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Scott: You've seen the crashes, you've tolerated the slowness and you didn't yell (too) loudly. You're a great set of users and we love you all. So it is with great pride that I give you: Feedster Version 2.

Source: Scripting.

Randy: Great news! A review of the new system will follow later today.

Update: My notes on the new Feedster.

  • Every search result page has a Javascript error.
  • If I add an RSS URL to my feed parser, it complainsthat URL is returning HTML instead of RSS. I validated this to be true, by retrieving the RSS file using HTTP and I submitted several URLs to the FeedValidator. Nothing worked. In fact, if you view the RSS more than once in a browser, the results returned to the browser are HTML, not RSS. And no, I understand the XSL style sheet directive very well.
  • The site speed hasn't improved at all. In fact, I'd suggest it's worse than ever.
  • The sites XHTML isn't valid.
  • If you click Advanced Search, it doesn't take you to Advanced Search or Preferences, rather it just takes you back to the homepage.
  • If you click the small xml icon at the bottom of the page, the returned XML isn't well-formed.

Overall, my impression is that the site is completely broken. I have to laugh now at all the people who said the new site was great. I imagine they didn't actually use the site beyond viewing the new homepage before sticking their foot in their mouth. What complete ass kissing!

Update: I discussed w/ Scott at Feedster and he is fixing.

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