Alpha 5 Update
Finally! We’re live with our alpha 5 release.
Some new features of note:
- A “River of News” view
- Atom 1.0 support
- Auto-discovery of feeds (can enter http://feedlounge.com/blog/ instead of http://feedlounge.com/blog/feed/)
- Revamped tagging interface for easier addition and removal of tags
- Revamped item header display (includes author information if available)
- Enclosures are shown as download links in the item content area
- Links to subscribe to comment feeds for items that offer them
- Creation of the feeds list on the server - speeds up initial load
- A new read/unread icon
- Ability to edit feed tags
- Ability to delete tags in the feeds list
- Ability to set the color of a tag
- Back end optimizations
- The page title now prepends “Loading…” when busy, so you can be in another tab and see when it is done loading
Also, I really need to update the screenshots here at some point.
Ah, I don’t know why I read this blog, it just teases me with what I cannot have.
Do show us some new screenshots, that would be nice.
Awesome release. The speed increase is amazing. Before, when I’d click on an item, there would be a slight delay before the item loaded in the reading panel. Now it’s instant.
Excellent speed boost.
I also dig the River of News view.
FL Alpha 5
The FeedLounge guys released alpha 5, which felt fast to me at home yesterday. It’s positively snappy, though, here on my work machine, which is fast enough to see actual results. Given the speed improvements and the increased metadata mined o…
…is my time for alpha-testing??? send me an invite!!!
*YAWN*
I know you all have jobs and stuff, but I feel you announced your project far too early because these ‘alpha’ phases have been going on for so long, I know it will benefit us all in the end, but I think many people who were interested in the beginning have since lost interest and found alternative solutions to their rss needs - with that in mind you are facing a had time ahead because when you launch publicly you are going to have to have made really major progress to make it seem worthwhile - I better approach I feel would have been to get a simple working service out the door in the beginning and to have actively developed it whereby keeping your users happy and interested along the way with the new features. If your service will be free free when you finally make it available then I guess there is no argument, but generating bad feeling wont help you sell your service, and your service is becoming less unique and interesting by the month. However I still think you’ll still make a success of it, but I think you could have handled it all better and made a bigger success of it.
Yeh, I’m getting pretty disheartened by this project now. Jon B has summed it up perfectly. This was/IS the solution I’m looking for in an RSS aggregator. Desktop-style use based on the web so I can use it at home, work and where ever I might be and be totally synced-up.
Alas, it seems it won’t be available any time soon. Everytime I think online RSS I check this site to see if it’s been released to no-avail. Eventually I’m gonna forget about it, albiet non-intentially, because it’s never available to me.
Lucky beta-beta-alpha-beta-whatever testers.
The State of FeedLounge
It’s been 180 days since we announced the initial alpha release of FeedLounge.
When we first announced the alpha release we had been coding furiously on the project for several months, and expected to be going into beta within a month - maybe t…