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Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Pause individual feeds" in Brightwurks

Nick Francis replied on October 28, 2009 06:19 to the question "Pause individual feeds" in Brightwurks:

Hey Jesse!

This is an interesting request we've heard from at least a few folks over the last couple of weeks. It's not on the roadmap for our next release, but we're definitely thinking about adding it in soon after. Luckily it would be pretty darn easy to implement. Keep an eye on our blog and/or twitter feed for any more announcements, and we'll try to post again here if the feature is added. Thanks!

Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Choosing time for receiving emails" in Brightwurks

Nick Francis replied on October 25, 2009 19:23 to the question "Choosing time for receiving emails" in Brightwurks:

Thanks so much for the question and the kind words about FMI!

We're hard at work on a new release of the service, and this feature is on the list. However, it may start as a "global" feature, where you select the time to receive all of your feed updates. We may end up taking it a step further so that you can customize the time on a per feed basis, but will have to listen to the feedback. Thanks so much!

Nick Francis replied on October 16, 2009 20:57 to the question "Emailing Subscription Forms Would be Awesome!" in Brightwurks:

Hey Cody,

We deployed what we believe is AT LEAST a short-term fix for the twitter feed issue, and we'll be watching closely moving forward. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on October 16, 2009 17:47 to the question "Emailing Subscription Forms Would be Awesome!" in Brightwurks:

Hey Cody!

Thanks for the question. I can't really speak to our email subscription forms and how they would work in an HTML email. Email clients have good reasons for mostly not supporting forms over email, but that's another conversation.

I believe the easiest way to have people signup for your feed through an email is using a link. For instance, it would look like this-

http://www.feedmyinbox.com/?feed=http...@domain.com

Click that link and you will see how it pre-fills the fields for you.

You can always pre-fill the feed url and email by using a hyperlink with that format. That would be supported across all email clients without a doubt.

I just tested the feed in question and got an error from our system. We have noticed a few issues with twitter feeds over the last few days. We'll get this fixed up for you and I will post a follow-up here when it's taken care of. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on October 15, 2009 19:24 to the idea "Ability to Create Your Own Sign-up Form" in Brightwurks:

Hey John,

Just an FYI, you can't submit multiple feeds in one form. You can only do one at a time right now. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on October 15, 2009 14:01 to the idea "Ability to Create Your Own Sign-up Form" in Brightwurks:

Hey John!

Yea that's no problem at all. Take a look at the source code on http://www.mobileawesomeness.com in the sidebar. That is an example of a signup form with multiple feeds available. It's pretty easy stuff.

Basically it goes from this:

<input type="hidden" value="(feed url here)" name="feed"/>

To this:

<select name="feed" id="feed">
<option value="(feed url here)">Feed Name</option>
<option value="(feed url here)">Feed Name</option>
</select>

This creates a dropdown where the user can select a feed they would like to subscribe to. Thanks!

Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Isn't there any way to specify the EXACT rss feed..... if I already KNOW the exact rss feed url....?" in Brightwurks

Nick Francis replied on October 13, 2009 04:47 to the question "Isn't there any way to specify the EXACT rss feed..... if I already KNOW the exact rss feed url....?" in Brightwurks:

Hey Bruce,

Feed My Inbox allows you to specify the exact feed URL and will work properly. We also accept the website URL for those that don't know the feed URL or how to find it. It works either way.

All of the feeds I tried on the page you pointed me to seem to be broken. I'm betting if you entered the feed URL from another site it would work great ... that site just seems to have broken feeds. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on October 09, 2009 20:48 to the question "Suggestion : customizing mail notification" in Brightwurks:

Hey Claude,

Thanks for the question. Both of those features are in fact on the schedule for our next release, which we're pushing to have ready before the end of the year. Thanks so much!

Nick Francis replied on October 01, 2009 18:49 to the question "Tweaking feed titles and duplicate deletion" in Brightwurks:

Sorry you are unable to view the screenshot, Claude. The error says "You have already subscribed to that feed" after I attempt to subscribe to a feed I am already subscribed to. That should be the error you receive as well. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on September 28, 2009 14:00 to the question "Tweaking feed titles and duplicate deletion" in Brightwurks:

Hey Claude,

That validation should already exist. If you attempt to subscribe to the exact same feed from a website, you should get a screen like this:



Is that not the case for you? If so, please provide the feed address and we can test it out. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on September 22, 2009 00:36 to the question "Tweaking feed titles and duplicate deletion" in Brightwurks:

Hey Claude,

Hopefully the fact that you will be able to edit the feed title in the next release will fix any issues you may encounter with duplicate feed names. Thanks!

Nick Francis replied on September 22, 2009 00:31 to the question "Is it possible to sort the feeds out in themes/topics?" in Brightwurks:

Hey Proboke,

You are correct ... we won't rule out having functionality like this in the future. However, they are not scheduled to be part of the next release. Thanks so much!

Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Tweaking feed titles and duplicate deletion" in Brightwurks

Nick Francis replied on September 21, 2009 04:14 to the question "Tweaking feed titles and duplicate deletion" in Brightwurks:

Hey Claude!

#1 is on the list for our next release.

As for #2, I would encourage you to sign up for a free account if you have not already. From your account dashboard, your feeds are ordered alphabetically and it should be quite easy to see any duplicates. Hopefully that's a quick fix for now. Thanks!

Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Is it possible to sort the feeds out in themes/topics?" in Brightwurks

Nick Francis replied on September 21, 2009 04:11 to the question "Is it possible to sort the feeds out in themes/topics?" in Brightwurks:

Hello there! Yes this is a great idea ... such a great one in fact that there are services available that can help. Check out this article on our blog to read about them in detail- http://www.brightwurks.com/blog/usefu....

A quick summary-

ChimpFeedr- This little tool allows you to take a bunch of feeds and combine them into one. (http://chimpfeedr.com/)

FeedRinse- This app helps you filter content from a feed so that you only get notified about the stuff you are interested in. (http://feedrinse.com/)

Yahoo! Pipes- By far the most advanced, Pipes lets you do tons of stuff, including what the 2 apps above do. (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/)

Use these apps to create your own custom feeds, then subscribe to them using FMI and that should help. Thanks!

Nick Francis set one of Nick Francis' replies as an official response to "Suggestion : Ordering feed items by ascending date" in Brightwurks