New Rojo features
Barbara Stephenson of Rojo tells me they’ve implemented a few new features over the last few days, two of which related to requests that I (probably among others) had made.
- They’ve made the selection for “Show unread” a sticky preference, meaning that once I set that option it stays set for return visits to the site. This is very useful, as I typically only want to see stuff I haven’t read yet; another bit of evidence that Rojo gets the attention problem (and a feature that some other web aggregators don’t seem to offer - I don’t see the option to view all items in Bloglines, for instance, or the see only unread items in Feedster). The only thing I’d quibble with (and it really is a quibble) is that the option is currently set site-wide - if I decide that I want to view all items for my feed of NPR stories, that doesn’t necessarily mean that I also want to see all items in my other feeds. This item was in the Rojo Suggestions wiki, and has been marked as completed (yay!).
- Rojo added unread counts to the list of tags (used to be available only per feed). This is also great (though a little disheartening; my unread items in the feeds I want to keep up with every day are up to almost 2300)!
My thanks to Rojo for listening to the users. I’m looking forward to many happy hours browsing the feedstream!
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July 14th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
Not sure I entirely follow how the new upgrades operate, but I’m going to check these out. I have a feeling they’re going to take care of a couple quibbles of mine as well, or arouse new ones (?). I’m in Rojo “as we speak” so should be able to run through this stuff and maybe blog about it. Another off the Rojowiki list!
Allen
July 29th, 2005 at 1:30 am
I still have a problem with Rojo not able to gel well with my blog like the way Bloglines does. I am talking abt the “clip this” feature of bloglines not available in Rojo. Or have i missed it ?
August 28th, 2005 at 5:25 am
i;d love to see a rojo notifier extension for firefox, that’d really get me to switch from bloglines