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I can use Syndirella again!

Anyone who's been reading here knows that Syndirella keeps losing my data. I guess the author realized that this is a problem, because he took lots of steps to stop that from happening again in the most recent build

Syndirella automatically backs up its data file, and automatically loads the backup if loading of the latest version failed. Also, when saving data, it saves to a temporary location first, and replaces the real file with saved data only after the save has been successfully completed. This greatly reduces the probability of losing all the Syndirella subscription data in case of a crash.

Plus, he explains why some of the crashes may have been happening in the first place:

The changes to the locking code introduced in the previous build were incorrect, causing people to have deadlocks and other problems. These problems are now corrected.

Hey, and he realized this problem too^[1]

The handling of the isPermaLink attribute of the <guid> element was totally broken.

And awesome, this sounds like a feature I've been wanting, where you can view a list of all new items in a feed in one screen rather than having to view each item individually:

Reviewing today's items: Two things are coming here. First, Syndirella will probably get the ability to show an aggregated list of all posts in a group (or in all subscribed feeds). Second, it will be possible to mark an item as "permanent" and to see the list of all items with this mark. But both of these will have to wait until 0.92.

And better ways to organize feeds is coming in version .92:

Feed sorting: Coming in version 0.92. I do not want to implement something temporary now, because I would have to scrape this code after 0.91 is released and the new feed list implementation goes in.

I can go back to using Syndirella now! I've been depressed about the situation

Footnotes:
[1]: I really should have been submitting bug reports to him, but I figured since it's such an early version he probably knew about a lot of these problems, and many other problems I haven't even noticed

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