Why can’t NewsGator count?

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It’s crap like this that keeps me switching NewsGator back to its Classic Reader. (Hint: look at the page count on the lower-right corner of the screenshot.)

10 of 7?!

In their rush to jump on the AJAXified Web-2.0 bandwagon, NewsGator neglected to see if their product could, you know, count properly. This bug has existed for at least four months - hell, it’s existed as long as the new ‘beta’ reader has - and it’s very simple to reproduce. Here’s how you do it.

0) Turn on the ‘mark items read as I view them’ option.
1) Click on a folder.
2) Start reading by using the ‘next page’ buttons.

By about the second or third page, the page counts will be horribly out of sync.

You had a good thing going for you, NG - why’d you have to go and screw it up with this crappy ‘beta’ reader?

One Response to “Why can’t NewsGator count?”

  1. Greg Reinacker Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    Eek…I’m pretty sure the engineering team thought this one was fixed. I know I haven’t seen it myself in a while. In any case, I’ve passed this along to get fixed ASAP - thanks for pointing it out!