April 20, 2010

Instead of burning one down in honor of 4/20 we decided to be productive and announce some new Feed My Inbox features! Along with a number of back-end improvements, there are four new customer-facing features you may be interested in. Here's a rundown of each:

1. 6-hour Frequency Option

If you want updates somewhere in-between real-time and daily, we've added a new frequency option that will check every six hours and email you when there are new items available. If you have a paid account, simply login and edit a feed to see the option:

6-hour Frequency

2. Pause Your Feeds

If you ever leave on vacation or wish to pause ALL Feed My Inbox notifications temporarily, you can do so very easily. Visit the "feed settings" page in your account and there is a "Pause Your Feeds" link. One click and it's done, then click it again to make them active.

Pause Feeds

3. Brightwurks.com Blog is Free!

Someone mentioned this to us a while back and we thought this would be fun. If you subscribe to our blog (Brightwurks.com), it no longer counts against your feed count. So go crazy and add 6, 26 or 76 feeds to your account! If one of them is ours you won't have to upgrade.

4. Unsubscribe from Multiple Feeds

Up until now it's been rather difficult to unsubscribe from multiple feeds at one time. You have to click the unsubscribe link for each one, which can be tedious if you have a lot of feeds. Now all you need to do is select multiple feeds in your account, then click the "Edit Selected" button on the top. There is now an "unsubscribe from selected" link on the top that you can click and instantly unsubscribe.

Unsubscribe from Multiple

Thanks for all the feature suggestions folks! We're listening and are working hard to keep 'em coming.

Apr 20 2010

1. Joe @ 9:47PM

This is great stuff, guys. Thanks for listening!

I take full credit for the free Brightwurks blog idea. :)

Apr 20 2010

2. Joe @ 9:51PM

My next request: email-per-post.

Jul 8 2010

3. Paul @ 9:05AM

Is 6 hours a joke? There are technologies to get this in realtime!

Jul 8 2010

4. Nick @ 11:38AM

You must not be familiar with our service, Paul. We already offer real-time as an option as well. We got a lot of requests for emails less frequent than real-time, which is why we added something in the middle.

Also, the screenshot in the post clearly shows that real-time is also an option. Thanks!

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