Streamy Blog

Support: Internet Explorer 7, 8

While we launched the public beta without IE support, it was just a matter of ensuring that a few things work properly. We are still working to improve it, but we’re happy to support all of you using IE 7 and 8. Internet Explorer 6 requires additional hackery, so it will remain unsupported for the time being. However, you may still experience some glitches in 7 or 8, which we’d love to hear about.

Safe Recommendations: No More NSFW

We’ve played with various ways to take care of content that enough people don’t care to see: pornography and whatnot. We’re actually controlling what goes into the stream now, so its contents are pretty safe. Some folks have asked that we remove this stream, but trust us: Its content and functionality will improve as we grow.

Faster: Automatic Stream Updating

There are a couple ways to read a stream, one is the full stream another is as a widget. Both will automatically update now, and items pop into streams as they update. This does not change the general behavior of a stream, but means you can watch a whole page of widgets update in just about real-time.

More Real-estate: Hide Sidebars

Depending on how you use Streamy, the sidebars can be valuable navigational tools, or can take space from precious widgets.  You can hide both sidebars to create more real-estate, but they will come in handy There are handles on the left and right: click them to toggle the sidebars.

Compatibility: Imports

We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure that we can import OPML files and feeds from various sources.  Several bugs have been squashed, but please let us know if you experience problems with any imports, OPML specifically. We’d love to see the actual OPML file too, so feel free to email us at info@streamy.com. Thanks!

Google Talk in Google Chrome

Our Google Talk client was having problems with Chrome.  This was due to a conflict between Streamy software and Gears on Chrome, because they both use the name “google” for the service.  It has been fixed, though we appear to be having trouble connecting to the service anyway. We’re working on it!

We’re always working to improve Streamy from bottom to top. There are a lot of moving parts, so the more information we have the better - be sure to share problems, thoughts, and suggestions. While we don’t always immediately answer on Get Satisfaction, we do see them and use that information, so thank you. Keep it coming: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/streamy

Thanks!

Don

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