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Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 23, 2008 18:20:

Unread articles/count problems return?

I read all the articles in a feed page. On returning to the category page from whence I came, I noticed it showed 2 unread articles remaining in the feed count. I went back to the article page to check, and refreshed to see if there were indeed new articles. Instead of new articles, all the articles I had just read were back showing as unread on the feed page and the article count. I'm not sure if any of the articles were actually new, but if so it was at most one as I recognized the second article on the list.

I then clicked the article count to mark all as read. The screen shot below shows the current feed page views with the obvious problem with unread count off and read articles being shown.

1.2.115 (build 2227)
feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/instapundit/main

Have a Merry Christmas (or other holiday of your choice) with this return visit from the Ghost of Bugs Past.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 23, 2008 17:10:

Article content breaks Cover

The following article's content messes up the cover page as shown.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Patent...

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 22, 2008 21:12:

F5 doesn't refresh content

Title pretty much says it all. I have to click the page's refresh button to get rid of articles that have been read, etc. The browser refresh doesn't do it. I've tried this on home, cover, category, and feed pages with the same lack of effect.

1.2.115 (build 2227)

Phil replied on December 17, 2008 21:40 to the problem "Cover page layout" in Feedly:

Fixed in 1.2.113. Thanks!

Phil replied on December 17, 2008 17:33 to the problem "Cover page layout" in Feedly:

Bump. Any progress on the reported problem with the cover page layout?

Thanks.

Phil replied on December 09, 2008 05:27 to the question "Impulse, Amazon?" in Feedly:

My own view is that I don't mind ads, but find them less intrusive in a sidebar.

I wonder if there aren't more creative opportunities along the lines of providing amazon purchase links for products related to the specific articles or feeds being read. Also I wouldn't mind ads that were more related to me, e.g., if feedly knows my location, serving up ads keyed to my city.

Some people are willing to pay for ad-free versions, but most (myself included) prefer to put up with ads.

Phil replied on December 09, 2008 00:29 to the problem "Feed page problem in 1.2.102" in Feedly:

Were you able to reproduce this one Edwin?

Phil replied on December 08, 2008 20:12 to the problem "Error editing subscriptions" in Feedly:

Just got the update. Seems to be fixed with 1.2.1.02. Btw, I still consistently have the cover display format problem I reported elsewhere.

Phil replied on December 05, 2008 23:14 to the problem "Cover page content bug after recategorizing" in Feedly:

Thanks. Looking forward to it. Have a good weekend yourself.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 05, 2008 22:02:

Cover page content bug after recategorizing

I moved a feed out of a category but articles from that feed still appear on the cover page under the old category. They don't appear in the sources list of the old category on the cover page. Respective category pages appear as they should. Reloading and restarting feedly had no effect. I suppose that if I restart the browser the issue might be sorted out (haven't tried yet).

See attached screenshot in case my description is unclear. The feed I recategorized is Instapundit.

Phil replied on December 05, 2008 18:51 to the problem "Cover page layout" in Feedly:

I have 52 sources.

I wouldn't object to such a list, but I would prefer the most relevant category to be on top. If I had fewer feeds that might not matter to me.

However, given the number of feeds I have and my reading habits, I am fine with the current behavior. I can already quickly navigate to a number of different pages if I want to see the a different, or complete, list of feeds with articles.

I think some people might like it though, particularly those with few high volume feeds or who want to know as soon as articles are available across any of their feeds. I don't need to have that information always at hand for all my feeds.

There are some low-volume feeds for which I would appreciate knowing as soon as a new article is available, but I think an alternative approach to informing the reader would be better for those (e.g., knob for selecting "breaking news" feeds for which new articles show up in a "hot" sidebar panel or a running breaking news headline ticker).

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 05, 2008 17:31:

Cover page layout

The new layout on the cover page is not quite perfected yet. It seems that feedly might have a problem with its image layout logic.

I don't think layout issues illustrated in the image below need any explanation, but I would note that I find it odd that categories where the magazine view has an image in the top spot sometimes don't have an image on the cover page. Isn't the logic the same?

Phil replied on December 04, 2008 17:21 to the problem "clicking in the middle of an article does not expand it" in Feedly:

Edwin,

This issue has some relevance for a long standing minor annoyance. The click behavior is different for top section and lower section articles in magazine view and home views. Top section articles don't expand when clicked on the article body, however they do get marked as read. Bottom section articles expanded (until today).

The previous click-body-to-expand behavior had me in the habit of clicking article bodies to expand in the lower section, but then getting an inconsistent behavior when I did the same action on top section articles.

An advantage of the new behavior is that it provides a more consistent behavior for top and lower section articles (and even though I like the convenience of clicking article bodies to read I and most others could quickly adapt to clicking just the title instead). If the mark-as-read on body-click for the top section were also removed, the click behavior would finally be pretty consistent across the sections in the magazine and home views.

I would still like a way of reading the top section articles without leaving the page, but I can live with the current behavior.

A comment on the question "Yipes, missing stylesheet?" in Feedly:

I've restarted and am back to 1.2.95. Seems fixed now. – Phil, on December 03, 2008 04:51

Phil replied on December 03, 2008 00:03 to the question "Yipes, missing stylesheet?" in Feedly:

I observed this behavior earlier as well (and took a screenshot, see below). I then restarted my browser. I don't know if it is related, but after restarting that problem was gone and I noticed that the version number was now 1.2.94 (build 2154). When the problem occurred earlier the version was 1.2.95 (as in Scott's screenshot).

However, with the "new" 1.2.94, the minibar formatting is messed up a bit. Unfortunately the fireshot plugin doesn't capture the minibar when I take a screenshot, so I can't post it.

Phil replied on December 02, 2008 20:38 to the problem "Sidebar layout bug" in Feedly:

You're very welcome. The great responsiveness of Edwin (and other feedly team members) to problem reports and suggestions makes contributing a pleasure.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on December 02, 2008 18:23:

Sidebar layout bug

I'm frequently (but not always) getting a layout problem in the sidebar. See the image below. I don't see anything unusual in the error console when I load the page:

Warning: Expected end of value for property but found ';'. Error in parsing value for property 'margin-bottom'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.feedly.com/feedly#category/Tech
Line: 0
[Repeated Three More Times]
Warning: Expected end of value for property but found ';'. Error in parsing value for property 'top'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.feedly.com/feedly#category/Tech
Line: 0
Warning: Expected end of value for property but found ';'. Error in parsing value for property 'left'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.feedly.com/feedly#category/Tech
Line: 0
[feedly][ruler]cropContent::entrySummary[566x3] --optimized to--> 286

Phil started following the idea "Let Us Put Google Gears (Offline Mode) Into This Thing =)" in Feedly.

Phil replied on November 25, 2008 17:40 to the idea "Tightly integrate feedly annotations and reader notes." in Feedly:

No problem. I was just tossing the earlier idea out there. And of course, let me know if you need any help with testing.

Phil replied on November 25, 2008 17:27 to the idea "Tightly integrate feedly annotations and reader notes." in Feedly:

Edwin,

I think this suggestion of using notes would relate well to the suggestion I sent you by email a few days ago.