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  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan reported a problem in Soup on October 23, 2008 13:02:

    Gary V. Vaughan
    getsatisfaction.com feed items imported to soup stream 5 (five!) times
    I've added my getsatisfaction.com updates rss feed to soup.gary.vaughan.pe.

    When Lukas replied to my flickr rotation report on 10/22, it appeared 5 times in soup. I've had an occasional double import, which I've manually deleted when I notice... but never 5 times, so I'm leaving this one alone so you can investigate.

    Cheers,
    Gary
  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan replied on October 23, 2008 12:57 to the problem "imported flickr photos not rotated correctly" in Soup:

    Gary V. Vaughan
    Hi Lukas,

    Thanks for the reply!

    Maybe an option to import one of the correctly rotated, but already scaled down images (if such a thing exists in flickr) would be a good compromise? There doesn't seem to be much advantage in using up all your bandwidth on giant photos only to scale them down for display in soup... the compromise would be to have a smaller lightbox when the image is clicked on, or maybe just take the user directly to the large image at flickr.com?

    Cheers,
    Gary
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  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan reported a problem in Soup on October 16, 2008 07:52:

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    Interrupted system call on 6 feeds this morning
    6 of the feeds that have been happily updating since I set up a soup.io account have inexplicably turned red, proclaiming 'interrupted system call' in their tooltip.

    Last time this happened to 1 feed, and I simply removed and re-added it... but since I haven't touched anything this time, I'm pretty sure it's not a pilot error.

    Cheers,
    Gary
  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan reported a problem in Soup on October 14, 2008 09:24:

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    imported flickr photos not rotated correctly
    The most recent (as of 10/14/08) photo imported from my flickr feed is not rotated into the correct orientation. If I click the photo in soup, it takes me to flickr where it *is* in the correct orientation.

    My camera always uploads photos in landscape, so I have to rotate them manually in flickr if I want actually took the picture in portrait orientation.

    Slightly off topic... I've evaluated a handful of lifestream apps over the last week or two, and I'm happy to report that soup.io is much more functional and polished than all of the others I tried. I'm hoping that pointing out the few areas where soup.io is not the clear winner is helpful!

    Thanks in advance,
    Gary
  • idea

    Gary V. Vaughan shared an idea in Soup on October 13, 2008 09:32:

    Gary V. Vaughan
    Filter multi-author blog feeds by author?
    The reason I've had to use a yahoo pipe is to extract only my own posts from a multi-author blog, and to truncate the displayed text to just the description... I made a suggestion yesterday that it would be good to have some means to set the click destination and icon for the original feed instead of sending readers to the yahoo pipe page.

    However, I see that friendfeed.com has a much nicer way of handling multi-author blogs: if you tick the 'multi-author blog' check box, it asks for the name of an author, and only adds posts from that author to the feed. It would be great if soup.io had a similar feature. And this is probably a lot easier to code than adding icon and link overrides to each feed.

    To improve on the rather wonderful friendfeed filtering, I think a 'truncate to description' checkbox would allow me to get what I want (just summaries of my posts to the multi-author blogs I write for) without resorting to yahoo pipes at all!
  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan replied on October 13, 2008 03:19 to the problem "Many feeds stop updating in soup after a few hours" in Soup:

    Gary V. Vaughan
    Hi Lukas,

    Thanks for responding so quickly! :) And for fixing the facebook feed.

    It seems that the real issue was my misunderstanding of the update frequency, since twitter (usually) updates relatively quickly... and I saw a post on the soup blog about how everything updated much faster now.

    I suppose that I just got unlucky in that I was deleting and readding my feeds, just before each refresh cycle... so I saw the first refresh collect new feed entries, and then nothing for 2-3 hours, and became impatient because I thought the updates took a fraction of an hour.

    Actually I notice that one of my twitter posts from yesterday didn't get added, but I'll keep an eye on that and start a new thread if I spot a pattern.
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  • idea

    Gary V. Vaughan shared an idea in Soup on October 12, 2008 16:35:

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    option to show originating site for yahoo pipes feeds in soup
    I import a couple of my feeds through yahoo pipes, and would like to filter others through pipes too. Unfortunately the feed icon and the website readers are taken to in this case is always the yahoo pipe source :(

    I would really like some means of overriding the icon and feed destination link to show the originating site.
  • problem

    Gary V. Vaughan reported a problem in Soup on October 12, 2008 16:29:

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    Many feeds stop updating in soup after a few hours
    I added a report of this problem to someone elses post about almost the same problem, but didn't get any response over the last several days, so I thought I would start a new topic... hope that isn't too evil.

    The problem I'm having is that after adding 10 or 12 feeds to my soup (soup.gary.vaughan.pe at the moment), several of them stop updating after a few hours. If I delete the feed and associated entries and re-add them, sometimes they stick but others stop updating again after a few hours. I don't seem to be able to get all of my feeds working at once, and starting each day be deleting and re-adding half of my feeds is not fun :(

    To help you find the problem, I've left the non-updating feeds untouched for a day or two - you'll notice that facebook, twitter and one of my blog feeds (via yahoo pipes to filter out other authors) do not show the most recent posts, and yet others (flickr, weatherrss, picasa) still seem to be working.

    I love the UI and look of soup, but it's a great shame that it is so unreliable at the moment. If there's anything I can do to help (either in general if the problem is at your end, or something I need to do differently if this is a pilot error) please don't hesitate to get in touch.

    Many thanks,
    Gary
  • problem

    Gary Vaughan replied on October 08, 2008 16:57 to the problem "feed importer amnesia" in Soup:

    Gary Vaughan
    If I remove a feed that has stopped updating and then add it back in again, missing entries appear. If I make new posts in that feed reasonably soon they appear correctly in my soup... but after a few hours, updates stop appearing again.

    I have about a dozen feeds, and so far I've noticed this with twitter, facebook, youtube, weatherrss.com and a blog feed via yahoo pipes. I'd rather not have to spend half an hour every morning removing and recreating any feed that I've updated the previous day to get soup to pick it up. I'm still evaluating whether to promote it from:

    soup.gary.vaughan.pe

    to:

    gary.vaughan.pe

    (depending on how the evaluation goes, and whether it takes a while to fix the problem, my soup could be at either domain by then)
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