Open web pages in external browser

A lot of users have been asking us to open web pages in the external browser instead of inside feedly so we spent some time and implemented this feature as part of the 25.0.4 update we just pushed to the beta channel (note: there is a settings option called “open external browser” to disable this feature if you prefer to open web pages in feedly.

New fonts and font sizes

As part of version 25.0.4, we also focused on improving readability of articles by offering users a new set of fonts and font sizes.

Different people like different fonts so we are offering a set of settings to let you fully control the reading experience.

Happy eyes, happy reading. One of our goals for 2015 is to continuously improve the reading experience and make feedly the reference when it comes to reading web content so if you have suggestions on how to improve legibility or productivity please let us know.

25.0.4 is currently in beta. If everything goes well, it should be promoted to the main channel on Monday or Tuesday.

Update Dec 17th: The result from the beta is that this build dramatically reduces the number of crashes so we just promoted 25.0.4 to the main channel.

/Edwin, Seb and Michal

We just pushed out an update which improves the readability of articles by combining a new grid and a new set of fonts. Here is a screenshot:

We added preference knobs to empower you to change the font family and font sizes to your liking:

Happy eyes! Happy reading!

/Edwin and Arthur

We just pushed out a new release of feedly for Android. Here is the change log:

• Higher resolution images
• Fewer crashes and freezes
• New settings theme (Holo Light and Material Light)
• New twitter sharing (retirement of the feedly URL shortening)

Download it now (free)

Happy reading!

/Edwin, Seb, Michal

12:21 AM Pacific Time
We had to take feedly offline to upgrade part of the infrastructure. We should be back up within 15 minutes. We will live update this blog post as the maintenance progresses. Sorry for the inconvenience.

12:27 AM Pacific Time.
The maintenance is complete. The service should be back online.

/Seb

The feedly app allows you to login to your feedly using a Google, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote or Microsoft login. If you land into a feedly and do not see your feeds and collections, it is likely that you used a different login. The solution to this is to log out and log back in using your initial feedly login. Here are some tips to help you do this:

Tip #1: Who I am logged in as?
At the bottom of the left selector, you will find information about who you are currently logged in as. Please make sure that the email/id and service you are currently logged in as is the same as the email/service you used to sign up initially to feedly.

Tip #2: “I don’t remember using a social login!”
If you are a long time feedly user and do not remember which login you used to create your feedly account, you most likely used the Google login – we only supported Google at inception. If you migrated during the retirement of Google Reader, try to use the same Google email as you used for Google reader.

Tip #3: Handling multiple Google logins
Google has a feature – annoying bug – where it will try to automatically log you to the account you use on Google.com. If you use a different Google login for feedly and for google.com or use multiple google.com logins, please refer to supporting multiple Google logins blog post for more information on how to work around this problem.

Tip #4: Attaching multiple logins to the same feedly account
We are working on a new feature which will allow you to attach multiple logins to the same feedly account. For more information, please refer to http://feedly.com/#logins

Tip #5: Erasing your feedly account
The feedly erase page allows you to completely delete your feedly account and all your personal information from the feedly system. Please keep in mind that this operation can not be undone.

If you tried all these steps and are not able to login to your feedly or are not seeing your feed list after logging it, please contact Pro support if you are a pro user or ask a question on the Open feedly community.

Happy reading

/@edwk

Note: We know that there is a demand from users to be able to connect to feedly using a feedly specific login. The multiple logins feature is a step in that direction. Once that feature is in production, we will start working on a feedly specific login and allow users to attach a feedly login to their existing account.

For some users, the android app is hanging on the launch screen. We are investigating and trying to understand what might be causing this issue. We will update this blog post every hour with information about the investigation. Sorry for the inconvenience.

17:44pm San Francisco time. Thanks to Artem, we were able to find the cause of the issue. We need 4 hours to fix the issue and push a v24.3 update out to the Play Store. Next post as soon as v24.3 is out to the Play Store.

21:06pm San Francisco time. We were able to fix the issue. The fix is part of the 24.3.0 update we just pushed to the Google Play Store. It should be available for download within 30 minutes. Please upgrade to 24.3.0 when it is available. Happy reading!

/Edwin

As part of the feedly web 24 and mobile 24.2 updates, we retired the feedly URL shortener. It felt like the right thing to do for users and makes us a better citizen of the Web.

It is the right thing to do for users, because people who receive those links in emails, SMSs and social media posts will be able to tell by looking at the URL where it leads and who created the content. It will also shave a few hundred milliseconds from the experience of loading the links (one fewer redirect).

By sharing the canonical URL, we also allow other apps and search engines to leverage metadata about the content being shared and offer a better, richer experience. We also empower users to more effectively promote their favorite voices.

All the existing links will continue to perform an HTTP redirect to make sure that no links are broken.

There would be no feedly without the power and openness of the Web. We are going to be more careful going forward to respect and re-enforce what makes the Web the incredible medium it is.

Happy reading.

/@edwk