When you edit digests or create new digests there is now a simple "Timezone" field that lets you enter an hour offset (such as -5 for EST, 1 for CET, etc..) so that times output by %HOUR% %TIME24%, etc, and other Feed Digest tags, will show the time adjusted by a certain number of hours.
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Category Archives: New Features
Timezone Support for Digest Output
Public OPML outlines available for each digest
Several users have recently demanded the availability of publicly accessible OPML outlines of their digests' sources for a while now. While OPML has been available in Feed Digest for months, it’s been accessible to logged in users only. Now it’s available to access from anywhere. The URLs aren't guessable, so as long as you keep […]
Warning: Feed Digest moving servers now!
Yes, it’s true. Feed Digest is moving to significantly faster servers, and it’s all starting in the next 30 minutes. The moving plan has been designed so that service is not interrupted at all during the move except for:
1) The Feed Digest control panel will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes.
2) Updates on […]
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. […]
Several cool new features
New URL friendly name for all digests. All digests must now have a URL friendly name. This is so that we can roll out our next set of services, part of which will involve cute URLs like: http://feeds.feeddigest.com/yourdigest .. Actually, that style of URL already works! Try http://feeds.feeddigest.com/wrestlingnews! If you edit your digest, please […]
Flickr Support Improved
Hurrah, we now have improved support for Flickr. If you subscribe to any of Flickr’s RSS 2.0 feeds, you can use the ENCLOSUREURL tag to get access to the thumbnails inside the Flickr feeds. We've also created a new default template called "Flickr Slides" to help you out.
Simply create a digest using a Flickr […]
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 […]
MRSS feeds / Yahoo image feed support added
At a request from users, we now support basic MRSS feeds.. or in layman’s terms, you can now make cool digests like this one based off of, say, Yahoo! Image searches.
Simply use the %ENCLOSUREURL% tag in your digest’s template and you'll get back the URL of the thumbnail image associated with the particular item in […]
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 […]
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 […]
