Comments on: Friendly Feedly

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By: The Meta Secret

The Meta Secret — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:26:07 +0000

Feedly looks at itself as a start page and magazine hybrid. The main cover page, noted by an icon that looks like a book, shows the latest new items from subscribed feeds, using your own learned reading activity, combined with your sharing history in Google Reader, to bring what's anticipated to be your most interesting stories to the very front. Feedly also, in the bottom right corner of the page, has an “Explore” option, where new stories from similar feeds you may not subscribe to, are available.

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:29:32 +0000

Gen,

Thanks for the feedback. I will raise the issue at our team meeting this evening. Please note that there is a disable link in the search result and that if you disable it, feedly will never overlay any result on the search page anymore. It does not address the issue of permission and surprise but at least it reduces the annoyance to a one time event. Question: where would you put the permission/opt-in UI?

-Edwin

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:59:31 +0000

I've installed Feedly after hearing Deb like it. My main concern with Feedly is that it inserts suggested links in my Google searches. Try it and you'll see that after you do a search at google, Feedly pops in some links at the very top of the page. This is very interesting BUT should be a user option selected at startup, not something that I should be surprised by. I was so surprised by this action when I first saw it that I almost uninstalled Feedly at that moment. Once I realized what it's trying to do, I could see the value in it, but it's very disquieting for the user for Feedly to step in between the user and search results.

Make it a user-selectable pref at startup, not a default pref. My use of Feedly will hinge on this.

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:48 +0000

Hi Al,

Thanks for the review. Regarding the out of sync issue, it is due to the fact that feedly, for performance reason, keeps a local transient cache of the feed entries and the read status and only update that cache when you log in and out or restart the browser so if you start the browser, go to google reader and then go to feedly, feedly might have cached in the meantime some of the information and seem out of sync.

I will ask the engineering team to look into this problem. Between now and then, the simplest work around I can think of would be to log in and out of feedly/google reader when you transition from Google Reader to feedly.

If you run into any other problems, we are listening at http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly

Edwin