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FIXED & APPROVED – Bug in feedly 9.0 for Firefox

Feedly 9.0 for firefox has a bug where it only shows one or two articles for the feeds which do not include images. We are very sorry about this. We are able to reproduce the problem and are working on a fix. We hope to be able to submit the fix to Mozilla later this afternoon. More information in 2-3 hours.

Update 01/16: Special thanks to the Mozilla team for the review. Feedly 9.1 is now available for download https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/

Update 01/15: We have been able to FIX this problem. Feedly 9.1 has been submitted to Mozilla for review. You can download it here:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/versions/

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Feedly 9.0 – Polishing and Bug Fixes

We spent the last 8 weeks finding and polishing rough edges in feedly for chrome/firefix/safari. We are excited to push out a new version of feedly desktop (aka Feedly 9.0).

It …fixes the sporadic loading issue in firefox, …adds support for multiple google login, …fixes the integration with Facebook, …offers richer article previews and …evolves towards a more minimalistic experience (It might take a couple of days to get used to some of the new fonts).

We also added a new explore page to make it easier for you to find and follow new sources:

In order to improve the scroll speed, we had to evolve the theme effort. Some of the more sophisticated themes are no longer available (at least temporarily). Sorry about that. You should expect to see more work in that direction in feedly 10/11 – aligned with some of the optimizations the Chrome team is performing on Windows.

Available for Chrome and Safari now.
http://www.feedly.com/index.html

Being reviewed by Mozilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/feedly/versions

Looking forward to your feedback.

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Feedly 8.1 – 10 Bug Fixes

We just pushed out feedly 8.1. It fixes some of the bugs/regressions reported over the last 24 hours (thanks for the feedback!).

Change log:

  1. FIXED – Mark as read counter was sometimes clipped.
  2. FIXED – Clicking on the unread count was no longer marking sources as read.
  3. FIXED – Move the “Back To Top” icon above the” Jump To Next” icon.
  4. FIXED – The source title and the author name sometimes push the mark as read link out.
  5. FIXED – There is no way to mark an article as read in the new card view.
  6. FIXED – Empty tag page resulted in a session expired loop.
  7. FIXED – Loading a category or feed page through a link sometimes resulted on an empty page.
  8. FIXED – The Google+ option of feedly mini does not always work.
  9. FIXED – Some of the blogs like LogoPond no longer render correctly in the mosaic view.
  10. FIXED – Sometimes “Jump to Next” transitions from one of my sources to an essential source.

Please let us know by posting a comment if you run into any other high priority issue. We are happy to do another patch if needed.

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Feedly 8: Tagging, New Views, Infinite Scrolling and more…

We are rolling out today a new edition of feedly. Feedly 8 is centered around two new features and two new views.

Feedly 8.0 is available for Chrome and Safari now. It is being reviewed by the mozilla team and should be available for Firefox in a couple of weeks.

Feature #1: Tagging

You can now collect articles by tagging them. Think of tags as a more permanent/topical save for later. In version 8.0, collections are private/personal. In version 9.0, we will make it easy for you to selectively publish and share your collections.

Feature #2: Infinite scrolling

All the list pages now support infinite scrolling and will automatically load more content as you reach the end of a page. The result is a simple and faster way to browse through your favorite content.

View #1: The New Cards View

As part of feedly 8, we are rolling out a new view called “Cards”. You can apply it to the collection of articles you have tagged, to a section or a specific feed. It it optimized for great visuals.

To assign the cards view to a page, click on the view icon on the top right of the page and select the Cards option:

View #2: Denser and more efficient title view

In feedly 8, we have redesigned the “Titles” view with crunchers in mind. The entire with of the page is dedicated to content, tools hover in and you can easily navigate through the content using keyboard shortcuts. Combine that with the new infinite scrolling and you have a feed crunching machine.

Note: if you want to see the list of the sources in the latest page, simply choose the old titles view from the view options.

Here is a quick summary of the refined keyboard shortcuts supported by feedly in version 8.0.

Feedly 8.0 is available for Chrome and Safari now. It is being reviewed by the mozilla team and should be available for Firefox in a couple of weeks.

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. Special thanks to Sarah for the feedback she provided during the design of the new Titles view.

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Creativity

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” – Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995

(via Brain Pickings)

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Feedly 6.2 for Chrome and Safari

Feedly 6.2 for Chrome and Safari are out. It focuses on polishing the navigation: …1) collapsable navigation bar in narrow mode, …2) decoupling of opening and selecting a category, …3) featured sources are back and …4) new jump to next arrow. Please let us know if you run into any regressions.

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Feedly 6.1 – Enhanced Narrow Design and Lots of Bug Fixes

Thank you for all the feedback regarding what you liked and disliked about the feedly 6 release. We listened carefully. We are pushing out today a 6.1 patch update which fixes most of the bugs and adjusts a few design decisions. You can download 6.1 for Chrome, Firefox and Safari from our homepage.

The main design change you will notice is that the selector now collapses in “narrow” mode to allow more room for the content. The selector will automatically appear as you hover on the bar. We also did some white space optimization for text only feeds.

[[Update: A few people ask how the narrow mode is activated. It actually activates automatically when the width of the browser window < 1200px]]

Here is a change log of some of the other rough edges which have been polished as part of the 6.1 update:

  • DONE – add back hide and close
  • DONE – featured should stay in context…people do not like it going away.
  • DONE – narrower margin ( 68px instead of 222px) on text only sources like Daring Fireball. This should help reduce some of the complaints around too much white space for text only feeds.
  • DONE – I want to be able to discard article I do not like…from the list view (people do not know about the fav icon. or people think that it is too small).
  • DONE – I am not able to close the article mid-way anymore. – Clicking on the white padding around the article will close it.
  • DONE – Have a big visit website bottom at the end of the article on desktop (similar to mobile).
  • DONE – Change “Change theme” icon
  • DONE – Add hide close and keep as read buttons at the bottom of the entry viewer (similar to the top).
  • DONE – Narrow mode: because there is the rocket I want to click on it, but when I do the nav bar has expanded, the area is no more clickable > it could be > expand the “my feedly” button clickable area
  • FIXED – Oldest first does not work.
  • DONE – refresh button at the bottom
  • FIXED – mark as read does not work – latest do not mark as read
  • FIXED – verify that the keyboard navigation continues to work…some complained about that.
  • FIXED – “The latest section on each page doesn’t get marked as read with all the rest of the articles. In feedly 5 you were reaching the bottom of the page, clicked mark as read , then refreshed the page, and you were done. Now I have to mark as read, press go back to top, start hovering to see the button, mark the latest as read, then refresh the page with the button from the top. Why add all the extra steps for a thing that was so simple?”
  • FIXED – lifehacker does not have images.
  • FIXED – Daily Show Embedding does not work.
  • FIXED – I don’t know if that is us or the source itself but today, the autor’s name also contains the article. source: UXmag
  • DONE – Safari post installation experience is confusing. a) we should interecept http://www.feedly.com once the extension is installed and b) we should look and see if there is a safari API for automatically open feedly post installation
  • DONE – Post login, we should we should automatically transition from essentials to my if there are unread articles.
  • FIXED – j/k is slower because of the fade animations we use when in-lining articles. [removed fade animation when user is using keyboard navigation]
  • DONE – Firefox open sidebar should not show the scrollbar.
  • FIXED – BUG – Every time I open Feedly, I keep having to change the Read Links color in my preferences. I want it to be red, but it keeps changing it back to the default grey, even though I changed it to red in the preferences. What’s going on?
  • FIXED – Click on “add website once” > open the search area, click on it once again > closes the search area

We are going to continue to iterate quickly over the next 4 weeks so if you have other suggestions or run into a bug, please post a comment and we will look into it.

Thank you and have a great week end.

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