Friday, February 24, 2012

Pain points on Pulse newsreader

Pulse newsreader came preinstalled on the kindle fire I got for Christmas (thanks, Sam!).  On the whole I like it, but a few glaring bugs and omissions really hold it back.
  • Bug: after pressing the star button on one post, it gets stuck for all the other posts on the blog.  AFAICT, you can only star one post per blog per session.  Clunky.
  • Bug: when I'm offline---I do a lot of my blog reading on the bus---Pulse doesn't seem to remember which blog posts I've read.  I read it, swipe it, and then next time I'm on the grid it seems to pop right back up.  I can't tell if it's doing this all the time or just a lot of the time, but it's a pain to hit the same articles two, three times, and up.
  • Feature request: I love being able to post to twitter with two clicks.  (This is nice for Pulse too, because they get their name in the link.)  Can you let me queue tweets in offline mode, then sync with twitter once I get back on the grid?
  • Feature request: alternatively, can you provide an API to starred items?  If I could get at those (say as RSS), I could automate the posting to twitter myself.
Pulse, are you listening?  Fix these and I will be your friend forever.  Until then, I'm looking suggestions on blog readers...

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