Users will have noticed that digests were being served rather sluggishly over the past few days. This situation has annoyed us, so we’ve been straight on the case to sort it out. The problem arose because our ‘application server’ deals with a lot of things at once. While 90% of requests are served from our [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
FeedDigest interview available now
Tom Parish recently interviewed me for his Talking Portraits podcast. We talked about FeedDigest, the future of RSS, and related topics. It was fun! Check out the interview! I cover a lot of info about the forthcoming version of FeedDigest, so check it out.
San Francisco and LA in March 2006
I (Peter Cooper, founder of FeedDigest) will be in Los Angeles (and maybe San Francisco) in March 2006. I’m particularly interested in meeting anyone involved in the RSS and Web applications scene. We haven’t decided whether to go to San Francisco or not yet, so if anyone wants to give me a reason to go.. [...]
del.icio.us feeds about 24 hours behind
This is out of our hands, but as many people have been asking about it, it seems del.icio.us’s RSS feeds are running about 24 hours behind schedule. del.icio.us often run their RSS server behind the rest of the pack when they’re struggling with capacity, and it seems it’s really behind over the past day or [...]
New template tag – COUNTER
Want to number each item in your digest? A few people have asked for this over the past few weeks, so we’ve added a tag to do it. Just edit your digest’s template and include the %COUNTER% tag. It’ll start from 1 and work up to however many posts are in the digest. This isn’t [...]
Big performance increases
Some major changes have taken place ‘behind the scenes’ this evening. Our crawling system has moved to a ‘queue’ system for adding new items to our database. This means our database is now a lot faster, and we can crawl several times quicker than before. We implemented the ‘priority’ crawling for paying subscribers mainly because [...]
Paying users now get preferential crawling
We’ve just launched an improvement to our feed crawling system where feeds used by digests belonging to higher level users are given a significantly higher priority. This means the regularity of updates should improve significantly for paying users.
The amount of ‘extra priority’ goes up by account level, although since the vast majority of Feed Digest [...]
Upgrades re-enabled; upgrade today!
You can now upgrade your account automatically once more. Simply go to your control panel, and on the right hand side you’ll see an Upgrade link. Use this if you want to be able to use FeedDigest without linking back to our site, if you simply want to support us, or if you want the [...]
