A sneak peak at 1.2

January 14, 2009 by kidjan 

We’re putting some final elbow grease into 1.2 and wanted to give everyone a sneak peak at what’s in store:

  • We’ve added an “explore” feature, which makes use of the very-especially-extra nice AideRSS features to suggest popular feeds.
  • The crash at start up has been resolved.  Our sincere apologies to everyone who suffered through this problem and extra thanks to users who helped us isolate the problem (techno babble: naughty apple XML + naughty XML parser = doh!); please give the app another try!
  • The brief item viewer has been improved; it now has landscape view and a progress indicator (screen shots below).
  • Adding feeds through the AutoDiscovery and Explore features has been improved; it now shows a listing of feeds and allows you to pick and choose which ones to add.
  • A warning when zapping the database to double-check that user actually wants to do that, and understands what it means.
  • Numerous fixes for specific websites (if you have a site not working for you, please let us know!)
  • We’re going to try to sneak in a few more requested changes.

Here’s a shot of Dinosaur Comics (which, btw, we are huge fans of) in landscape view:

This page also includes a progress indicator, which is nice when you’re on slower networks or loading pages with lots of graphics.

Here’s a shot of the new AutoDiscovery “add” page:

Once DaisyFeed locates feeds, it displays them and you can pick and choose which feeds to add (in the above picture, we only selected the Atom feed to add, but we could choose both).  By clicking the blue arrow, you can edit the details of that particular feed.

Here’s the new explore page:

These are feeds that were recommended (we’re computer nerds, so apologies in advance for content).  It has the same mechanism to select and add feeds as the AutoDiscovery page.

As always, feedback is both welcome and appreciated–let us know what you think!

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One Response to “A sneak peak at 1.2”

  1. Cameron Munro on January 22nd, 2009 8:53 am

    has anyone noticed that when you have read all of your feeds and closed Daisy, the next time you open daisy 2 or 3 feeds in a category mark themselves as unread? This leaves you sorting through feeds looking for the unread ones. In my case this is up to 300 feeds, and gets quite annoying sometimes.

    Just thought I would mention this problem (it might have even been in the wrong place!)

    Thanks

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