Reader Database Update

The update of the FeedJournal Reader database is now complete, and we are happy to report that it’s blazing fast. This marks the last step of the server updates, and I hope that you enjoy the performance boost!

Now Running on Faster Servers

FeedJournal is now running on a new host. We have redirected the feedjournal.com domain to point to the new servers so you should all soon run against more powerful machines.

The only thing that still runs against the old server is the FeedJournal Reader database, which will be migrated tomorrow.

All systems are go, and I hope you will enjoy the faster servers!

Hosting Issues

FeedJournal is currently experiencing intermittent hosting issues, which we are working together with the hosting provider to resolve. Our sincerest apologies for any inconveniences that this are causing you. FeedJournal is also looking into switching providers to find the quickest solution to the problems.

New Hosting Platform

FeedJournal’s hosting provider has upgraded their servers and users are typically reporting a snappier experience now. However, a few clients are experiencing problems to generate newspapers with the Publisher interface.

According to the server logs, there are errors due to some fonts that are no longer available. So, if you have trouble to generate a newspaper, please check that you are using fonts that are available in the dropdown menu for each font.

How TerPress Uses FeedJournal

TerPress uses FeedJournal to generate weekly printable newspapers. The PDF newspaper is then freely hosted and embedded on the web using Issuu (other free options include doXtop and Scribd). TerPress is also printed and distributed to institutions, schools, universities, libraries and public locations.
TerPress is an Italian magazine that deals with culture, society, morality, and information on new contemporary languages. It has an editorial staff of 20 people and a constant stream of new visitors.

Only Publish Fresh Articles

Up till today, FeedJournal Publisher users was limited to specifying a date, without time, when filtering articles from their feeds. For high-traffic feeds this was not inefficient. Also, when automating newspapers publishing, a hardcoded date is not appropriate.

Now, you can specify how old articles to include in the newspaper by entering an number of hours. For example, to include all feed articles published in the last 24 hours, you enter “–24h”. It’s as simple as that.

Let There Be Links

One of the most requested features since the inception of FeedJournal has been hyperlink support in the generated PDF newspaper.

Now it is available!

Users of both the free FeedJournal Reader service and the commercial FeedJournal Publisher can today select the Show web-style links-setting to render links as blue underlined text. This is the default setting. Users who are primarily interested in a traditional paper reading experience can unselect the check box to hide the links. Regardless of this setting, links are always available in the PDF, and the reader sees the URL targets by hovering the linked text with the mouse pointer.

In addition to links inside the article, clicking the headline links to the web page where the full article is published. And in the byline, the feed name links to the web site where the articles are published. Article and feed links are always rendered as normal text, not as HTML links.

In addition to the new links, today’s update also includes better extraction of metadata for Atom feeds.

The new link feature has required large modifications of the code base, and much effort has gone into testing. However, should you run into any feed or articles where you notice abnormalities, please report them to support@feedjournal.com.