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There are a number of new features in the upcoming (3.6) release of BottomFeeder. I've also addressed a number of bugs that have been brought to my attention - here's the list of the major new stuff coming down the pike:
Added "Newspaper view" to BottomFeeder. Users can view all new items (on feed/folder selection) in an html summary, or limit those summaries to individual feeds via property settings. The view summarizes all items (either all new or all today's) at the appropriate selection level. If there are too many items, a paging view is displayed
Added remote synchronization. A running Bf can query another Bf via HTTP (on port 8666) for its state of items (read/unread). The local image will be appropriately updated. This may be limited by firewalls, so there is also a file import/export mechanism.
Improved the "is this item new" algorithm significantly, and decoupled the logic from the size of the feed cache.
Upgraded the Blog Poster with more wiki markup options
Added the ability to toggle the spell checker on and off for the poster and for the comment tool
If you browse a document link inside of Bf, Bf will now prompt you to download the file. Previously, Bf logged an error on such requests
Image display in the HTML component has received more upgrading. This should be improved in the latest release
This keeps Bf even with or ahead of the rest of the aggregator field, including the commercial ones. The new release should be out fairly soon - so far as I know, Rich is mostly caught up on doc.
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