:13:45 +0000

@Michael, it is highly recommended to use Google Reader integration. If you either post or email me your device ID I can get your feed URL’s for you.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:30:42 +0000

I’m having more and more instances of 100 previously read posts showing up as unread (always 100…).

Is there an easy way to migrate my feeds to Google Reader?

By: John Shkolnik

John Shkolnik — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:07:48 +0000

I hate to say it, and I know it’s not going to be very helpful, but Feeds isn’t running well anymore. It might’ve been the most recent version or one prior but there’s something wrong with how it loads items. Sometimes I do a sync, it comes back with the counts, but when I try to view a particular feed’s items it just shows as loading for a long time. This can sometimes be worked around by closing Feeds and reopening but at other times it can get even stranger to do that. I reloaded a couple times, no difference, I then hit “all items” from main page and got the items for a bunch of feeds I used to have for Feeds/Reader but got rid of a while back. Why are they still there? They don’t show anyplace but “all items”.

Another side bug I found while enduring all this is if you drill into a feed and the items are still loading, then back out and go to another feed it might load the results from the previous feed you backed out of.

By: Fedorov

Fedorov — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:37:12 +0000

Mike, there is a great review of ReadItLater here:
http://www.whatsoniphone.com/blogs/read-it-later-pro-review

Certainly sounds like some good competition for InstaPaper and it has some cool features.

By: Fedorov

Fedorov — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:29:19 +0000

Another vote for the shake toggle, or better, a button on the main screen to do the toggle. I gently put my iPhone down twice yesterday on a cushion, picked it up to continue to read my unread posts and found it had toggled to include the read posts, very easy done.

Mike, did you plan on having FEEDS automatically returning us to the main screen once a folder has no more unread counts to save that extra button press in the top-left? I am increasingly using the View All Items more and more because when I hit the Mark All Read button it then takes me back that extra step.

Many thanks.

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:41:44 +0000

@kappa, I am not familiar with ReadItLater. If we get enough requests we can certainly add the feature. We currently have support for InstaPaper which seems to have quite a large following.

By: Mike (admin)

Mike (admin) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:38:06 +0000

@John, consider it done. We will add a toggle in the next update.