Comments on: Version 1.2: Speedster edition

by: Nathan

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:41:42 +0000

Fabricio, You’re seeing Rails errors when getting a feed with many posts?

by: Fabr�cio

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:09:50 +0000

My feed Balance on Rails erro very large post =/

by: David T

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:23:31 +0000

That would be a very welcome addition for me!

by: mini-bunt

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:48:57 +0000

Nate and Doug:

Things are quick, peppy, and swift. Needless to say, FAST!

Keep up the good work!

-MD

by: Nathan

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:51:33 +0000

David, If we make double click to mark read a user selectable option, I think it would solve the non-obviousness problem.

by: David T

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:00:40 +0000

“what would you think about double clicking anywhere on individual entries to mark them as read?”

That would be good, and actually far superior to moving the “read it” button. You could get half way down a post, realise it’s irrelevant, click and it’s gone. I like it personally but I see it creating UI problems.

a) It’s not particularly obvious.
b) You suddenly have a lot of real estate doing a single function.
c) There are usually links embedded in the entries, one misdirected click and the article is gone.

Could you have maybe a curled page image in both corners, like a turn of page, as if you were tearing it off. That way you have the readit/removeit functionality at the start and end of every article.

by: pqs

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:09:40 +0000

Thanks! Much better now!

by: elvyse

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:34:09 +0000

Hehe I see we have some feeds in common Nathan. Did you enjoy reading about the WTF University?

by: Nathan

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:08:12 +0000

Kevin, the keyboard shortcuts might help you out until we come up with something better.

David (and everybody else) what would you think about double clicking anywhere on individual entries to mark them as read? In GTD TiddlyWiki this is how you can quickly open an item for editing. Do you think this would confuse people who aren’t as experienced? I’ve seen people who still double click browser links.

by: David T

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:03:44 +0000

If we’re doing wish lists. Any chance of moving (or having option to move) the “mark as read” to the top of the article box rather than at the bottom. This way you can keep the mouse in the same place and click through large feeds quickly. I like the slide up effect but find I have to move the mouse about “Doom” style to click through large feeds. Love the update BTW and the way the site is going.

by: Kevin Navia

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:17:07 +0000

Wow, this really is shaping really nice!

I would like to suggest that the Feed Title/header and its buttons would remain visible when scrolling the div feed or prolly have small teeny button links at the bottom.

I’d might as well switch from bloglines for good!

Good Job guys!

by: Scott Kingery

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:06:36 +0000

Ok, the UI is fixed. Could have been my browser.

Note to self: Shift+Click Refresh (or Shift+F5) to make sure you get the UI from the web and not your messed up cache.

by: Nathan

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:43:08 +0000

Yeah I’m seeing slowdown too. Now it’s not the DB server but the web server. We’re working on it.

by: Scott Kingery

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:31:08 +0000

Nathan…I get it. Cool.
Things are a litte odd this a.m. The options tab isn’t showing up right as is the mark everything read at the bottom of the feeds list on left. And slowwwness came back.

by: Nathan

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:35:23 +0000

Scott, I fixed that issue where the scroll now heads to the top when new feeds are clicked. That change will be published within 24 hours. I�m not so sure about keeping the header part non scrolling. It does make sense, but since we have keyboard shortcuts I�d rather devote the extra space to the feeds.