Feedly’s weeklong slowdown: a bug, not AI ambition

Feedly’s web app went almost unusable for a swath of power users last week. The company traced the outage to a software bug, not the AI features it has been touting.

The slowdown began on Monday, persisted through Thursday, and forced some users to abandon the RSS aggregator entirely. Feedly’s engineering team posted an admission on its status page, citing a regression introduced …

The incident matters because Feedly has positioned its AI‑driven summarization as a differentiator in a crowded feed market. When the core service falters, the AI veneer looks like a distraction rather than a value ad…