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Posts Tagged ‘RSS Viewer’
RSS Viewer: Down for Maintenance
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010RSS Viewer: Where We Stand
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010I have not posted an update for a while, so here is where things stand. We were planning on release version 2.0 last month, but we decided it was in the best interest to fix the scalability issues. We are finalizing those issues this week hopefully. These updates on the server side should result in more frequent crawling of feeds resulting in faster notifications. We are also working on the notification engine to push notifications faster and ensure delivery of those notifications. Finally, downloading content from the server via the app should be much faster resulting in improved usage of the app. Once we release those updates on the server side, we will follow with the launch of our 2.0 version. Stay tuned for more information as we work through this. Once again, thanks for everyone’s continued support and we apologize for any issues over the past few months.
Thanks,
Nicholas Hagen
RSS Viewer: Unicode Support Now Available
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010We appear to have possibility resolved the issues around unicode support without requiring an update. The issue appears to have originated from the server and the current version works without changes. Unfortunately, existing articles and feeds will not show up properly, but ongoing articles should properly begin showing up as of today.
If you still have issues with certain characters or character sets not displaying, please let us know or drop us a comment.
RSS Viewer: Upcoming Maintenance Tonite [Complete]
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010[Updated Feb 19, 2010 6:48 AM EST] We apologize for the extra downtime. Everything should be back up. Let us know if you see any issues. We hope to get our 2.0 testing started this weekend. Note that we still have room for testers, so email us to get on board.
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[Updated Feb 18, 2010 8:30 AM EST] Unfortunately our update process did not go as smooth as we hoped so things are taking longer to resolve. We hope to be back up by mid day. Thanks for your continued patience.
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[Updated Feb 17, 2010 11:30 PM EST] RSS Viewer is now down through the nite for updates
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RSS Viewer will be going down for maintenance tonite at 11 PM EST in order to begin transitioning to our next release set to begin alpha testing this weekend. We plan to be down all nite migrating everything over. All access including logging into RSS Viewer will be unavailable. We will update this blog and our twitter account when the maintenance starts and completes.
If you are interested in alpha/beta testing and have not yet replied, please send an email to info@znetdevelopment.com. We still have spots available.
Thanks,
Nicholas Hagen
RSS Viewer 2.0 Status
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010As many of you know we were trying to get our 2.0 release out by end of January. Unfortunately, that date has passed, but we are still hard at work trying to tie up the final loose ends of the release. All of our planned features have been implemented and we are just cleaning up and trying to get everything nice and polished. We want to ensure a great experience when we release our update, so continue to bear with us.
That being said, we will be looking for beta testers in the upcoming weeks to help us test this release to ensure we meet that great experience. If you are interested in helping us out, send us an email at info@znetdevelopment.com with your registered email address. Note that you must not be using a jailbroken device to participate in the beta program. Unfortunately, we will only be selecting a few users. In particular we are looking for users who want to test out the following:
- Google Reader synchronization
- Friends and sharing items
- Authenticated Feeds
- UTF-8 and International Support
Thanks again for everyone’s continued patience.
Next RSS Viewer Update Status
Friday, January 15th, 2010Several people have asked when the next version of RSS Viewer will be coming. Here is an update to that question as well as a list of some of the more prominent features. We are currently trying to release a version to Apple by the end of January. The following features are some of the highlights for this release:
- Google Reader support including synchronization of feeds in both directions and synchronization of read/unread status
- True read/unread status of articles
- Authentication support for basic and digest authentication modes
- Privacy settings to restrict feeds from showing up in popular feeds or in searches
- Friends support to quickly share articles with friends as well as view your friends favorite feeds
- Unicode and better international support
- Notification specific settings per feed including customized sounds and interval
We are also improving performance and several bug fixes.
Thanks,
Nicholas Hagen
RSS Viewer Maintenance Outage (Nov 16) [Updated]
Friday, November 13th, 2009[Update 1:15 AM] We are back online and everything looks good. Let us know if you see any issues.
RSS Viewer will be having a maintenance outage on Monday, Nov 16 at 12:30 AM. The outage should only last 1-2 hours at which point all services will be unavailable. We are further expanding our capacity to provide faster updates once again.
Thanks
RSS Viewer: Quick Maintenance [Resolved]
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Everything is back up again. There was an intermittent issue with accounts not creating properly. The issue has been addressed and everything should be functional again. If you notice any issues, drop us a note so we can help resolve it quickly.
We will be down for a quick maintenance at 1:00 AM EST. We should be back up within 15-30 minutes.
20,000+ Push Notifications per Day
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Thank you to everyone who has purchased our application and stayed with us as we continue to improve upon things. We are now averaging about 20,000+ push notifications per day and only expect that number to climb more and more. We have much more in store over the coming months and hope you continue to stay with us as we improve our application and systems each day.
RSS Viewer: Issues [Update]
Monday, October 19th, 2009[Update] We have re-enabled user registrations. However, we will be disabling accounts in which push notifications fail to be delivered. This does not mean that you have to enable push notifications. It only means that if you enable push notifications and we are unable to deliver a message (typically due to invalid devices or uninstalled applications), then we will disable the account temporarily. If your account ends up disabled and you are unable to login, send us an email and we can re-enable the account. Once our next client version is released, we will have better measures in place to avoid unauthorized usage. At that time we will remove these measures.
As many of you have realized, our servers have been having several issues through the past weekend. Unfortunately, are servers are under attack, which we are working to alleviate and resolve. We will most likely be releasing a new client version with a fix in place to stop illegal usage of the application. At that time, you will be required to update your application as we will block all prior versions. This is an unfortunate step back, but we are working to make this as painless as possible while also stopping unauthorized usage.
Thanks,
Nicholas Hagen