Comments on: Google Reader Problem

By: Mihai Parparita

Mihai Parparita — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:02:57 +0000

Sorry to hear that Reader is giving you trouble. The team was not paying full attention to the group last week due to the (U.S.) holiday, but feel free to email me with any details you can provide on the bug you’re seeing and we will see what we can do.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

By: dave

dave — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:33:09 +0000

And now it’s about 7 hours after I posted to that newsgroup (via Google groups) and it doesn’t seem to have gone through. If it doesn’t ever show, so be it. I’ve done my bit.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:11:33 +0000

Oh, and by the way Eldon, if you are the owner of the FeedOnFeeds installation at drift.wrek.gatech.edu (which seems freakishly likely), you really need to protect that with an .htaccess password or something. I’m just saying. I ran FoF for a year or two, and I needed the same thing or else the referrals of automatic link presentations began to pop it on to radars and then anyone in the world could fool with it.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:08:15 +0000

Dom, not sure about that one.

All, thanks for thie input. I tried to post my observation to that Google Groups thing. We’ll see how it goes.

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:47:22 +0000

I have also started using Google Reader as I like to catch up on all my feeds at work. One thing I don’t know if you can do is order the feeds so the oldest are first. Otherwise I’m scrolling through all my feeds and marking them as read even if I haven’t read them yet.

Am I missing something?

By: Eldon

Eldon — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:18:27 +0000

They know now (or as soon as your site is hit by their spider). But really, I bet they have a “google groups” group about it. Also, I know it’s a bit plain, and there are a lot of features I’d like to implement (searching, mobile reading, and improved usage of the XML model, maybe some ajax features), but I really enjoy FeedOnFeeds, which is all php/mysql (with some js thrown in), and since it’s oss, I can get in and modify it as much as I want. I’ve already worked towards implementing tagging.

By: cori

cori — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:15:30 +0000

Hey Dave;

I think the mechanism they want you to use is the GReader google group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Reader (the path from reader isn’t transparent: click Help in the upper right on the GReader page, then on the bottom of that page click Discuss Reader (then sign up, blah, blah, blah)).

You could also email Nick Baum, the project manager at nickbaum{a t}google{d o t}com.

By: mike dunn

mike dunn — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:14:52 +0000

i definitely noticed some issues w/ the reader but nothing that would make me want to go back to bogline…

mostly when it comes to scrolling through a feed that has multiple new posts (like the aggregation lists that have multiple authors) the left pane doesn’t keep up w/ the read count – so i usually manually mark all as read – no big deal but still a bug…

a bug report would be nice…