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Peter F. replied on August 27, 2008 17:47 to the question "flash video not playing or downloading" in Drop.io:

Hey Rickdog,

So, we downloaded the file and it's breaking our FLV player. It plays for about 5 seconds and then causes an error. Are you able to play the original on your system and if so, can you tell us what OS/player you're using?

Thanks,
Peter F.
drop.io

rickdog replied on August 26, 2008 08:49 to the question "flash video not playing or downloading" in Drop.io:

I deleted and uploaded again. The same problem, it plays for one second. Could you please download the file from http://drop.io/SisterRosettaTharpe and take a look at your conversion problem?

Peter F. replied on August 25, 2008 23:23 to the question "flash video not playing or downloading" in Drop.io:

rickdog,

Sometimes our conversion process gets a little crazy. Can you delete the file and try to re-upload it?

Thanks,
Peter F.
drop.io

rickdog replied on August 24, 2008 10:11 to the question "flash video not playing or downloading" in Drop.io:

I guess I can save to disk, but I cannot download with a download manager. Still doesn't play.

rickdog asked a question in Drop.io on August 24, 2008 10:06:

flash video not playing or downloading

I uploaded a 7 MB flash video (.flv) but it only plays one second of it and I can't download it.

http://drop.io/SisterRosettaTharpe

sam lessin replied on August 20, 2008 12:44 to the question "none of my admin logins work now" in Drop.io:

things look ok on our end, but we are always happy to dig deeper if you are having a specific problem. if you email us your specific drop names at support [at] dropio.com we will be happy to look into it for you

rickdog asked a question in Drop.io on August 20, 2008 08:31:

none of my admin logins work now

has drop.io lost passwords from old drops?

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 17, 2008 19:29 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

Hi Rick,

I was talking about the date of the older items. You were right that feedly was not showing the correct date for the newer items (which where displayed later in the list). Problem fixed in 1.0b4.52. Thanks for the heads up.

Edwin

rickdog replied on August 17, 2008 04:48 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

I'm not seeing what you concluded about reported dates. For example if you look at the 6th item in the feed:

<title type="text">Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32</title>
<updated>2008-07-20T23:21:00Z</updated>

Feedly reports this incorrectly as September 27, 2006 while Reader correctly reports it as Jul 29, 2008

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 17, 2008 03:21 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

hmm..It might be a caching issue on the google side because of the feed redirection. I will try to post this issue on the Google Reader site and see if anyone that give use some insight.

Note: the reason why the google reader day and the feedly dates are different is because I think Google Reader uses the crawl date and feedly uses the last modified date (or published date if there are not modification). Looking at this specific example, the feedly date seems to be inline with the date the article was published so it is not an invalid date issue. It is instead a case where the ATOM feed produced by the Google Feed management system does not match the actual content of the RSS feed.

I am sorry to not be able to be more helpful. I will ask the question to Google and see what their response comes back with.

Note: investigating this problem allowed us to find another fix and optimization on our side so we thank you for that!

Thanks and have a good week end!

rickdog replied on August 17, 2008 03:11 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

yes, the ordering is the same, but the dating is different. Item "On the Greatness of The Wire" is dated Jul 29, 2008 in Reader while Feedly has is dated Oct 15, 2007. Looking at the raw feed XML I do not see "On the Greatness of The Wire" so it must be a cached item. If you go to the address http://rss.actsofvolition.com/ you will see that it is redirected to http://www.actsofvolition.com/feed. It is possible that Reader has cached both the old URI along with the new URI, each may have items both newer and older than the other that aren't mutually included.

If you look at the raw feed, item "Rock Slide Bugzilla Humour" dated Jul 29, 2008 is followed by "Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32" dated July 20, 2008. In the Google Reader view, "Rock Slide Bugzilla Humour" dated Jul 29, 2008 is followed by "On the Greatness of the Wire" dated July 29, 2008, it which is not present in the raw feed. This must mean that there have been items in previous feeds that are newer than items in following feeds, but are no longer included in the following feeds. You can see the "Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32" dated July 20, 2008 in reader way down in the list around position 80 while the same item appears at position 6 in the raw feed.

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 17, 2008 01:30 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

Rick: Here is an update. I looked at the feed in Google Reader and the ordering in there is the same as the order in feedly:



We are going to investigate more: it is not clear why these articles are so out of order (because both their published date and updated date are correctly displayed in feedly.

Will try to give you another update in an hour or so.

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 17, 2008 00:33 to the problem "Feed items are being dropped." in Feedly:

Hi Rick. Thanks for reporting this problem. We are able to reproduce it. Give us a couple of hours to investigate the problem and we will provide you with an update and hopefully a fix.

rickdog reported a problem in Feedly on August 17, 2008 00:18:

Feed items are being dropped.

Some feeds do not display correctly, they will show the first few and them skip many and then start showing very old ones.
Look at http://www.feedly.com/feedly#subscription/feed/http://rss.actsofvolition.com

The first five display, then all items are skipped until Oct 09, 2007.
version: 1.0b4.50 (build 1853)

Justin replied on August 12, 2008 05:42 to the question "No results are being got" in Filtrbox, Inc:

The first fliter I enabled got 47 results but after I deleted or excluded results there were still 47.

Suspecting that not all my filters were working, I experimented and deleted the original filter completely leaving me with four filters. I got nothing from these fairly broad filters so I set up a filter just looking for the word "Russia". I checked all the various settings were enabled to receive results but got nothing. I also tried it with the word "crime". Nada.

Some problem I think!

Justin started following the question "No results are being got" in Filtrbox, Inc.

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 05, 2008 08:00 to the problem "Embedded music player doesn't work" in Feedly:

Rick: Very sorry for the inconvenience, turned off automatic start in 1.0b4.35. Will try to reproduce: Source File: chrome://feedly/content/app/js/10101_feedly_1818.js
Line: 1047 tomorrow. If you have the chance, can you please confirm that you are seeing that error in 1.0b4.35

Edwin Khodabakchian replied on August 05, 2008 05:55 to the problem "Embedded music player doesn't work" in Feedly:

understood. we will look into all these tomorrow. -Edwin

rickdog replied on August 05, 2008 05:33 to the problem "Embedded music player doesn't work" in Feedly:

When clicking on Detail view all mp3s start playing at the same time! My cats just ran up the stairs and I almost had a heart attack.
V1.0b4.34

rickdog replied on August 05, 2008 05:29 to the problem "Embedded music player doesn't work" in Feedly:

For http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/, the Play icon displays in summary with picture view, but in picture only view there are blank spaces instead and therefore no way to click-through to the item.