I have imported a quite large collection of feeds (191) from Google Reader. Some of them might be dead. The import of the feeds itself worked fine, including the folder structure, but the initial update hangs at 57/191 (29%). There a still a lot of feeds with rotating update arrows besides them in the folder panel, many of them are known to work. The update seems to got stuck at some feed that is not reachable, but I can't see which one it is.

I whole heartily think that Google Reader needs a challenger, I ponyed up and got some pro status on newsblur, but I can't use it yet. My feed reading is not chained to one device, or one piece of software.

I really think we need a sync backend, and google reader can be that sync. You can build social on top of google reader, by just "sharing" things into google reader mayby.

Hi,

A readability option when saving article would be really great !

Thanks

In a few cases, the background color on the title bar makes site favicons hard to view: https://img.skitch.com/20110130-jarpkg7grrtkbstb3ksjiuk43x.jpg

Possible to get an option so that 'o' opens the story in a new tab in the background? Something similar to 'CTRL-left click' or 'middle click' functionality.

I think it would involve wrapping an option around the 'window.focus()' call in the 'open_story_in_new_tab' function from media / js / newsblur / views / story_detail_view.js

Sorry for the lack of a pull request, I haven't dug into how you are handling options yet.

I tried adding "http://twitter.com/" as a new feed and it somehow it discovered Scobleizer twitter page. Whenever I click on that particular feed item on the left column it redirects the browser window to "http://newsblur.com/reader/load_feed_page?feed_id=3575". I cant click on the item to delete it without it redirecting.

It would be pretty cool to be able to be able to have an easily accessible RSS feed that is created from all of our subscriptions (the river of news). The benefit of that is simple clients can still use NewsBlur to a minimal degree.

I'd imagine you'd have to create some type of identifier, external to the user ID/name so that they aren't easily guessable. Perhaps also having to opt-in to the feature?

Current goal: There is a really awesome Android widget called Minimal Reader which does support arbitrary RSS/Atom feeds. To give it my curated list of stories (only those with positive rankings) would be a nice treat to the device. (With Blar used for the other stories & a more 'full' experience.)

Often, but not always, a feed will fail to be marked as fully read after the last unread story has been seen. Sometimes manifests as a (1) icon re-appearing after the feed has been deemed fully read (i.e. a feed becoming hidden from the list of feeds with unread stories, then returning to the list)... other times, reading the final story simply fails to remove the (1) icon.

about a month ago I noticed this appeared in my reddit.com/r/chrome rss feed

http://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/scxno/input_typedate_working_on_chrome_canary_and/

What struck me as odd was the fact that the title in newsblur had an actual <input> box as opposed to simply printing <input> I sent Samuel Clay an email instead of posting an issue because this seems rather exploitable.

Well fast forward to today and I have received an email from him asking me to post an issue up on github. Here you are! :)

ps heres an image> http://i.imgur.com/9eIyb.png using Firefox 12.0
also this shows up on both dev and regular Newsblur

Currently, both of these areas can be resized. A nice feature for my 13'' screen would be quick collapse and restore for these two areas.

Please add the intelligence level (positive, neutral, and negative) to stories. Currently I have to implement my own intelligence classification algorithm, and my classifications don't line up with what newsblur.com shows.

The feed, and original view are working. Story view is not.

Feed url : http://linuxfr.org/journaux.atom

Hi,

This is all in the title !

Thanks in advance

Hi, first of all sorry if this isn't the right place where post deployment issues but I was unable to find a forum/mailing list. If any, tell me.

My problem: I'm using Chakra Linux (Archlinux derivate); I've installed all required packages (mongodb, django, celery, mysql, etc).

Now, when I start installation with 'python fabfile.py' I got the following error:

[gcala@chakra NewsBlur]$ python fabfile.py
---> You need to fix django's settings. Enter python and type import settings.

that should be related to django and S3. If I run, as suggested, import settings from python console I read:

import settings
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "settings.py", line 449, in
from local_settings import *
ImportError: No module named local_settings

Does NewsBlur require Amazon S3 account? I have to setup django (which I dunno) before installing NB?

I think these are sufficient steps to reproduce:

• Get a ton of unread items in a single feed (any Gawker Media blog unattended for a day should do the trick)
• Read items until you've covered more than the initial number of items that load in for a single feed, but don't read all the items
• Leave Newsblur and wait for more new items to be published in the feed
• Return to Newsblur, select feed, read the newest items -- but there will still be unread items
• Click Next Unread -> no response

The way Readability does this is nice. Just a simple option to share the story by email without losing context.

So often I'd like to search my feeds and saved items. Would that such a thing were possible...

For example, I subscribe to both the Guardian sports feed and it's TV feed. Sometimes there will be overlap (a story about sport on tv) and the same story will be published to each feed with the same followthrough page. When navigating through the items on my feed, it becomes stuck if it reaches the first of these. Pressing the down button does not skip to the next item, and clicking on the second of the two items has no response.

Provide the ability to automatically organize feeds based on the way other users organize their feeds (my folders are messy and I'm lazy).

If i am seeing this right, 'original' pages are scraped with /reader/load_feed_page?feed_id= and the js returned is executed at newsblur. What is to stop a malicious site from hijacking a newsblur user's session / other nastiness?

Hi,

Article saving is really great and it would be very cool if saved articles could be kept in a "saved stories" entry in the same folder the original feed is filed and/or duplicate/link folder under the "saved stories" subpane

Thanks

Added a folder. Deleted the folder from the left nav bar. Then went to add a new URL and noticed the feed was still in the drop down under "Top Level"

I'm subscribed to a number of MP3 / MP4 / OGG audio and video podcasts that enclose media in the RSS feed. When one of those is in NewsBlur, it gives no indication that a media file exists in the feed item. I'd love it if there was some kind of visual indication that enclosed media existed and a "Save media file" button that let you save the enclosed file to a location of your choice.

The save story/send to instapaper menu doesn't seem to be available from the full story view. The is a feature request to add it. Example

Tested on dev.newsblur.com 1/12/11

Currently, when you tap on a feed that has unread stories, the first unread story isn't selected, and the main panel says "No Story Selected" instead. This is on the iPad in landscape mode.

I can delete a site by right clicking on it in the list, but from the "Fix a misbehaving site" screen, it just seems to try forever, never actually deletes the site.

Hi,

I have a problem when two feeds have the same title.

For example:

• http://www.pcinpact.com/include/news.xml
• http://www.pcinpact.com/include/articles.xml

If I add articles.xml in Newsblur, I only get the news.xml feed.

Pleas could you implement filter(s), which filters-and-show only "updated feeds" in the #left-pane i.e. feednavigation?

This would be a very handy feature, when one has a lot of feeds and folders.
Thanx in advance, you're doing great work!

I would appreciate a setting allowing me to specify that the first unread article I see be the oldest one, by published date.

It would be great to have instapaper support built into NewsBlur, since I like pushing longer articles to instapaper to read on my kindle later.

Possible?

Any help, hints and pointers on installing/deploying the app would be appreciated.

TIA,

-jsl

Currently, social "likes" are shown in the stats view, but not when I actually go to classify the feed (as far as I can tell). Add to this view: http://cl.ly/5tMI

I was doing a lot of intelligence training on a feed, and periodically the feed updated -- I think in reaction to sudden increases in negative filters. However, when the refresh happened, the view made a jerky and unwanted jump down. Any possibility of maintaining the scroll position during this event?

This isn't really an issue, but is there a list of available keyboard shortcuts? I have found /j/k so far. Google Reader provides a nice overview with '?'. Something like that would be helpful.

Maybe you could start a wiki for NewsBlur here on github. People might start to write some documentation. :-)

This will allow browsers to use NewsBlur as the subscription endpoint for RSS & Atom feeds.

For reference, this is Google's: "http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=%u" which will display a page asking the user if they want to subscribe to the feed in iGoogle or Reader, and if they choose Reader, it redirects to the actual reader and the user verifies subscription.

I think a similar model, showing the feed in NewsBlur and asking the user to subscribe would be effective.

I've just got things setup and have added a couple of feeds. It seems as if things are pulled fine, but when they are processed I get the following traceback:

[Nov 26 05:11:14] Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/newsblur/newsblur/utils/feed_fetcher.py", line 309, in process_feed_wrapper
ret_feed, ret_entries = pfeed.process()
File "/home/newsblur/newsblur/utils/feed_fetcher.py", line 244, in process
ret_values = self.feed.add_update_stories(self.fpf.entries, existing_stories, verbose=self.options['verbose'])
File "/home/newsblur/newsblur/apps/rss_feeds/models.py", line 624, in add_update_stories
s.save()
File "/home/newsblur/newsblur/apps/rss_feeds/models.py", line 1108, in save
self.story_content_z = zlib.compress(self.story_content)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 1562: ordinal not in range(128)

Add a g + f shortcut to jump directly to a specific feed (like GMail's go to label shortcut). As in GMail, provide inline auto-completion as the user types the name of the feed.

This is a low priority, convenience feature request. It could be rolled into a larger shortcut update, as well.

Saved stories are filtered out when the full feed is filtered to 'liked' stories only (slider moved to green).

See video at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83288/newsblur_favourites.7z

Needs either a model for feeds (also useful for searching feeds!), or an abstracted ordering method.

I have many folders and it is sometimes slow to add a new feed to a folder because I'm bad at reading a list of words. Perhaps use one of these controls:

http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

Please add a parameter to /reader/feed/ to only return stories that match a certain intelligence level. This will greatly simplify my use of the API, as I won't have to make multiple API calls and implement my own pagination just to make sure I show users enough stories on a page.

The current method of presenting articles in the feed view is to present them as the appear in the rss feed--without styling (no surprises). It would be nice if there were the option of applying some visual enhancements, a la Readability, to the content.

It would be great to see some installation instructions.

As I sit in a coffeeshop, were it not for my VPN I'd be hesitant to login to NewsBlur, and that's tragic. Could you add https? If you want to put out a tip jar for the cert and extra cpu hours, I'll donate.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create test folder.
2. Add new feed (will also work with existing feed, but you may want to use a tester instead).
3. Rename test folder.
4. Select "Move to Folder" in feed drop-down (happens for both locations of drop-down, in feed list and in article list).
   -- Expected result: List of folders will reflect current set of folders.
   -- Actual result: Test folder still bears original name.
5. Select misnamed test folder and click Save.
   -- Acceptable result: Feed is moved to test folder.
   -- Actual result: Feed is completely removed, even after page refresh.

Settings: feed view, single story at a time.

Steps to repro: select a feed with the intelligence threshold on e.g. yellow. Press the down key to switch from a whole-feed view to a single item, the first one. The resulting feed item may not correspond to the first one in the list seen below it -- it could be one below the threshold.

See http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/Cyranix/newsblurfirstitemissue.png for reference.

When I save the (dis)like property on a feed, I get a Javascript error:
NEWSBLUR.reader.load_feed is not a function.

The submit (button) is still showing "saving...".

Affected browser: Firefox 3.6.10

It would be nice to see some documentation...

Make all green/yellow/red dots next to story titles behave consistently. Add Starring/Add to Instapaper functionality to the dots in the full story view: example