Feedable Hello -

I wanted to give our users bit of advance notice. We're going to do a scheduled downtime tonight at 11:30pm US Pacific time.

We're doing this to roll out a major upgrade to our backend search system. I expect that the downtime will take until 2am Pacific.

Thanks for your support!

We just released a new feature that makes it incredibly easy to publish your own linkblog, inside Feedable.

Just go to the "Saved Articles" item in your library.
You'll see a message that looks like this:

Just click "Make public" and the message will change to this:

That's all you have to do. Any time you save an article inside Feedable, that article will be published on your own public page.

Your public page url looks like this:
http://reader.feedable.com/user/<your user name>

As an example, here's my page.

Your public page also has an RSS feed built right into to it, so it's easy to subscribe to another user's saved articles.

Please tell us what you think by commenting on this post or emailing us.

Hi! We just released a new feature that makes it much easier to switch between different views of your feeds or folders.

Viewing the content of each article is great for blogs with lots of pictures where you want to read the entire post.

Viewing a feed by links results in a much higher density of information. You can scan through an entire day of craiglist rental postings in just a few moments using this view. FYI: The inventor of RSS, Dave Winer, calls this the "River of News" format, but we call it link view so you don't have to know all the lingo.

Ultimately, we put these new buttons out to make it easier for you, so check it out and tell us what you think.

Hello!

Welcome to hello.feedable.com. This is a community space for people who use Feedable.

If you have ideas about how to make Feedable better, this is the place to share them. By posting here, you'll be communicating directly with the actual developers of Feedable.

So welcome to our public beta. What do you think?

Hi, I was supposed to mention what was new in the last release yesterday but didn't get around to it, so here's a quick list. Most of the changes were on the backend so you shouldn't notice them directly, but they are preparations for future improvement.

The way that the search index is stored is greatly improved. This will allow us to store a great number more feeds per machine and search them more quickly. Also, the way the feedable finds new items each time it checks a feed is improved, so that fewer database queries need to be made.

As a result of this new headroom on our box, we are able to crawl the most popular feeds in our database continuously to find more new feeds. Yesterday we added 10K new feeds to the db are continuing to do so today. We believe this will make the Discover section work better.

As for things visible to the user, we have once again improved the feed icon. It has a little RSS feed symbol inside it now. Big (and this time visible) changes are scheduled for next week. It's going to be a fun year!

-ben

The Discover section has been returned to its former glory. I have a few more tweaks to make and will report back on what's new in this release later today.

BTW - it sure is a lot easier to fix things at 10am than at 4am after working all day and night.

Hi, We released a new version of Feedable last night and are still having some trouble with the Discover section.
We are working on it now and it should be back up shortly.
Thanks for your patience.
-ben