The official mioNews room for support, feature ideas, and anything else related to mioNews. You may open feature requests and bug reports at http://tinyurl.com/mioNews-bug...
Rob - rooms are coming very very soon, it's on our short list. With rooms, it'll also open up using mioNews as a replacement for the typical FriendFeed+Google Reader combo a lot of people do. Simply create a private room with the blogs you're interested in and use mioNews to do your news reading. - Patrick Lightbody
There is an "our" for mioNews? Not a one man project? - Rob Diana
Rob - sorry, I never answered your question. It's basically just me on the product development side. There are a couple other folks advising and providing direction, but not actively coding or anything like that. - Patrick Lightbody
Rob, I'm commenting on this post, which is in a room, through a dev version of mioNews on my desktop. It's coming any moment now :) - Patrick Lightbody
via mioNews
“mioNews is back online. Thanks to Ben (and presumably the FriendFeed team backing him up), I was informed of what specific rate limit mioNews hit and now we're back in business. Shouldn't happen again... *fingers crossed”
Someone else just asked for that feature yesterday. I'll get it built very soon. - Patrick Lightbody
Nicole how many people do you follow, I have not been on since I went on holiday last Thursday and I freaked when I saw that I had 10,964 unread items. Enough to want to make you trash your computer. Well maybe not. - Jon Erickson
add another vote for mark all feeds as read. standing at over 33K and want to read it all. - Rob Diana
Agreed, we should make it easy to get a "clean slate". I'll get it going soon. - Patrick Lightbody
“mioNews now has keyboard shortcuts! They will be documented soon, but the keys are: j/k for next/prev entry, shift-n/shift-p for next/prev item on the left-hand-side, r to toggle read/unread state, s to share, c to comment, l to like, h to hate, and o to open the entry in a new window. Enjoy!”
Thanks Brian - I'll check in to that. I know I haven't looked at "mark all as read" lately, so it's definitely possible a bug has slipped in. - Patrick Lightbody
Brian - Jon also noticed this. I'm working on it now. - Patrick Lightbody
Looks like this is fixed for me. Just wish there was a way to mark everything in my entire feed read. - Brian
Brian - I'll get that added to the list. I'm working on keyboard shortcuts right now, so once that's done I can look in to this request. - Patrick Lightbody
Brian - just an FYI - the next build (due out sometime tomorrow) will include your other feature request (unread count displayed in window title) - Patrick Lightbody
Server is located in central timezone, which doesn't really explain what is going on. Fixing the timezones is also on my (quickly expanding!) list. I figure I will just honor the browser's reported timezone (rather than offer a setting). - Patrick Lightbody
Using the browser time zone makes sense to me. - Jon Erickson
John - the timezone issues should all be fixed. Let me know if you are still seeing problems. - Patrick Lightbody
“Patrick, I am getting an error when I try to get to the friendfeed tab in mioNews. It is saying Date.monthNames[month] is undefined. Then it just hangs. I have to then refresh the browser and I can only access the home tab. If you want a screen shot let me know where to email it to.”
Jon - thanks for the bug report. What browser/OS are you on? - Patrick Lightbody
I have duplicated the error on FF3.0 on both Vista SP1 and XP SP3. On Safari on Vista I get an error: http://mionews.com Undefined value. - Jon Erickson
Very strange. Screenshots should be helpful. You can email them to me at plightbo@gmail.com. - Patrick Lightbody
“Performance should be a lot better now. I spent some time this evening making the initial site load faster and tuning our backend systems. Unfortunately, I need to turn off the "relevance" feature until I can get the performance under control. In the meantime, everything else should be faster.”
There is a bunch of them, Old Store by Thomas Hawk, Ntino: Mashable ... by Hutch Carpenter, The Seesmic product short term roadmap by Loic Le Meur. The show as read then I refresh and they should up as unread again. In both FF 3.0 and Safari. - Jon Erickson
Also should there be the ability to mark all as read on home or in the friendfeed tab, for me it is disabled. It only works on individual friends. - Jon Erickson
Ken - haha, actually, I hadn't seen that until just now. Very funny. I have been working on it on-and-off or over a year, with the recent Ext-based UI started back in December. But the switch to 100% FriendFeed didn't happen until two weeks ago. - Patrick Lightbody
Is this a for-profit project, or might you open source it at some point? I think you could recruit at least one other developer reasonably quickly if it were to open. :-) - Ken Sheppardson
Ken - it's could be for profit, so open sourcing it right away may not be possible. But our larger strategy doesn't require that it be closed source either, so the status could change quickly. Our main focus is the social/relevance ranking engine, so if we did open up that part would remain closed as an API (similar to FF's API). - Patrick Lightbody
Hmmm....well personally, I'd like to have just an Outlook-like interface to FF with the ability to sort by service, user, date, show threaded comments, mark items as read, etc. The recommendation aspect of it would be secondary. Heck, it'd be nice just to build a universal RIA UI that could handle FF, Twitter, Pownce, etc. If you were to open some of your stuff, I'd probably jump in on some of the basic UI functionality. Eclipse for Social Networks, so to speak ;-) - Ken Sheppardson
BTW, you mind sharing what you're using on the back end, i.e. language/platform? - Ken Sheppardson
Ken - it's Java-based. Jetty, Spring, DWR, iBatis, postgres, plus of course Ext :) - Patrick Lightbody
“Two questions regarding My Friends. One is there any way that I can sort them by name right now it seems like they are just in a random order. Second, I tried to set up a folder to group my friends, but I can not find any way to group my friends.”
Jon - automatic sorting isn't possible (yet, but someone else asked for it yesterday), but you can drag and drop to reorder the list. I guess we need to make that feature more obvious. To group existing friends, just drag them in to the folder. - Patrick Lightbody
How do I drag when the folder is not visible? I have a long list of friends. Waiting for the Doh! answer. - Russellreno
The problem with drag and drop on FF is that I have a FF add-on that allows me to drag and drop text to open a new tab with a search results of that text. thus I try to d&d a friend and it opens a search for that name. Not working, nor did it work on Safari. - Jon Erickson
Russellreno - it *should* work like other drag operations in most applications: while dragging, move your cursor near the edge of the scroll pane and it should scroll. Should being the operative word. If you tried that, let me know and I'll investigate. - Patrick Lightbody
Jon - interesting. What add-on is that? I'll check it out and see if I can get it to work. Also, have you tried dragging the icon rather than the text? - Patrick Lightbody
D & D is sluggish. It works well if the folder is visible. I could also drag up the top and drop but that is too slow. - Russellreno
Dragging the icon works in both FF and Safari. The add on is QuickDrag - Jon Erickson
Now mioNews hangs when I click on a Friend icon. 4:38 EST. - Russellreno
Russellreno - strange. I just "sudo'd" to your account to check it out. Seems to work for some, but not others. I'll get in to it more today. Thanks for your patience. - Patrick Lightbody
I agree it fits my style really well. Thanks Patrick. - Jon Erickson
Looks promising, but when I tap on my friends, nothing happens. Using Windows XP and Firefox 3. - Sean McBride
Thanks Vince & Jon - you can expect incremental improvements every day or two :) Sean - we're experiencing intermittent errors that can often be "fixed" by reloading the page. Let me know if that doesn't fix the issue. - Patrick Lightbody
