A week ago we had a pretty big day. The reaction to PostRank and the new Google Reader extension was fantastic. Thank you!

In one week we’ve served up 5 million PostRanks! (We’re coming after your numbers, Golden Arches…) :)

Of course, when lots of people start poking at your stuff, quirks and bugs will be found. We do the best we can before we launch, but hey, there are a lot more of you than there are of us. (We appreciate your impressive powers of observation.)

And so this week we’ve fixed a bunch of things and added functionality directly resulting from user requests.

The highlights:

• PostRank on/off toggle: Some folks have reported that having PostRank running is slowing down their Google Reader experience. While we work on figuring out why that is (the latest version should actually make things faster), if, for some unfathomable reason, you’d like to temporarily turn off PostRank, you can do it in one click (checked is on, unchecked is off). The toggle is located in the left Google Reader pane, right above Add Subscription.

• Itemings remaining with unread appearance after being selected/read: Intermittently reported issue that should be fine and dandy and fading the appearance of read items now.
• Pressing Ctrl and clicking on an item opens a new tab and forces focus shift to it: Yeah, I hate that, too. It doesn’t happen anymore. New tabs open in the background and you can click on over to them at your leisure.
• Duplicate stories in a feed cause the analysis to hang: This one doesn’t happen often, but it’s just one of those little quirks that can be annoying. Anyway, no more eternal spinner, just sweet, juicy PostRanks.

In one additional note, it was brought to our attention that there was an intermittent problem with the J and K shortcut keys in Google Reader ceasing to function. We’ve looked at the code, and we don’t touch that functionality anywhere, so we suspect it’s something to do with the Greasemonkey compiler. (Unfortunately, we don’t control that…)

If you’ve been seeing this issue and don’t currently use Greasemonkey, we recommend installing it and then trying our Google Reader extension for Greasemonkey and seeing if that helps. Give us a holler if you’ve been seeing it, too. You can either leave a comment in the Get Satisfaction queue that mentions it or drop me an email: melanie@aiderss.com.