Prisca has written a cool blog post about how to republish your del.icio.us items using Feed Digest. Thanks Prisca!
Category Archives: General
The upcoming new template system!
In my work with Feed Digest, one of the constant limitations is the template system. I want users to have as much control as possible over their digests, and while the existing template system hasn't been bad, it’s far from ideal.
Currently users can give an optional header and footer template and a 'per item' template. […]
Slow feed updates
After working with several users who were reporting poorly crawled feeds, we've discovered the latest version of MySQL (our database server of choice) has a bug in a certain area of its operation, and this bug tripped in when we did our database upgrade just over a week ago. This caused some feeds not to […]
Paying customers to get their own servers
We've come to a decision on how we're going to organize our infrastructure for the next release of FeedDigest, and we wanted to give you a rough idea of how we see the transition occurring.
First off, we're setting up a beta site that will showcase aspects of our new interface and control panel. It will […]
FeedDigest search system disabled for non subscribers
As you may know, FeedDigest is gearing up for a relaunch and rearchitecture in the next month. One major part of this is that the concept of query and search based feeds is going. They're impractical to maintain and significantly slow down our systems, disturbing service for everybody. This does not include external feeds which […]
Digest serving speed problem resolved
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
