Yes, that's a small cry of pain. :) When this thing works, it's my favorite web page on the net. - Sean McBride

Sorry about that. You might have been one of the few the 2.0 digest was pushed to or it might be an older bug. Do you know if the dupes are caused by the source having published twice the same article or do you think that it is feedly printing twice the exact same article? Could you please install http://update.feedly.com/update... and send us a small screencast of what you are experiencing. Sorry for the pain. we will try to address this issue as soon as possible. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin -- thanks for the response. The update isn't working at the moment -- I am getting a "Not Found" message for the URL. Here is what is happening: when I "mark page as read" and "refresh," I am seeing many of the previous read items on the new page. Just tried it again: the three top items at the head of the page are repeats of the same pre-mark page as read items. - Sean McBride

Note: "mark page as read" and "refresh" ARE working as normal for individual feeds -- the problem is only evident with My Digest, which is the Feedly page I access most. - Sean McBride

Thanks for the additional information. Sorry for the wrong update link. The update link should be http://update.feedly.com/release... I will open a bug against the mark page as read + refresh to make sure that the new streamlined recommendation engine is supporting that case. Will keep you posted. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin: latest report: installed the update, and am still experiencing the dupes problem. Around 50% of the items after "mark page as read" and "refresh" have appeared on the previous cycle, and quite a few continue to reappear after successive cycles of "mark page as read" and "refresh." - Sean McBride

One question: when they reappear, do they reappear as read (dark gray) or as unread (blue) links? - Edwin Khodabakchian

Mostly dark gray, but also blue sometimes: the top three items at the head of the page are recurring as blue when I haven't performed any operation on them (reading, sharing or saving). - Sean McBride

OK. That is super useful. We are working on cleaning up some bugs to push the new version of the recommendation engine out. I think that you were one of the lucky few who got to experience it and the regression you are seeing is related to that. The goal this week it to hammer out bugs like the one you are reporting. Note: one of the key benefits of the new recommendation engine is that it requires a lot less memory (about 1/5 the size of the previous- which is key for the phone and the TV). - Edwin Khodabakchian

Thanks for all the detailed feedback. Expect to hear back from us either very late this evening or tomorrow. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Sean: we just pushed out 1.2.240. It includes the new recommendation engine. Fixed the "top 3 articles do not get marked as read" issue. Was not able to reproduce "mark page as read + refresh generates a page with some entries in dark gray which I have already read". Will dive deeper tomorrow. A screencast would help us. Thanks - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin -- will the link above install 1.2.240? I reloaded that link, and I am still having exactly the same issues. Another issue: when trying to update Feedly from Firefox Add-ons, I receive the following error message: "An error occurred while trying to find updates for Feedly." I'll send you the screencast you requested in email which demonstrates the dupe problem. - Sean McBride

@Sean: thank you very much for emailing us a screencast. The bug was related to the fact that the new recommendation engine was not limiting the number of saved for later items which were included in the digest. This problem was fixed in the 1.2.241 patch we just pushed out. Special thanks for all your help. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin -- great. I just put My Digest through its paces and it's back to normal again -- no dupes. - Sean McBride

I can't yet put my finger on how it has changed, but Feedly's news recommender algorithm has significantly changed in some way. I am seeing a different mix and ranking of feeds and articles - Sean McBride

The future of news recommender systems: users should be offered a choice among a collection of different algorithms; the algorithms should be explained in plain and simple English -- perfect transparency; no secret sauces. A click or two to switch algorithms. - Sean McBride

Oops -- some dupes have begun to slip back into the Feedly My Digest stream. They are all marked "saved for later." - Sean McBride