My (so far) favorite feed reader, Attensa had an auto-update today. It turned out to be an auto-downgrade, or should I say auto-disable? All I am getting now is post titles, article body blank, can’t even click to go to the source – have to pull up the config menu to figure out what the URL’s are.
I am not happy.
Update (5/2): As it turns out, newly dowloaded post come through with the full content – albeit with less attractive formatting than in the previous release, and I have to enable image dowloads to Outlook domain by domain – this was working properly in the previous release. The crappy (unreadable) posts were all downloaded between 10pm yesterday until just prior to the upgrade. What happened there is a mystery. 
Tags: attencrap, attensa, feedreader, rss, zoliblog
Zoli,
I’m curious as to why this happened as well. I was wondering if you could take a look in Attensa’s configuration application, check your enclosure downloading settings and what theme is selected or if you’re using Full Web Contents and send that my way. I can’t help but think your theme setting was effected somehow.
Thanks!
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for comning by:) The theme was Attensa, not Full Web, and I think it was the same prior to the upgrade. I changed it around a bit (tried all three), now it’s back to attensa, and the format is also back to what it used to be.
While you are here: another weird issue, but this started aboiut a month ago, so is not related to this upgrade is the way Updates to existing posts are handled. Oroginally posts once dloaded and read did not get downloaded again if the author changed them – now they do. That would be OK, the problem is that a lof of (seeminggly random) posts keep on reoccuring from time to time as “updated” when they really are not.
Thanks!
Zoli, do you mind supplying me with some feed addresses? You can send them to me at support@attensa.com. I’ve noticed something pesky with Google News that we’re looking at, and I’d like to see what it is about the feeds you’re having an issue with, it may be the same issue and it may be different, but either way it’s something we need to look at.
Also, glad to hear the feed formatting is fixed. We added some new theme capability and rearranged the file organization to keep things tidy moving forward, but there is a legacy theme, and it seems that sometimes the upgrade makes Attensa “forget” where the older theme files are. This is on my Top Ten list, so I’m going to log a ticket into our system for your incident of the issue 🙂