Author Archives: Edwin Khodabakchian

Incident report on Cloudflare parser bug

Cloudflare reported last night a bug in their service which could have leaked information from the services using their edge cache servers.

Feedly uses Cloudflare as a security shield which increases the reliability and performance of the Feedly web application. As such, Cloudflare informed us it is possible that some of the Feedly Web request performed between Feb 13 and Feb 18 might have been impacted by the information leak.

Despite the 1 in 3,300,000 chances of being impacted, we recommend to be extra cautious and take the following actions:

1/ If you are using the Feedly login/password, change your password. Go to the Logins page and change your password. Note: if you are using a third-party login option like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, you are NOT impacted and do not need to change your password [1].

2/ Logout and log back in. On Feedly Web, click on the face bubble icon (at the top right of the screen), select the logout option and then log back in. This will invalidate your old session/cookies and create a brand new one.

Our engineering team has a follow up call with the Cloudflare team later this afternoon and we will update this post if we learn anything that changes these recommendations.

We want to thank the Cloudflare team for how well they handled this situation. It is how you manage exceptions that defines your brand, and Cloudflare did really well despite what might have been a very stressful moment for them. We look forward to continuing to work with them to make Feedly safer and more reliable.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Seb, David, and Edwin

[1] The third party login authentication is performed via OAuth. You login directly with those 3rd party sites and Feedly only gets an authentication token. One of the benefits of OAuth is that Feedly or Cloudflare never get to see your third party passwords.

 

Incident report on Cloudflare parser bug

Cloudflare reported last night a bug in their service which could have leaked information from the services using their edge cache servers.

Feedly uses Cloudflare as a security shield which increases the reliability and performance of the Feedly web application. As such, Cloudflare informed us it is possible that some of the Feedly Web request performed between Feb 13 and Feb 18 might have been impacted by the information leak.

Despite the 1 in 3,300,000 chances of being impacted, we recommend to be extra cautious and take the following actions:

1/ If you are using the Feedly login/password, change your password. Go to the Logins page and change your password. Note: if you are using a third-party login option like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, you are NOT impacted and do not need to change your password [1].

2/ Logout and log back in. On Feedly Web, click on the face bubble icon (at the top right of the screen), select the logout option and then log back in. This will invalidate your old session/cookies and create a brand new one.

Our engineering team has a follow up call with the Cloudflare team later this afternoon and we will update this post if we learn anything that changes these recommendations.

We want to thank the Cloudflare team for how well they handled this situation. It is how you manage exceptions that defines your brand, and Cloudflare did really well despite what might have been a very stressful moment for them. We look forward to continuing to work with them to make Feedly safer and more reliable.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Seb, David, and Edwin

[1] The third party login authentication is performed via OAuth. You login directly with those 3rd party sites and Feedly only gets an authentication token. One of the benefits of OAuth is that Feedly or Cloudflare never get to see your third party passwords.

 

Become feedly’s wordsmith

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Hello! In the next 3 months, we will be announcing a major new offering and rolling out several partnership programs. We are looking for a prolific and talented content creator to write and produce various types of content and blog regularly, to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness. This role requires a high level of creativity, attention to detail, and passion for storytelling.

Why feedly?

  • We serve an amazing community of 10 millions smart / growth mindset individuals who are passionate about reading and learning and rely on feedly to connect to the content that matters to them.
  • In a world where the amount of content is exploding and trends are accelerating, connecting millions of people to the right pieces of content is an interesting and challenging mission / journey.
  • We are a small team of passionate engineers, designers, product managers and customers success heroes, where everyone has a voice and an impact.
  • We take care of our team. We provide competitive salaries, very generous stock option packages, and a full slate of benefits including health coverage and pre-tax commuter benefits. We also believe in work/life balance: we are in this for the long term.

You are:

  • Prolific and talented wordsmith / storyteller
  • Creative / energetic / driven
  • Social media savvy
  • Curious and passionate about learning new things
  • Care about doing what’s right for users

During the first year, you will:

  • Help define feedly’s narrative and voice
  • Work closely with the feedly product and management team to identify pieces of content that can help serve the community
  • Produce regularly various types of content (blog posts, white papers, infographics, presentations, etc.) to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness
  • Develop a personal brand and lay down the foundation for a vibrant feedly community

Interested?

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please apply by sharing some information about yourself using this form.

We look forward to reviewing your application and learn more about you!

-Edwin / feedly CEO

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Become feedly’s wordsmith

the_storyteller___threadless_by_ellygeh-d4bzvgs

Hello! In the next 3 months, we will be announcing a major new offering and rolling out several partnership programs. We are looking for a prolific and talented content creator to write and produce various types of content and blog regularly, to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness. This role requires a high level of creativity, attention to detail, and passion for storytelling.

Why feedly?

  • We serve an amazing community of 10 millions smart / growth mindset individuals who are passionate about reading and learning and rely on feedly to connect to the content that matters to them.
  • In a world where the amount of content is exploding and trends are accelerating, connecting millions of people to the right pieces of content is an interesting and challenging mission / journey.
  • We are a small team of passionate engineers, designers, product managers and customers success heroes, where everyone has a voice and an impact.
  • We take care of our team. We provide competitive salaries, very generous stock option packages, and a full slate of benefits including health coverage and pre-tax commuter benefits. We also believe in work/life balance: we are in this for the long term.

You are:

  • Prolific and talented wordsmith / storyteller
  • Creative / energetic / driven
  • Social media savvy
  • Curious and passionate about learning new things
  • Care about doing what’s right for users

During the first year, you will:

  • Help define feedly’s narrative and voice
  • Work closely with the feedly product and management team to identify pieces of content that can help serve the community
  • Produce regularly various types of content (blog posts, white papers, infographics, presentations, etc.) to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness
  • Develop a personal brand and lay down the foundation for a vibrant feedly community

Interested?

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please apply by sharing some information about yourself using this form.

We look forward to reviewing your application and learn more about you!

-Edwin / feedly CEO

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New feedly Pro with notes and highlights

Many of you rely on feedly to discover the content that matters to you – the gems that help accelerate your research, marketing and sales. We just rolled out a new version of feedly Pro which lets you do more with your content.

Notes and Highlights

Reading shapes what you know, who you are, and how you think. Reading is your silent teacher and mentor. With the new highlights feature, you can easily save the magic moments when you connect to new ideas – and come back to them more easily.

Notes and highlights are available on the Web today and will be rolling out next week on iOS and Android.

If you are not interested in using the new notes feature and would like to save the space at the top of your stories, there is a preference knob in your preferences page to turn this feature off.

Better WordPress Integration

If part of your workflow is saving excerpts of the best stories you discover in your feedly to one of your WordPress blogs, the new feedly Pro will save you a lot of time.

Simply click on the WordPress icon in the share toolbar and feedly will launch the WordPress PressIt window with the story you are reading. Quickly pick a picture, a category, or a tag, add your point of view and click on publish!

You can also personalize the excerpt that gets associated with the story by selecting a snippet of text before clicking on the WordPress icon.

WordPress is continuously improving their PressIt feature so we highly recommend upgrading to WordPress 4 if you want to benefit from the latest improvements.

IFTTT and Zapier

The new feedly Pro also includes a better integration with IFTTT and Zapier. This new version integrates with those platforms in real-time. For example, as soon as a story is saved to one of your personal knowledge boards (the new name for tags), all the recipes and zaps which are bound to that event are fired in real-time. We also improved the logic for image selection for recipes which require an image.

Faster Experience

We are working continuously behind the scenes to optimize feedly and add the hardware needed to keep feedly fast and boost your productivity. Here is a blog post about the performance optimizations we are currently working on.

Thank You!

Thank you for your backing: we are very grateful to be funded by our customers and to control our destiny.

 

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