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Gazette (Google Reader for iPhone) 1.0.4 now available!

Matt342 said:
I also heard from a customer that the developer of Byline has no plans to divide the folders into feeds.
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I'm the developer of Byline.

Byline doesn't load each feed individually for performance reasons, but I'm planning to offer an option to group articles by feed in a future update. In other words, you'll see exactly the same content, but ordered by source (with headings) rather than by date.
 
This is coming in Gazette 1.0.3 which should be out next week.

jowow said:
I just purchased this apps and it is great !!

But have a auto sync on/off option is better because sometime only want to read the downloaded news and dont want to use high price 3G data when no wifi connection around.

Thanks
Joe
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This will be fixed in Gazette 1.0.2 which will be out by Friday.

jaseone said:
Gazette seems to have an issue with certain feeds where it doesn't display the contents of the article for example BoingBoing's feed, viewing the same feed in Google Reader and in Byline displays the content of the article so it isn't like it is one of those pesky feeds that displays only the title or part of the content.
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Matt,

When will you address speed performance issues. It takes me about 10-15minutes for Gazette to synch to Google Reader and I've heard this from several others also. It's unusable for me at this point in time.
 
How many feeds are you subscribed to? Are you on 3G or EDGE?

~Matt

nkag05 said:
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Matt,

When will you address speed performance issues. It takes me about 10-15minutes for Gazette to synch to Google Reader and I've heard this from several others also. It's unusable for me at this point in time.
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The suggestion to create a separate "All Feeds" folder is a good one, thanks.

One other question--there was an App Store review that mentioned that feeds were only synced on app start. This means that the following flow had an issue:

1. Start Gazette
(syncs)
2. Read some articles
3. Close Gazette
4. Read articles from home computer

4. would show you articles already read in 2. The only workaround was to restart Gazette every time you close it, to sync read articles.

Is this still true? Or is this only true if in offline mode? My expectation is that, assuming I have net, that it would either update the sync as I read or when I close.
 
No it's not. You misread the review. The reviewer simply wanted an option to prevent Gazette from syncing on startup. Gazette will sync lively with Google Reader as you use the app, and if there's no network, it's gonna sync the second you connect.

~Matt


geoelectric said:
The suggestion to create a separate "All Feeds" folder is a good one, thanks.

One other question--there was an App Store review that mentioned that feeds were only synced on app start. This means that the following flow had an issue:

1. Start Gazette
(syncs)
2. Read some articles
3. Close Gazette
4. Read articles from home computer

4. would show you articles already read in 2. The only workaround was to restart Gazette every time you close it, to sync read articles.

Is this still true? Or is this only true if in offline mode? My expectation is that, assuming I have net, that it would either update the sync as I read or when I close.
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Is there a way to view an entire article without having to go to the website of the feed or do we only see the first few lines of the article?
 
You only see the summary, like in every other RSS reader.

thenetstud said:
Is there a way to view an entire article without having to go to the website of the feed or do we only see the first few lines of the article?
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thenetstud said:
Is there a way to view an entire article without having to go to the website of the feed or do we only see the first few lines of the article?
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This depends on the site you are getting the RSS from - some offer full content, others just summaries.
 
38 feeds on 3g in an area where I get good reception. With Byline, in the same area, it takes about a minute for my feeds to synch. I really like your app otherwise.


Matt342 said:
How many feeds are you subscribed to? Are you on 3G or EDGE?

~Matt
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Please go to http://reader.google.com, click on Settings, click on Import/Export and select Export your subscriptions as an OPML file. Please send me the downloaded file (click the Email Me button on http://web.me.com/matt.rajca) This is completely anonymous and will simply allow me to reproduce this issue and see if there's something wrong with my app or if it's simply the large amount of feeds thats decreasing performance.

naktak said:
38 feeds on 3g in an area where I get good reception. With Byline, in the same area, it takes about a minute for my feeds to synch. I really like your app otherwise.
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My initial sync is taking aaaaages. Over 30 minutes so far and not even half way through. This is via WiFi on a 24MB internet connection.


I'll forward you my OPML file.

Otherwise its prettty much what i've been asking for - the ability to read Google Reader offline by subscription, with the ability to add to my shared items.
 
My wishlist

I have been using Gazette for a few days now - in general, a nice little app.. I think the key advantage over "native" webpage is the ability to quickly navigate & switch over between the feeds, which gets to be a pain in Safari.

But there are a few nagging annoyances, which I am hopeful Matt will address in the upcoming releases. So here they are:

1) New items lag
This is probably my biggest issue with this product. Gazette doesn't "learn" the new RSS items nearly as quickly as native gReader webpage. It may be because it gets too busy downloading all of the feeds' content for offline reading.. If that's the case, I'd expect the "new header" lag to get reduced when we're able to turn off syncing. In any event, the sync engine should be re-designed so that it downloads only the new headers as a first step.. and only after the headers are current - start fetching the articles content (assuming offline sync option is on)

2) Loss of custom Feed names & garbled characters
In Google Reader, I have assigned custom names to some of my feeds (for example, I have re-named "Network World NetFlash" to "NW News"). Gazette seems to revert to the original feed names. In addition, some of the characters in Feed names are garbled - for example "NYT Technology" shows up as "NYT > Technology" in Gazette for some reason..

3) No landscape mode
This is a glaring one, particularly when using built-in browser. I'd think this one should be easy to implement.

4) Lack of ability to display ALL items, rather than just new
Web-based reader allows to display either "new only" or "all" items. The Gazette only displays the new items. The new/all toggle can even be an application-wide setting, similar to sync.
 
1. Gazette 1.0.3 will have an option to turn off automatic syncing. It should be out later today.

2. This will be fixed in Gazette 1.1

3. This will be fixed in Gazette 1.1

4. This will be fixed in Gazette 1.1

~Matt

hitekalex said:
I have been using Gazette for a few days now - in general, a nice little app.. I think the key advantage over "native" webpage is the ability to quickly navigate & switch over between the feeds, which gets to be a pain in Safari.

But there are a few nagging annoyances, which I am hopeful Matt will address in the upcoming releases. So here they are:

1) New items lag
This is probably my biggest issue with this product. Gazette doesn't "learn" the new RSS items nearly as quickly as native gReader webpage. It may be because it gets too busy downloading all of the feeds' content for offline reading.. If that's the case, I'd expect the "new header" lag to get reduced when we're able to turn off syncing. In any event, the sync engine should be re-designed so that it downloads only the new headers as a first step.. and only after the headers are current - start fetching the articles content (assuming offline sync option is on)

2) Loss of custom Feed names & garbled characters
In Google Reader, I have assigned custom names to some of my feeds (for example, I have re-named "Network World NetFlash" to "NW News"). Gazette seems to revert to the original feed names. In addition, some of the characters in Feed names are garbled - for example "NYT Technology" shows up as "NYT > Technology" in Gazette for some reason..

3) No landscape mode
This is a glaring one, particularly when using built-in browser. I'd think this one should be easy to implement.

4) Lack of ability to display ALL items, rather than just new
Web-based reader allows to display either "new only" or "all" items. The Gazette only displays the new items. The new/all toggle can even be an application-wide setting, similar to sync.
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Hey, just downloaded the app. Works great! It's actually the first app that I've purchased (freebies only so far). One request though, a choice to move out to Safari. If I click on a link in a post, I'd like it to follow to the actual Safari if possible. Also, there's an issue with names of feeds being truncated in the top bar. Just a little UI quirk that could stand some polish.

Great work. Glad I found it here on MacRumors.
 
Matt342 said:
For those that didn't notice - Gazette 1.0.3 is now out!
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Not sure I understand the intended use of the new "Sync on Launch" toggle.. When I turn this option off - the app doesn't perform any updates at all, until I manually hit the refresh button.

I was expecting this feature to only disable syncing the full article content, while the app stills learned the new headers. Is that not how this is supposed to work?
 
I bought this app today; the first time I launched it it loaded all my feeds and worked great, fast even on 3g. Ever since that launch it is only displaying about 1/3 of my feed subscriptions. Very annoying and highly unusable due to this issue.
 
Hi!

Gazette automatically removes feeds (locally) that haven't gotten any new articles in over 12 hours. They will automatically reappear as soon as new, unread articles are available. This improves performance and reduces clutter of the interface.

~matt

swizcore said:
I bought this app today; the first time I launched it it loaded all my feeds and worked great, fast even on 3g. Ever since that launch it is only displaying about 1/3 of my feed subscriptions. Very annoying and highly unusable due to this issue.
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Nice app, just curious how long was the review process with apple on 1.0.4?
 
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