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Mihai Parparita replied on November 02, 2009 14:34 to the idea "Popular Items : Show only unread articles" in Google Reader:

It's possible that you're seeing Lifehacker articles from two different feed URLs, it seems to be available at both of these:

http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml
http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full

You can check which URL you're subscribed under by selecting the subscription and using the "show details" link in the upper right. You can do the same with an item from them "Popular items" view by clicking on the source title ("Lifehacker" in this case) and using the details link there.

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 30, 2009 12:42 to the idea "Popular Items : Show only unread articles" in Google Reader:

Have you tried using the "Show: new items - all items" toggling links at the top? They will let you hide items you've already read. However, this will only work for actual duplicates, if it's merely similar items (e.g. they contain the same image) then they'll still show up again. For reasons like this, we're still working on improving the quality of the popular items view.

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Mihai Parparita marked one of strawbeard's replies in Google Reader as useful. strawbeard replied to the question "Can we hide or remove the new Explore section?". Mihai Parparita and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.
Mihai Parparita replied on October 27, 2009 13:48 to the idea "Refresh the feeds more often than once every hour." in Google Reader:

Unfortunately with the millions of feeds that Reader users subscribe to, it's not really feasible for us to refresh all feeds more often. However, we are looking into using technologies such as PubSubHubbub to get notifications of updates faster than a once-an-hour refresh. In the meantime, if there's a feed you suspect has new content, you can select it and use the "Refresh" button to force it to be crawled if it hasn't been recently.

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 27, 2009 13:45 to the problem "Please don't neglect mobile." in Google Reader:

The Reader team is enamored enough with their Android-based phones and iPhones that this will get the attention it needs, to make ourselves happier if nothing else :)

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 27, 2009 13:39 to the question "wrong number of unread items" in Google Reader:

Do you mind giving us a few more details about the problem? Is it always the same feeds or people that have this problem, or is it different ones every time? Does the problem go away eventually (either with a refresh or after a few hours) or does it persist for days?

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 27, 2009 13:37 to the question "the "note in reader" bookmarklet doesnt work well in Opera" in Google Reader:

Unfortunately Opera is not an officially supported browser for Reader. We try to do our best to make sure that basic functionality works, but we don't always have time to verify every feature. We'll look into this particular problem, but we can't promise when a fix will happen.

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 27, 2009 13:35 to the problem "New Reader home page and recommendations problem in Safari" in Google Reader:

We're not aware of any issues Reader with Safari. One thing to keep in mind is that the "Explore" functionality is currently English-only. Are you using Reader in the same language in both Firefox and Safari?

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 23, 2009 03:07 to the problem "Shared item web page feed includes non-shared items" in Google Reader:

It looks like you somehow ended up with the feed for you "All items" view. Only you have access to that, no one else can see its contents.

When I click on the "Atom feed" link on your shared items page, I get taken to http://www.google.com/reader/public/a... (note that it ends with "broadcast," while the one you gave ends with "reading-list"), which should be just be showing your shared items.

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Mihai Parparita replied on October 18, 2009 17:27 to the idea "Show when an RSS feed points to a dead URL." in Google Reader:

Have you tried the "Inactive" tab on our Trends page (http://www.google.com/reader/view/#tr...). It shows you feeds which haven't updated in a while, which would let you spot such dead URLs.

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Mihai Parparita replied on September 23, 2009 17:28 to the problem "My Account is Being Logged Out of Google Reader" in Google Reader:

It's possible you are hitting a blog post that contains an embedded image or document that's tied to another account (for example, the Google Public Sector blog had an embedded presentation with this problem a few days ago). Does this happen after a few minutes even if you stay on the "Home" view and don't view any subscriptions?

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A comment on the problem "People added to groups to allow commenting in Google Reader, do not always remain in groups..." in Google Reader:

We've pushed out a fix so that editing of both email-only contacts and profile URL-only contacts should work (and in general should lead to fewer duplicate contacts). Unfortunately this won't fix edits previously made, but it will ensure that all future edits stick. – Mihai Parparita, on September 16, 2009 13:17
Mihai Parparita replied on September 12, 2009 01:19 to the problem ""Oops...an error occurred" on iPhone" in Google Reader:

The carrier is proxying requests from Reader and is altering them in some way that's breaking us. Carriers generally do this when they try to aggressively (re)compress content, but I'm not familiar with the specifics in this case.

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Mihai Parparita replied on September 11, 2009 13:21 to the problem ""Oops...an error occurred" on iPhone" in Google Reader:

After following up privately with users that reported this problem, it appeared to be a problem caused by Telstra (and possibly other mobile carriers), not a Reader-specific issue.

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Mihai Parparita replied on September 10, 2009 21:25 to the problem "People added to groups to allow commenting in Google Reader, do not always remain in groups..." in Google Reader:

Thanks everyone for the additional details, we're making progress on fixing this problem for good.

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A comment on the problem "GReader comments and sharing errors" in Google Reader:

We've pushed a follow-up fix for your bug, please let us know if your friends list loads now. – Mihai Parparita, on September 09, 2009 14:08
A comment on the problem "GReader comments and sharing errors" in Google Reader:

Hi voidfiles,

Your problem isn't quite the same (it's caused by following more people than we expected). We expect to have a workaround for yours sometime today. – Mihai Parparita, on September 08, 2009 16:24

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