Dear Feed Informer visitors,
As you’re already aware, FI experiences stability problems for several days in a row. We have found the potential source of the problem and we need a few more days to monitor the site closely and fix the issue.
We know that you’re aren’t happy right now, that’s understandable, but please let us find a permanent solution, we do not want to apply ASAP some kind of quick patch or workaround that will fail sooner or later.
Yours truly,
FI team
Feed Informer stability issue
Maintenance message
Dear customers,
We would like to inform you that tomorrow, 3 June 2009, between 3 and 8 AM EDT, we will be shutting down the main database server for maintenance.
During this time all digests will be operational but not updating.
Please forgive the inconvenience.
Let’s discuss our development plans
Dear Feed Informer users,
today we would like to discuss with you Feed Informer future developments.
We get your recommendations and suggestions all the time, and using those comments we created a plan of changes to FI service. We would like to hear your opinion on this plan Read More »
FAQ
How long it takes for a new feed to update through Feed Informer?
It seems like my feed hasn’t updated for a long time.
It varies a lot. It varies by how often the source provider lets us check (varies widely) and also by how often your digest is accessed. We do not update digests if they are not accessed, so digest requests trigger updates. This can cause slowness in ‘test’ situations where only one person is using a digest irregularly, but soon clears up once they’re in the wild. Read More »
Technical problems solved, new server about to speed up the service
Hello everyone,
We had some technical problems with Feed Informer servers during those two days, and we are glad to inform you that these problems are gone now.
Also, we plan to add a new extremely fast and powerful server to the system this week, and we expect a significant performance improvement once this addition is made.
Hopefully Feed Informer users’ experience will be improved as well :)
Yours,
Feed Informer team
Good news for all Feed Informer users!
Hello everyone,
We are glad to inform you that our project team decided to provide our users with nearly unlimited number of feeds per account:)!
Seriously, you can forget about the six feed limitation since you can create up to one hundred feeds. Yes, there’s still limit, but we cannot remove it completely without putting server stability at risk. I sincerely hope that one hundred is more than enough even for advanced FI users.
Also, we plan to improve FI service in general, add features, provide e-mail based technical support and so on and so forth:)
Yours,
Slava
and FI project team
p.s. You will hear more new names soon, and the project is about to change:)
Important news regarding Feed Informer future
Hello everyone,
we are glad to inform you that we plan to make significant changes to Feed Informer project.
Paid services will certainly be back, and we will work on new features and services. We also plan to have technical support available to paid users via e-mail, and to everyone – via forums.
That also means that there will be a way to create more than 6 digests, the question that was asked numerous times.
We also need your help: if you plan to switch to paid status to get additional features and technical support – let us know by leaving a comment below.
Also, if you have ideas on how to make to service better, please do not hesitate to comment here too.
Yours,
Feed Informer team
Good news everyone! Finally we made it – the new hot Feed Informer is here to rock up your world!
We’re happy to introduce our updated FI with totally NEW design. It looks like Web 2.0, it feels like Web 2.0, (oh, what the heck) it smells like Web 2.0. You know what, IT IS Web 2.0!
Your favorite Feed Informer became even more accurate and stylish.
From now on you won’t be sitting whole day on the first page changing settings! All settings are divided in several sections, which are easily operated by even the most novice user. A well-ordered web-service is a good (even great!) web-service, no?
New hierarchically arranged menus, new user panel, vivid display of choices – everything in order to extend usability of our service and bring Feed Informer to the whole new level for everyone (from casual user to hardcore web-site owners!)! So, fasten your sit belts, sit tight in your chairs and FEEL THE POWER of NEW FEED INFORMER!
Timezone Support for Digest Output
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.
Feel free to discuss this feature and ask questions here.
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 your URL for your own use only, you’re good to go. To get the URLs, log in to your Feed Digest control panel and there’s an OPML link alongside each digest.
