You may have noticed a big, black void in place of your favourite rss aggregator tonight… I’m dreadfully sorry to report that there were some issues with the server that had to be resolved. Luckily the site is backed up regularly (at least daily) so almost no data was lost – the only stuff that disappeared were the items crawled today (but they’ll be back soon).
Sorry for any disappointment this has caused, normal service has now resumed :-)
There’s been an intermittent problem with OPML feed imports on trawlr recently. I’m glad to say that the problem is now resolved.
If you’ve experienced a problem with OPML imports then I urge you to give it one more try… it should be sweet!
Also a quick note, the OPML file import can take a while (up to an hour for your new subscriptions to show up). During this time you can safely browse away from the import status page and either continue using the site or give it a short while and then come back later when all your feeds will be ready & waiting.
Any further problems? Just drop me a note below.
Another day brings some more changes to your favourite rss aggregator (I hope).
1. Subscribe to a feed very easily via the feed’s page. You can also mark the feed as a favourite (click on the star icon in the orange subscription box) and add any tags to the feed.
2. When viewing an item you can quickly share it or mark as a favourite by clicking on the relevant icons (star for favourite and the transmit icon to share). The number of users who have read this item is also shown.
3. BUG FIX: There was a small problem with the feed tagging, if you’ve already tagged some of your feeds you might have to re-tag them. Really sorry about this issue and hope it hasn’t caused you any major headaches?
Thanks to Peter Cooper, trawlr has been featured on Ruby Inside along with an interview with myself about the application’s development.
Trawlr: An amazingly simple Rails-powered feed reader
Welcome to all the new users… I hope you find the site useful and stick around to help make it even better.
(You might experience some slight delay with OPML file import and subscribing to new feeds for a brief period).
After feedback (from a comment on this blog) I’ve just released a new, more friendly home page for the site as shown below.
There’s also been a small change of URL; if you want to bookmark your main rss page simply point to http://www.trawlr.com/reader/
Another hot update to trawlr adding a couple of useful features for you.
Have fun ;-)
The latest new feature for trawlr.com is the ability to comment on all feed items. You can now discuss items with other trawlr users along with the usual favourite and sharing features.
Basic formatting is supported (via Textile), for an example of this feature and to start commenting yourself check out the following item (from this blog’s feed).
Hope you enjoy.
No web2.0 site is complete without the obligatory screencast…. So I’ve created one, just over 4 minutes long, that walks through the main features of trawlr.com. The first screencast, and hopefully more in the future, is available in the screencasts section:
http://blog.trawlr.com/screencasts
Note: There is NO sound for this screencast, so sit back and enjoy…!
trawlr.com is a new online rss aggregator designed to make it easy to keep up to date with all your rss feeds.
Some of the current features include a “river of news” style feed view with infinite scroll (i.e. no paging), public sharing and favourite feeds.
Want to see an example of a public shared feed? Take a look at my shared items (or subscribe to the rss feed).
If you own a blog and see the following User-Agent appearing in your logs or web-stats, it’s probably the trawlr crawler (can you see where the name originates)! It will even tell you the number of subscribers to your feed.
trawlr.com (+http://www.trawlr.com; 99 subscribers)
Register for a trawlr.com account now. It’s free, takes seconds and there’s instant access with no email activation required!
Development blog for trawlr.com online rss aggregator