After updating your iPad to iOS 4.2 you’ll notice that Paper Pile crashes when updating feeds. This happens because of a bug at the XML-RPC framework the app uses. I’ll fix this and submit the update to Apple as soon as possible. I apologize for the time you cannot use Paper Pile.
Apple just approved Paper Pile’s update 1.3. With the focus on stability and interface optimizations it should solve most issues users where reporting. You can see screenshots of this version here.
Most suggestions I received have been integrated. Instapaper support, better full story views and “more images” are just a few of them.
Please feel free to send me your opinion about it.
Just after midnight in Germany – I am proud to announce that today more than 1.000 requests from new users have been handled. All in all nearly 17.000 connections to Paper Pile’s backend server were logged in just one day. For comparison only, the best day so far had 4.000 requests.
I just submitted the minor update 1.2.1. It addresses issues users reported. Most important, it improves stability and performance. The dashboard was cleaned up a bit with the introduction of some kind of “management mode”.
See screenshots for a first impression. Hopefully, the update get’s approved soon.
Paper Pile’s update 1.2 has been submitted to Apple for approval. It includes a lot of enhancements and new features. The most important change is the new page-orientated management. You now create pages and add feeds to them which makes it easier to customize your personal newspaper.
Navigation is now supported by preview thumbnails. Every page can be “paged” down and up to read older articles. Articles now get arranged with less gaps and use the space much more efficient.
When adding new feeds you now have the choice to use the new feed browser which lets you navigate to the feed you want to use. It indicates available feeds with a little symbol next to the URL input field. When you tap on it you will see a list with available feeds which can be used with just another tap.
Paper Pile now uses SQLite as storage subsystem which improves performance dramatically.
See the screenshots section for more impressions.
Please contact me if you have further suggestions, ideas or problems.