Comments on: Best RSS Feed Reader?

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:58:21 +0000

I have about 1,200. The problem with Bloglines and Firefox is it takes too long for the page to load. Especially if I edit or delete a subscription.

I’m trying out Newz Crawler right now and so far I’m pretty happy with it. I’ll write more later.

By: StickyC

StickyC — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:39:11 +0000

How many subscriptions do you have anyhow? I’ve got about a thousand subscriptions and have no issues with Bloglines. They’re all organized into folders, however.

By: Alex Dutulescu

Alex Dutulescu — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:20:41 +0000

This the best I’ve tried.

Have a loot at http://www.rssreader.com/

By: Phillip Renouf

Phillip Renouf — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:46:33 +0000

RSS Bandit is what I use. It is a great little program that is quick and has lots of great features.

One of the greatest features is being able to upload your blog list to an FTP server so you can blog at work and at home without having to re-read items.

http://www.rssbandit.org

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:46:41 +0000

I’m using Newzcrawler for both RSSfeeds and usenet. Has built in ‘Blog This’ too.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:20:25 +0000

I used amphetadesk, then FeedDeamon, then I found Blogmatrix’s Jaeger. Jaeger is a bit of an odd beast, but I’ve tried several things since (Omea most recently, also newsgator) and I keep coming back to Jaeger.

By: Aguafuertes

Aguafuertes — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:40:23 +0000

John, let me know whether RSSOwl did make it for you or not. I like the programm and have been suggesting it to some friends, but no one ever had such a heavy load to manage. Really interests me …

By: Eric Rines

Eric Rines — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 04:24:46 +0000

I use Feeddemon as well and love it. I’m an extremely satisfied customer and am happy Nick B. makes such amazing software!

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:18:14 +0000

On the question about about syncing. The only one I know of is NewsGator for Outlook. It let’s you sync with the online version, and I think between machines.

I also have to comment on system resources. I only have 380 feeds I check, not 1000, but even still aggregators that automatically download can really sap system and bandwidth resources. That’s one reason I like Lektora and Sage. You have to proactively tell them to check.

By: Teja

Teja — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:50:37 +0000

Thanks for notifying me of RSSOwl Aguafuertes,

When I’m on Linux, I use Liferea but I wanted something else and I’ve tried one other, but I wasn’t at all happy with it.

So I will give a try with RSSOwl (first on windows then on linux)

I currently use FeedDemon on Windows btw and with around 50 feeds (yes not many at all!) I’m happy with it, and of course on linux I’m with Liferea.

I was also going to give Akregator (Linux only) a try but I will try Owl first

By: AndrÃ©

AndrÃ© — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:59:35 +0000

I can recommend SharpReader and RSS Bandit.

By: Kevin Haryett

Kevin Haryett — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:50:19 +0000

I use RSS Bandit. It works well and has a lot of choices on updating your feeds.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:44:08 +0000

Do any of the mentioned desktop readers have a way of storing the read messages centrally so that if you read from the office, you won’t be re-reading the same entries when you get home?

That would be ideal.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:43:09 +0000

at first i used the feedreader but now iÂ´m using thunderbird and itÂ´s a good alternative.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:04:26 +0000

After using Sharpreader for at least a year, I recently switched to bloglines. The only drawback on bloglines for me, of any note, is that it only checks URLs once an hour. I switched because I got tired of syncing in my mind what I’d read on a feed reader at work and what I’d read at home. Anyhow, give sharpreader a try.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:56:02 +0000

I have two suggestions. Sage, the extension for Firefox, which I used for a long time. And Lektora from Lektora.com. Although it works within the browser it isn’t web-based and, I found out recently, does great offline too (everything is cached in GZIP files). I’ve written a couple reviews of it on my site recently.

By: Paul2

Paul2 — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:48:00 +0000

I use sharpreader, and haven’t found any problems with it. I haven’t tried RSSOwl or FeedDemon though, so I dunno how they stack up…

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:13:25 +0000

I have echo the comments of the previous poster who suggested FeedDemon – It really is great software. It now features podcast support, it features an extensible newpaper viewing format, and it it fast. The author is responsive and the software has an active user community. Use the demo for 30 days and see what you think.

-adam

By: John

John — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:24:01 +0000

Thanks Aguafuertes. I am downloading RSSOwl now. The interface looks nice.

Brandon, I’m going to try to stay away from web based aggregators. I have a fast connection to the Internet but Firefox seems slow to handle pages with lots of data on it.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:13:40 +0000

I only have about 100-150 feeds, so I don’t know if it’ll work for you, but I use Feed On Feeds. It’s a centralized web-based reader, so you can get to it from many computers and not worry about re-reading articles, and such.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedonfeeds/

By: Aguafuertes

Aguafuertes — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:08:37 +0000

RSSOwl is my reader of choice. Reached 1.0 status just recently and was Sourceforge project of the month. Never had any performance problems, but then I might not have as many feeds as you do. There is a “Blog News” feature (which I have never used), so give it a try.

Good thing is that the developer is very fast and always open for new feature proposals.

By: John

John — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:06:26 +0000

I looked at FeedDemon although I haven’t used yet. I didn’t see that FeedDemon had any different features than a lot of the free readers. I’ll try the trial version and see.

By: Dan Bowling

Dan Bowling — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:57:17 +0000

I use FeedDemon, it is amazing. I notice it updates pretty quick (after you change the settings to allow it to update more blogs at once.) It even has the option to make firefox an internal browser within the program (or externally)