I am currently trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious cron job problem (a cron job is the thing that runs automatically in the background to keep the feed updates current) .
Until I resolve it your feeds may update sporadically - I am sorry for the inconvenience.
A major change to the feed crawler was just pushed out. Those of you who have written in to ask why some feeds were not being reported as updated should hopefully see many, if not all of them accurately displayed now.
The new crawler has 3 ways to try and get a feed and its latest update. Unfortunately there are some poorly formed feeds out there that do not contain a publish date and consequently cannot be crawled by Rososo.
Thanks to all of you for the reports, please continue to let me know if any feeds are not updating. I will do what I can to try and make them work.
The feedback I received indicated that I was not alone in wanting the bookmarks to open in a new window / tab so I have implemented this. Additionally, the bookmarks will now disappear from the list as you click them.
My usual work flow when reading my Rososo bookmarks is to open all of them in a new tab, then close the tabs as I read through them. I do this on my computer by using ctrl/cmd + click, but this is not possible on the iPhone.
I find it annoying to have to navigate back to rososo.com after I chase down a link trail. Because of this, I am considering making the bookmarks automatically open in a new window / tab. If anyone has any comments on this please let me know.
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With a small snippet of Javascript, you can now put an “Add to Rososo” badge on your site / page containing an R.S.S. Feed. Check the “About Rososo” tab on rososo.com for more information.
If you haven’t noticed, Rososo has been down for a few days. I apologize to those of you who relied on it and hope you haven’t turned your attention elsewhere.
What Happened?
The short of it is that the original design of the feed crawler succumbed to.. well, poor design. It is back up with some major improvements but has been put on bed rest for the time being at its cheep hosting solution while I secure a final resting place on a speedy, dedicated server.
For now, feeds will be updated every 30 minutes until I can get the new server set up. I’m hoping to pull this off tonight but it may not happen until later this week.
-Billy
Left: Daring Fireball as seen by Rososo users.
Right: Daring Fireball as seen by Google Reader users.
Rososo was having trouble keeping you logged in. That bug was fixed last week; now you will stay logged in on multiple computers for a long time.
“Veľmi, veľmi jednoduchá RSS čítačka, s netradičným prístupom k čítaniu nových článkov.” (last one, I swear)
Some nice press today for Rososo on Lifehacker and ZenHabits.
Lifehacker says it could serve as a “My First Feed Reader” for anyone you’re trying to introduce to RSS. This is a good point — web syndication can be confusing for non-techie people. But bookmarks make perfect sense, are are perhaps more consistent with the link-based nature of the web.
