In The Pursuit Of A RSS Reader

Yzabel / October 29, 2005

I’m posting this entry from Flock, just to test the blog function in it. Believe it or not, I hadn’t done that yet (although I’d say the only real interest with it for the moment would be to get the WordPress.com account, if there’s still someone around who hasn’t gotten one). So far, things seem to work well, except that… “where are my categories?!” I wonder if I’ll be able to pick one later on. Hmm.

The other new of the moment is that I think I’ve finally set on a non-web RSS feeds reader. To be honest, SharpReader and FeedDemon, as hyped as they are, don’t cut it for me. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s a question of looks, of “feeling” with them. A software can be extremely powerful, if I don’t have the right feeling with it (and this has nothing to do with “looking like an OS X interface” or anything of the same kind), I won’t be at ease with it. Alright, I also didn’t want to settle down with something I needed to pay, I admit; there are way enough pieces of software I’ve paid for, and I’m starting to grow broke.

Thus, I’ve been using RSS Reader since the beginning of the week, and it seems to do the job well enough for me (BottomFeeder was nice, but getting on my nerves, with some new posts it’d pick ten times a day and crashing every hour or so). It’s also been able to read feeds that BottomFeeder couldn’t; don’t ask me why, I just know it couldn’t. The only not-so-funny thing is that there hasn’t been any newer version in the past months. However, I don’t know if this is really a problem per se.

I think I’ve pretty much toured enough readers as of now. I’ll still keep an eye open, though.

EDIT: Indeed, no way of choosing categories. Argh.blogging, flock, rss, rss+reader

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  • Aref

    You can try with this matrix : 33 web based rss reader and 65 local based reader !http://vtech.canalblog.com/archives/2005/10/25/927489.html

  • James Robertson

    There was a fairly serious bug in the network libs we use in BottomFeeder that probably explains some of your issues. You might try grabbing the updates (use the update button on the toolbar) and restart.

  • Chris Messina

    Rest assured, comments are coming to Flock in the next release. The reason why I resisted was because there is no way to create a category in Flock because of limitations in the blogging APIs (you have to go to your blog’s admin UI to add and edit categories). As such, this was unacceptable since people new to blogging wouldn’t have any categories and wouldn’t necessary know that they have to go to their blog’s admin control panel to set them up.For better or worse, we went with tags only, since all blogging tools support them (since we append the tags to the body of the post). It’s not ideal either, but we knew it would work and we wouldn’t have any UI in our editor that some folks (whose blogging tools *don’t* support categories) couldn’t use.Alas, we received enough feedback that people wanted categories that we’re going to be bringing them to the next release! There you go. 😉

  • Yzabel

    Thanks for the comments :)I’m going to update BottomFeeder to test this (I admit it was some time I hadn’t done so…), and wait for the next Flock release for more testing fun then.

  • Nels

    I like Bloglines myself. Webapps rule!

  • Yzabel

    I’ve tried some of them, too—been using Bloglines and Rojo alternatively, for when I “need” to read my feeds when I’m not at home. Idon’t use them as often as I do with installed aggregators, though.

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