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Phil replied on November 10, 2008 01:35 to the problem "Four nits to pick" in Feedly:

Here is a screenshot, I haven't installed anything to make screencast.

The way to reproduce it is nothing more than as described above. Inlined article with video (e.g., youtube). Single click to play the video and the popup menu occurs. Here's the feed with the article in the screenshot below (though I don't think there is anything special about, just the first youtube article I could find) In case the behavior is platform dependant, I'm running XP with FF 3.0.3.

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/feed/

Phil replied on November 09, 2008 08:07 to the problem "Four nits to pick" in Feedly:

Here's a replacement nit #2. If I have five categories with content. The five themselves show fine on the cover, but in the second row to the right of the fifth category there are three spinning circles as though feedly is waiting to load more categories into the second row. The spinning circles don't ever go away.

Phil replied on November 09, 2008 08:01 to the problem "Four nits to pick" in Feedly:

I think was confused. Please disregard (2).

Thanks Edwin.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on November 09, 2008 04:53:

Four nits to pick

Feedly is so much more polished now. But I have a few things that bug me now and again.

1. When I click on a youtube video in an inlined article to play it, there is a popup menu for annotating blocking my view. I have to click somewhere to get it to go away.

2. I wish the feed counts on the cover page were dynamic like those in the sidebar. I've been spoiled by that feature.

3. It would be nice to get that favorite star icon problem fixed

4. When I'm reading inlined articles in the river, I can't quickly see where they're from. Would it be possible to but the feed name on the publised line?

Phil started following the problem "Cover page alignment" in Feedly.

Phil replied on November 07, 2008 17:54 to the problem "Magazine view load failure" in Feedly:

Don't know when (or if) you'll be able diagnose this minor problem, but I just wanted to document it a bit more.

I think that this (http://www.sacatomato.com/2008/11/day...) is the article that causes the problem for magazine view.

I had another article in this low volume category that apparently pushed the referenced one off the top position and the magazine view loaded fine. After I read that new article (so that the unread one referenced above returned to the top) the magazine view loading problem returned.

Phil replied on November 06, 2008 20:18 to the problem "Magazine view load failure" in Feedly:

If it's a image loading problem (and that sounds reasonable), then perhaps the timeout should shortened (if there is one). Feedly never stopped trying to load the image for as long as I watched.

No problem if this is down on your list. I'm still eagerly awaiting the goodies in beta 2.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on November 06, 2008 18:24:

Magazine view load failure

I'm not sure why, but I have a category with three feeds containing four unread articles that won't load in magazine view. The spinning circle shows endlessly until I change the view to river.

If I change the magazine view to include both read and unread articles, the bottom section shows but the top section still spins indefinitely.

I read sufficient articles in another category to reduce unread articles to four there, but couldn't reproduce the problem.

If you want to try to reproduce this, the three feeds are:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sacatomat...
http://sacramento.metblogs.com/index2...
http://sacrealstats.blogspot.com/feed...

Phil replied on November 06, 2008 17:17 to the problem "Unread Count" in Feedly:

Here's one. I don't recall with certainty the others.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ymailblog...

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on November 06, 2008 15:14:

Unread Count

I've noticed in the last few versions that the unread article count has begun to get off occasionally again. It's generally just been that sometimes the count shows one remaining article when there are really none.

I've not yet been figure out how to reproduce the problem on demand.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on November 03, 2008 17:19:

"mark all as read" bug

I reported this below, but buried it in someone's idea thread (http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/top...) and I don't know if anyone saw it. So since I understand you are in a bug cleaning phase here it is again.

The top "mark all as read" link stops working in river view after either expanding an article inline or opening an article in another tab. This problem doesn't seem to occur in magazine view, but I haven't checked the rest.

Also, the link is not highlighted as clickable (blue) like the bottom link, so some people might not notice it.

Phil replied on November 01, 2008 16:47 to the idea "Mark page read in all views" in Feedly:

The mark all read text at the top of category pages is not clearly clickable. Also it still stops working for me once an article has been expanded inline.

Perhaps if you enabled the keyboard shortcut 'm' on category pages and the various front pages it would add the necessary functionality, eliminate the clickable "mark as read" issues, and minimize clutter.

Phil started following the idea "We need a way to select, order and configure the number of listings on a view page say http://www.feedly.com/feedly#latest or http://www.feedly.com/feedly#category?" in Feedly.

Phil replied on October 30, 2008 18:58 to the problem "Something wrong with cover" in Feedly:

This may be too obvious, but...

Could Romulo be clicking on the article summary rather than the title? When that is done the article is marked read (as is apparent in the screenshot) but doesn't open.

Phil started following the problem "Something wrong with cover" in Feedly.

Phil replied on October 27, 2008 18:18 to the idea "show unread articles in the top menu" in Feedly:

I hope I'm not being too contrary, but here is my own take on your idea.

This information would be nice to have at hand when viewing the cover page, but I think that it would be better to put the unread number next to the cover page category titles rather than in the menu bar.

I suspect that having the numbers in the menu bar wouldn't be very attractive looking. Also a quick glance at the side bar of the latest and greatest sections gives a good sense of how many articles are available in each category. Is the added information really that useful in those views?

Perhaps putting a category total unread next to the category name in the sidebar and on the cover page would accomplish most of what you want and hopefully not clutter up the screen too much.

I'd go for that.

Phil reported a problem in Feedly on October 25, 2008 16:14:

Explore on the Cover Page

The explore title on the cover page is clickable, but the link has no content.

Phil started following the problem "Undisplayable character appended to favourite feed titles" in Feedly.

Phil replied on October 24, 2008 03:17 to the problem "Header and search box no longer on page." in Feedly:

It looks like a useless zoom icon (magnifying glass on the right side of the top menu bar), but in reality it opens the search box. It would be nice if feedly remembered the last setting (open or closed) between sessions, but it doesn't currently. At least it seems to keep it open during a session.

I empathize with your loss of the giraffes. I lost the comfort of rows of books and a sense that I was in a library. On the other hand, the interface is now more functional and cleaner.

Phil replied on October 21, 2008 19:13 to the problem "with Category Page River View Title" in Feedly:

My post had a typo. I meant to say that "read" (not "unread") articles become visible on clicking the category title.

In response to your question, I don't see why the title should be clickable at all, and if it does anything I would think that a refresh would be the only logical action. I don't see the value in getting a preview version of the category page.

I don't recall this behavior existing previously.