Neowin Windows 8 app no longer updating for 5 days


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Wasn't sure where to report this, but the official Windows 8 Neowin app seems to have stopped getting updates since about 5 days ago.

 

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it just pulls down the same stories again. Latest story is the one about 4 Sony Experia phones no longer receiving updates.

 

Any ideas please?

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Wasn't sure where to report this, but the official Windows 8 Neowin app seems to have stopped getting updates since about 5 days ago.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it just pulls down the same stories again. Latest story is the one about 4 Sony Experia phones no longer receiving updates.

Any ideas please?

Happens with the windows phone app also.
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Got a response from Microsoft, the app will get an update sometime this week (hopefully) which also adds Windows 8.1 compatibility (and Store indexing) after which it should work fine again.

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Seems to be working again today Steven, thanks.. though I didn't get any app update..?

 

p.s. How do you get Microsoft to make apps for you...? I've been trying and mostly failing to write my own app for W8 and WP8 pulling a news feed from my gym's website and displaying it in an app, perhaps with a live tile and a notification of new news being posted. But I'm useless at it. Search for JCB HLC in the WP app store and you'll see what I mean lol.

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Seems to be working again today Steven, thanks.. though I didn't get any app update..?

 

p.s. How do you get Microsoft to make apps for you...? I've been trying and mostly failing to write my own app for W8 and WP8 pulling a news feed from my gym's website and displaying it in an app, perhaps with a live tile and a notification of new news being posted. But I'm useless at it. Search for JCB HLC in the WP app store and you'll see what I mean lol.

 

Do you tried? http://appstudio.windows.com/en-us

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Seems to be working again today Steven, thanks.. though I didn't get any app update..?

 

p.s. How do you get Microsoft to make apps for you...? I've been trying and mostly failing to write my own app for W8 and WP8 pulling a news feed from my gym's website and displaying it in an app, perhaps with a live tile and a notification of new news being posted. But I'm useless at it. Search for JCB HLC in the WP app store and you'll see what I mean lol.

Microsoft may have tweaked something, some of our RSS feeds went crazy during and after the update. Can confirm the live tile now updates properly. (y)

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Yep, that's what I used to make this app (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store/app/hlc-news/cf951f07-8b18-4912-af6f-390a1551f3c1): It's no great though... it has a basic RSS pull from the website, but none of the formatting from the news articles comes through ( http://jcbhlc.com) so you see tags and things when you open an article in the app. I also couldn't figure out how to get live times and notifications working through app studio, if indeed you ever can.

 

I love Microsoft... You can say that I am a proud fan boy ;)

 

I love them too, passionately. I got an Xbox One, Windows 8.1 PC, Surface Pro 3 and a Nokia Lumia 930.  Most people look forward to a week off because of the time off... I'm looking forward to having next week off to hear about Windows 9 lol  Proper sad... I'm almost as bad as Dot Matrix ;-)

 

Microsoft may have tweaked something, some of our RSS feeds went crazy during and after the update. Can confirm the live tile now updates properly. (Y)

 

Thanks for your efforts Steven, and again for renaming me a few weeks back.

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My live tile on Windows Phone 8.1 hasn't been working either. I've given it some time after the issues Steven was mentioning but it's still static. I've tried rebooting, unpinning and repinning the website. Still static.

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It's working for me this morning.. there are two right? :P Our own.. which is pinning Neowin to the start screen from Internet Explorer (which also includes the newslogo in the background) and the official app..

 

I have been informed that the app will be updated near the end of October by Microsoft.

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It's working for me this morning.. there are two right? :p Our own.. which is pinning Neowin to the start screen from Internet Explorer (which also includes the newslogo in the background) and the official app..

 

I have been informed that the app will be updated near the end of October by Microsoft.

In the past I just had the website pinned through IE.  I would put it as a wide tile and it would update.  It hasn't in a while.  I've had it happen that something like weather would stop updating and there was never a specific action I took to get it working again...

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