The plug-in redesign is as good as done. It’s not useful right now, a lot of stuff is still hardcoded, but the basics are there. If I ever decide to make this plug-in thing work I should be able to do so without too much effort.
I also had to deal with some bugs in the Google Reader. Hey, it’s beta and the API is not officially release, so this was to be expected. Wasn’t fun though.
Google Reader seemed to give me lot’s of duplicate articles when I requested the articles for a particular feed. I don’t know what caused it, but, for instance, the Channel9 feed gave me over 2500 articles. After some examination I noticed that a lot of then were duplicate. I’ve seen some articles reappear 44 times. So I filled a bug report for this in the Google Reader group and implemented a little check when downloading feeds. FeedME now checks if an article with that feed ID has already been downloaded and if it is, it won’t be added to the article list.
Ofcourse I still see duplicates, but far less. The unread article count went from 2500+ to around 150. And the duplicates I see now can simply be marked as read so they won’t reappear. If you mark articles with the same feed ID as read, you’ve effectively marked all of them as read. And sometimes that’s not what you want and it will make wonder where your unread articles went to. I speak from experience…
So what’s still to come?
First the new website. I’m working on this, but it takes some time.
An installer. Yes, I want you to be able to simply double click something and have FeedME installed. Right now it’s just a zip file which you need to extract and copy somewhere manually.
And finally support for labels. FeedME already uses labels and shows them by pretending they’re folders. But you cannot add, remove or edit labels just yet. This needs to be possible as well.
After that, it’s beta 1 baby!
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