November 2010
1 post
Feed Reader Problems
There are some capacity problems with the feed reader occurring intermittently. I will be working to put a fix in, but you may witness some problems here and there. So sorry for the inconvenience.
February 2010
3 posts
Rososo Lives!
http://rososo.com
Rososo is back (almost)
So the feed crawler problems have been solved and I have put the site back up in a demo location for testing purposes. If you are reading this, feel free to try it out on
test.rososo.com
Since its ‘beta’, holding off reblogging / reposting elsewhere would be appreciated.
For those of you who know what it was, I have removed the badge blurb in the About section for now. It...
January 2010
3 posts
Marco's feed is not nice to the crawler
The crawler is trying to conserve as much bandwidth as possible and Marco’s verbose description field is throwing this effort off…
It’s clear this is being dumped from the Tumblr ‘Description’ field, but It’s also got his google analytics tracking code buried within which seems superfluous. Just sayin’.
Debugging crawler, progress slow
I’ve managed to create an entirely new, lean crawler however testing it has proved tricky. I’m juggling this work with paying work so its unfortunately taking a back seat to that at the moment.
Road to Recovery
Happy New Decade all.
So sorry for the long downtime and associated, unacceptable radio silence on my part. We are turning over a new leaf here at Rososo and hope to be up and running soon.
A bit of background on the crash:
Rososo has a crawler that has to go check your feeds every X minutes to find out when they have last updated. To do this, the previous crawl method was relying on 3rd...
Cron Misbehaving, Updates Affected
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.
Feed Crawler Enhancements
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...
New bookmark click behavior
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.
Open Bookmarks in New Window / Tab?
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...
December 2008
1 post
November 2008
1 post
Rososo is back on line
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...
September 2008
9 posts
login bug fixed
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.
foreign-language reviews make me swoon →
“Veľmi, veľmi jednoduchá RSS čítačka, s netradičným prístupom k čítaniu nových článkov.” (last one, I swear)
Rososo: Der entspannte Feedreader →
German produktivity site imgriff.com seems to like it!
Top 20 sites on Rososo
One week after launch, here are the most popular sites on Rososo, each with its total number of fans.
Jake and Amir, the duo, are the most popular by a significant margin. Individually, Amir beats Jake by a hair.
Engadget kills Gizmodo. Julia Allison ties Eric Lodwick. Outside of Connected Ventures, Kottke is king.
Jake And Amir Dot Com (45)
Ricky Van Veen’s GET EXCITED (36)
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About the name
It’s a play on R.S.S.
