Your browser doesn’t own the web. It’s just the interface most of us default to — and for a growing number of tasks, it’s not even the fastest way to get information off a page. Maybe you’re SSH’d into a headless server with no GUI. Maybe you’re automating a workflow and don’t want Chrome eating…
In v1.8.0.862, we made a change to the user interface which we thought would be helpful but instead has turned out to be very confusing to our users. The change was to remove to (+) and (-) indicators that let you know whether the top level nodes of a subscription have been expanded or not….
Where things stood For a long stretch, Torsten hadn’t had the time or the energy to keep working on new features or bug fixes for RSS Bandit. Health issues during that period limited his involvement to keeping the site running and staying loosely connected to the codebase, rather than active development. What changed his mind…
How it works Podcast episodes and other feed enclosures could be downloaded automatically, based on your settings, or manually — right-click an item and choose to download it directly. Managing your downloads Pending downloads had their own dedicated view: View → Download Manager showed every podcast or enclosure currently downloading or queued, all in one…
Release Overview Development on this release focused on rewriting the RSS Bandit interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and moving to a ribbon-based UI — work that had to pause briefly to fix a break in Google Reader synchronization caused by a change in how Google Reader handled authenticated requests from client applications. That sync…
Release Overview This release fixes two issues affecting the recent v1.8.0.855 and v1.8.0.862 builds: a bug that could cause feed lists to be lost on upgrade, and a set of interface changes that made existing subscriptions look like they’d disappeared when they hadn’t — covered in more detail in Your feeds aren’t missing. Download the…
Release Overview Update — this release had a serious bug. The original installer caused some users to lose their entire feed list when upgrading from a previous version. If you’re looking at this for historical reference, the fix landed in v1.8.0.870, folded into what’s now the current stable release. This update covered new features and…
Release Overview Released ahead of Windows 7’s launch, v1.9.0.972 was primarily a bug-fix release, cleaning up issues from v1.8.0.870 to leave a stable base for more ambitious changes planned for version 2.0 (codenamed Gambit) — including the move to a ribbon-based interface (see the Roadmap for more on that redesign) and support for Windows 7’s…