Re: [Feedreader-development] Biggest problem in feedreader

[Karsten H. <mai...@kh...>]

Hi,

Toomas Toots wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> My hope in Feedreader has raised again. Bugfixes and stuff... :) Big 
> thanks to developers.
> 
> I use Feedreader daily myself. And that leads us to my biggest problem. 
> I have about 60 feeds subscribed. But sometimes GETting some feeds does 

60 feeds?!?! Are you a newsjunkie? (just kidding ;)

> not work. Webserver does not give error but only stays in status 
> "Connected". So it's quite common that i go to work in the morning and 

Is this the same server everytime?

> see that those progressbars in lower right corner are partly green and 

You have green progressbars?!?

> updating progress is not ended. But if I press "update" button, it does 
> not do anything (because software knows/thinks that update is going on). 
> Only possibility is to restart feedreader.
> 
> I think that feedreader has to have some kind of timeout management. So 
> that thread could not have more than 5 minutes off running time for 
> example. I'm not quite at home with threads programming and stopping them.
> 
> Has anyboyd some neat ideas? :)
> 

I will examine how the update works and look for the best way to 
implement such a timeout management.

Greetings,
Karsten (khoffrath)