Posts in: System

• New item tags are shown properly in IE. (forum thread)
• https:// links open in a new window too. (forum thread)
• Up arrow in River of News scrolls to the top of an item if the item is more than 1 screen tall. (forum thread)
• Item tags box properly remembers your choice to hide/show. (forum thread)
• Removing item tags removes them from both browser cache and from the back-end data.

• Additional fix for visual response when marking all unread items read. (forum thread)

• Trying to tag with a space ” ” no longer creates a UI element. (forum thread)
• Spacebar (and a few other keyboard shortcuts) should only do something in the Home view. (forum thread)
• Tagging items hits the appropriate item regardless of timing. (forum thread)
• Marking all unread items as read works and clears the items from the list. (forum thread)

FeedLounge was offline today from approximately 5 PM PST to 9 PM PST due to the database server becoming non-responsive to write operations.

We brought down the database server as gently as we could under the circumstances, and had the problem cleared by 7 PM PST. Once the problem was cleared, we took the time to investigate all of the server logs in some depth to make sure there wasn’t an underlying hardware problem that would require us to move the main database to one of our backup machines.

Everything checked out fine, and the Queue was brought back online to begin catching up just after 8 PM PST. The FeedLounge web interface was brought back online around 9 PM PST.

This was the first database problem we’ve had since we moved to PostgreSQL and we’re working to make sure we can recover more quickly from this kind of problem in the future.

In my attempts yesterday to attempt to more fully comply with Postel’s Law¹, I inadvertently prevented updating of all gzip compressed feeds. This includes feeds from sources like FeedBurner, MSDN, even our personal feeds. I apologize for the inconvenience, and the feeds are now updating properly again. This ‘gzip outage’ lasted about 16 hours, before being reported by several people in the forums. (forum thread, forum thread) Item updates should be coming shortly.

1. Stripping bad characters from offending feeds [back]

• The “this item has no content” message is properly shown in the River of News (forum thread)
• New users have the “open links in new windows” preference set properly.
• Empty ‘tags’ in OPML import no longer prevent a user from logging in.

• ‘q’ key works for all users. (forum thread)
• Suppress an error alert. (forum thread)
• Cancel works properly in Unsubscribe popup. (forum thread)
• Auto-clear exception messages.

• Feed Titles with carriage returns no longer prevent ‘Lounging. (forum thread)

• Colored tags work properly in IE. (forum thread)
• Newly created feed tags can be selected in IE. (forum thread)

• Don’t be so agressive about changing the feed check interval just because of one error. Only increase the interval 10% at a time maximum. Interval is allowed to decrease as fast as needed. (forum thread)
• Added index to make reading by tag faster.