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After working with several users who were reporting poorly crawled feeds, we've discovered the latest version of MySQL (our database server of choice) has a bug in a certain area of its operation, and this bug tripped in when we did our database upgrade just over a week ago. This caused some feeds not to get updated when they needed to be. We've now 'fixed the glitch', as it were, and lots of feeds are getting added to the crawlers it seems. Things will start returning to normal gradually over the next 24 hours, as that'll probably be the biggest glut of feeds to be processed due to this bug. We apologize for the inconvenience!

Hurrah, we now have improved support for Flickr. If you subscribe to any of Flickr’s RSS 2.0 feeds, you can use the ENCLOSUREURL tag to get access to the thumbnails inside the Flickr feeds. We've also created a new default template called "Flickr Slides" to help you out.

Simply create a digest using a Flickr RSS 2.0 feeds, use the Flickr Slides template, and you'll get a digest like this:

You can, of course, tweak the template to your perfection. The above example uses the RSS feed for the 'yellow' tag on Flickr, by the way

We've come to a decision on how we're going to organize our infrastructure for the next release of FeedDigest, and we wanted to give you a rough idea of how we see the transition occurring.

First off, we're setting up a beta site that will showcase aspects of our new interface and control panel. It will be based on the current FeedDigest "back end" though, so is really a beta of our new control panel and interface improvements. This is due this month.

At the same time we'll be setting up a second set of servers and rolling out a whole new backend.. a "FeedDigest 2", if you will. When we feel it’s ready for action, we'll be moving the beta over to the new backend and migrating all paying customers to the new set of servers. We will also upgrade the first set of servers (for free users) to the new version.

This means paying users and 'free' users will be on separate servers, so that we can make sure the service paying customers receive is not impeded, while having the 'free' servers as a backup plan. We're not planning to ditch the free plans at all, quite the contrary, but we're also aware that paying customers do demand a certain added level of service, and by keeping two separate sets of FeedDigest servers, we can ensure performance is increased for everybody.