Yup, the feed-squirrel has been away on his holidays (or vacation to the Americans) and has come back looking fresher than ever.
A few minutes ago the new-look feed-squirrel.com was launched, adding a slightly new layout, and some new functionality designed to make the site better for you, the users.
First off, the sites a little wider now, mainly due to the fact that not many of you seem to use 800×600 anymore, which means I can use the space, and show more at once. To further aid this, and reduce the amount of clicks that a user has to do, we've ditched the item pages, and instead replaced it with an AJAX-y expanding story function. Clicking an item title takes you straight to it, whereas clicking the item text itself pulls in the rest of the item for you to use.
Now, if you are a keen blogger and are aggregated by feed-squirrel.com, you can now get yourself some click reports from the watched feeds page. This will tell you every item feed-squirrel has aggregated, and how many click-throughs each story has had.
So, you're probably thinking that's not much… Well, at the moment you'd be fairly right, unless you look at the back end. Feed-Squirrel.com is now running the latest release of Model-Glue:Unity by Joe Rinehart. This gives us the flexibility to add a whole raft of new features which are waiting in the wings for some free time to come along so I can build them. As these features come along, I'll announce them here.
So, have a play, some bits have changed, most of it's much the same, but now the squirrels wearing a nice new pair of sneakers, and can't wait to try them out….
