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.