* I want a listing of all my unread articles to browse... I have >600 feeds and the list of blogs is long at just 64
* All NYTimes blogs seem broken? Freakonomics is super slow. An important feature of Google Reader is its aggressive pre-loading. When I click a headline, the feedback is instant. This keeps me reading (probably more than I should. Which is good for you, the feed reader seller.)
* On APOD, I just get a blinking cursor in the bottom window, and "original" mode works but "feed" and "story" don't seem to?
I really like your idea and will probably purchase it if it starts working. I'd also be happy to be a beta tester/constructive criticism provider/example of a heavy feed reader user.
Wow, thanks for the great bugs. So, the site isn't having any issues that it wasn't already having (bugs, the usual). What you're seeing is oddities in how the iframe is working. It's not a perfect process and I'm trying to figure out better ways to encapsulate the original site.
As for speed, I watch my logs like a hawk and have graphs for how each feed performs. No feed should take more than 500ms to load (and only a very very tiny percentage have taken more, based on my graphs from today. And nothing took more than 1.5s). Speed is a super high priority for me. Moreso than many features. Preloading is hard to do. I have no idea what you want to click on.
The iframe buster buster code works about 95% of the time. It should catch most NYTimes sites and switch you automatically to the Feed view. It doesn't always work.
Fixes for these bugs will be coming in the next few weeks as I sit down and identify the culprits.
You should still go premium, even if there are a few bugs still lurking. Check the features board. I have updates regularly and have for months. It's a long road ahead and things only get better from here.
On the front page, there's no big "go premium!" button. When I went to the site to subscribe, I said "oh, um, where do I do that again?" and the answer was that I click on "choose your 64", which then gives me the option to subscribe.
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* FiveThirtyEight breaks your frames.
* I want a listing of all my unread articles to browse... I have >600 feeds and the list of blogs is long at just 64
* All NYTimes blogs seem broken? Freakonomics is super slow. An important feature of Google Reader is its aggressive pre-loading. When I click a headline, the feedback is instant. This keeps me reading (probably more than I should. Which is good for you, the feed reader seller.)
* On APOD, I just get a blinking cursor in the bottom window, and "original" mode works but "feed" and "story" don't seem to?
At this point, I'm just going to chalk it up to your site having issues, and check back again? http://img.skitch.com/20101026-tte8pqeksjx94syhuh7cbkt418.jp...
I really like your idea and will probably purchase it if it starts working. I'd also be happy to be a beta tester/constructive criticism provider/example of a heavy feed reader user.
Wow, thanks for the great bugs. So, the site isn't having any issues that it wasn't already having (bugs, the usual). What you're seeing is oddities in how the iframe is working. It's not a perfect process and I'm trying to figure out better ways to encapsulate the original site.
As for speed, I watch my logs like a hawk and have graphs for how each feed performs. No feed should take more than 500ms to load (and only a very very tiny percentage have taken more, based on my graphs from today. And nothing took more than 1.5s). Speed is a super high priority for me. Moreso than many features. Preloading is hard to do. I have no idea what you want to click on.
The iframe buster buster code works about 95% of the time. It should catch most NYTimes sites and switch you automatically to the Feed view. It doesn't always work.
Fixes for these bugs will be coming in the next few weeks as I sit down and identify the culprits.
You should still go premium, even if there are a few bugs still lurking. Check the features board. I have updates regularly and have for months. It's a long road ahead and things only get better from here.
Totally unrelated:
On the front page, there's no big "go premium!" button. When I went to the site to subscribe, I said "oh, um, where do I do that again?" and the answer was that I click on "choose your 64", which then gives me the option to subscribe.
It should be a big honking button!