Mike

- When you send an email with a link to an item and then return to Feeds and hit the back button to go back to the list of items in the feed, it takes you back to the top instead of that item’s location in the feed. Can this be adjusted?

- Find a spot for a back button for the internal browser. Often an item’s full page will have a couple pages you have to navigate to in order to read the whole thing, and it would be nice to be able to go back if you want to reread something

Thanks for all your fantastic support and hard work on this great app!

Andrew

Mike

- Performance/slow: When Apple finally finishes reviewing the current version you should see some of the performance issues disappear. The ones that will not are the download time. We can’t do much about that one. Screen freezing shouldn’t happen anymore with the update.

- Stability: the bug you mention has been wrapped up in the update as were a few other little tweaks. Since we have been using the update we have not successfully got Feeds to crash (and we try pretty hard).

Mike

Firstly, thanks for a great app – being able to read my google reader feeds from my PC or iPhone is a killer feature. And your resposne to my questions last month about how my Google password is used was reassuring.

I haven’t looked through all the posts above, but just to let you know, here are the issues I see with v1.22. Hopefully these will help you find and fix some bugs. You don’t need to respond to this, I suspect you’re busy coding and testing!

Note that I’m using google reader integration. I have about 36 feeds.

- Feature: A nit, but it would be good to see the feed name (esp. when viewing all items in a category) and timestamp when reading an item. (It appears in the feed summary view, but not when rading the feed item itself.)

- Feature: I see others have asked for this too, but it would be good to be able to mark a subset of Google Reader feeds for sync with the iPhone. It would speed up the sync, and some feeds are not of interest on the phone.

- Performance/slow at startup and after sync: I don’t mind the 3-4 seconds it takes for the “Loading” message to pop up and disappear, but it takes a further 12-15 seconds before the unread counts appear. (Or, if I open a feed during this time, about the same time before the items appear.) Newsstand is a lot faster, so I think it should be doable. This delay also happen after a sync. And occasionally, the screen will freeze for several seconds (no response to touches or even button presses), although I can’t reproduce this reliably.

- Stability: There are some general stability issues. Often, when returning from an item to the feed summary, or back to the category or top level views, Feeds crashes back to the springboard. Again, it’s hard to pin down when this happens.

Thanks again,
Brian.

Hopefully, my following explanation will be clear not just for you but for all users.

Check out this post for more information on syncing and the likes:
http://feeds.prime31.com/adjusting-feeds-settings-for-your-reading-style/

Mike

I know Google doesn’t use folders but that is how it appears so that is how I describe it. If it isn’t possible to “move” a feed from one “folder” then you either have a bug in your UI or you need to update your UI.

If I edit an existing Feed which is in a “folder” there is a checkmark on that “folder”. If I choose another “folder” the checkmark is moved and only the new “folder” is selected. To me that indicates that it now should appear only in the new “folder”. If that is not the case then it’s a bug in the UI as I can’t know that I have to uncheck something that isn’t checked.

Regarding syncing you have lots of reports above about how Feeds looses track of the read/unread posts. As yet another example my Feeds currently shows all posts as unread although I _know_ I have read most of them. But Feeds seems to have partial knowledge about it because it’s unread count doesn’t match the unread posts. If I configure Feeds for manual sync I never know if it has synced, is syncing or just doesn’t care to sync.

And when I started feeds now it took a very loony time before it indicated how many unread items I had. The only visual feedback I got was the very small text at the bottom saying “syncing all items”. But I don’t know if it’s “thinking” or if it’s fetching data from the net.

I really like the idea and implementation about Feeds but after using it for a week and noticing how buggy and unreliable it is I’m soon forced to go back to Byline

I guess I could create a new Reader account, but I was just letting Mike know of features Doppler has over Feeds. Within Doppler you can update the feeds you want. You can select just one, all or a few. It is your choice, and you don’t have to create a new Reader account. I guess it should be easy to implement.

I also have the same bug others are reporting. When you mark a feed as read and return to the main page, all feeds are blank and you have to left the program and relaunch. I hope this can be solved on v1.3

GB