Boost your feeds!

Our servers are dealing with millions of feeds like the ones you read every day. We have to have this smart mechanism which balances them and fetches every feed at different interval. This interval is calculated from many factors and is aimed to provide you with the best possible experience without risking our infrastructure.

However you may want certain feeds to update more often, because they are very important to you, you have set rules to alert you for certain topics, or just because they post way too often.

Today we are releasing a new feature which will give you the opportunity to boost those feeds. Boosting means those feeds will update at 10 minute intervals.

To do this you simply need to go to Preferences -> Subscriptions and look for the rocket icons. Clicking on them will enable or disable the polling interval boost. You will notice that there are also stopwatch icons there. They indicate that the feed is updated in realtime via the PubSubHubbub protocol, so you don't need to boost them. You are already receiving articles immediately after they are posted from those feeds.




This feature is available to all users, but with some limitations. Basic users can boost one feed, Plus users have the opportunity to boost 10 feeds, and Professional users can go up to 30.

You can always use the Feed Information dialog to find out how often a certain feed is updated. You can even use the Crawler log to see the actual updates from the last week. There's also a shortcut in this dialog to the Boost feature.

• Deactivated feeds can now be used within rules, which means that you can now disable the feeds you use only for rules and keep them away from your subscription tree and unread counters.
• In Pane View, the titles of articles will no longer be limited to one line. Thanks to our Hungarian translator Zoltán Wacha for his solution.
• Fixed a bug when opening InoReader from a browser extension which prevented you to use the Mark all as read function until you change the current section.
• Fixed a bug with the new option to show feed URLs in Preferences -> Subscriptions. Sometimes the option was not obeyed.

Our last two weeks were bit more quiet regarding updates. We were working hard on a serious upgrade to our server architecture. The front-end web servers now have around 5 times the capacity compared to previous week and we also made upgrades to component redundancy to even further decrease the possibility of downtimes. We have used the opportunity to enable Keep-Alive connections in our front-end. They require a lot of additional resources at the web servers, but should deliver better experience over higher latency networks.