Feedrabbit will now send an email notification if a feed has failed to fetch for 24 hours. This gives you the opportunity to contact the web site owner if there is a problem, or remove dead feeds.
As usual with this type of administrative email, it is sent to the primary email address of your account, not the email selected for the subscription delivery.
From a customer request an additional checkbox has been added to the edit subscription page to disable the table of contents in digest emails. There are various reasons why a table of contents is unnecessary for some feeds so you can now selectively disable it.
Between 12:41am and 5:47pm AEST (UTC+10) our background job processing services failed to process subscriptions for our customers. The issue was caused by the volume of work and the order of processing, a fix has now been deployed which has resolved the issue.
The effect of this outage means that all emails that should have been sent during this time were not, however no emails have been lost, the backlog has now been processed and subscription processing has returned to normal.
Please get in contact if you've got any questions.
Rising from another feature request I've just implemented support for plain text emails. If you'd like just the raw text from a feed, feel free to enable this option for realtime or digest emails.
If you've got any feedback on how they look please let me know.
All terms are matched like Google Search, there is currently no support for performing an "OR" comparison.
Currently this is a Premium account only feature, however it may become a feature for all users if the demand is there. Thanks.
Starting 18th November 2015 Google will no longer provide XML feeds for Google Calendar, existing subscriptions to these feeds will stop working at this time. Google will still provide iCal feeds, however Feedrabbit does not yet support this format.
There are a few Feedrabbit users that have subscriptions to Google Calendar XML feeds, feel free to get in contact if you'd like to continue subscribing to a calendar and you believe the iCal feed would help you.
This deprecation follows Yahoo discontinuing their whole Yahoo! Pipes service on 30th September 2015, and Facebook deprecating RSS feeds on 23 June 2015.
As mentioned recently support for sources other than RSS and Atom are on the table, so please let me know if you want support for something.
Time has really passed by lately as today marks one year exactly from the end of Feedrabbit's private beta and its soft launch. Many hundreds of users are making use of this little side project, and there were 5 users that upgraded to Premium accounts during that time.
Obviously these things will take time, so if you are interested in any of them or have a different feature request make sure to drop me a line. I'll follow up with updates here on the blog as they progress.
Just a quick update on a new feature that came from a feature request. If you wish to deliver an RSS feed to a mailing list, then you will likely want to suppress the Feedrabbit email footer so that your own unsubscribe links can be appended. Feedrabbit now allows Premium users to do just that.
Use an additional email address rather than signing up with the mailing list addresss, as account emails like password resets are sent to the primary email.
Ensure that the subscription's schedule is manually configured to either realtime or digest to ensure that it doesn't automatically change.
Hide the email footer, as per this blog post.
Get in contact if you've got any questions.
Feedrabbit now supports multiple email addresses under the one user account. You'll now see a "Deliver To" field on the subscription edit page that allows you to select which email address the subscription will be delivered to, while additional email addresses can be added via the settings page. Your primary email address will be used for all account related notifications including account changes, billing receipts and password resets.
With the introduction of the "Deliver to" field the existing "Gmail plus address" field has been removed to consolidate the user experience and because of confusion some users have experienced. These "plus" addresses are now referred to as "tag addresses" to remove confusion with their association with the Gmail product. The hope is that a single drop down of all email addresses and an improved user interface for creating these addresses will provide the best user experience. All existing data has been migrated.
Additional email addresses is a Premium only feature, however tag addresses remain a feature for all users.
Based on user feedback using time sensitive feeds, the default 60 minute polling wasn't adequate. I've changed the polling to poll quicker if the feed's publisher allows it, otherwise the default 60 minute polling continues. If you'd like to know if a feed is polling quicker than every 60 minutes, the poll interval will be displayed next to the Feed URL on the subscription details page (e.g. 5min poll).
Currently the quicker polling is based on the <ttl> (time to live) field specified in some RSS feeds, like those from the Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria, Australia.