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It’s been a long time since I used FeedLounge and I’m sad to see the doors closing. It was truely a great app, maybe not the best service but the functionality was everything you’d need out of an online RSS reader.
After hearing I commented on Alex’s site:
Sadly I think the only logical option would be to opensource the project. For everyone to use on their own server and help contribute to fix the bugs and increase the overall functionality. Then…
Seems Google finally fixed all the things I hated about their Google Reader.
* New Interface
* Unread counts
* Mark all as read
I played with it for the last 10-15 minutes and all I have to say is wow. I thought Feedlounge was awesome. Yet again I have to reassess what RSS reader I use.
I dropped Feedlounge and I just bought NetNewsWire. Since I’m always on a mac now I don’t have to rely on a web based RSS reader anymore I had to rethink my RSS usability, I really like FL but the recent departure of Alex King just made me look around.
I really like the new beta, thanks Jason. The new combined view is a lot better, a little buggy but is still worth it. Having NewGator sync my two clients is also awesome,…
alexking.org: Blog > I’ve Left FeedLounge
What a tragedy not having [Alex] on FL anymore. I really had a lot of respect for the product because [he] knew [was] behind it. I also understand [he does not want] to put [his] name on a product like FL right now because of quality. As all FL users know there are some issues, issues that we probably all just deal with because we love the product so much. And while we can do that…
The “SOG� Release : FeedLounge
We’ve introduced TagThruâ„¢ in this release. TagThruâ„¢ takes any item tags you add in FeedLounge and also adds them to your account in a tagging/bookmarking service.
I can now just tag feeds in Feedlounge and they go straight to del.icio.us. The best new feature; outside of the speedboost, colored tags and it updating more frequently.
I have to say FeedLounge is going off right now, in a good way.
all of the past issues that I’ve had are gone. The speed issues are gone, it’s almost a desktop client now. Feed Updating has extremely improved on everything, the biggest loser updated in 15 minutes. Tagging and deleted issues, as minor as they were, have been solved.
Great job guys, keep it up, I now know my purchase was way worth it.
“Besides standard feed reading features, FeedLounge offers a number of unique features like tagging and flagging items, full keyboard control and access from any computer (with a modern browser)” Been an alpha user for a while now and I love it.
Thanks for the link Alex. It’s pleasant to see someone of your stature actually read/come across my blog and reference it.
As an alpha user I love feedlounge, even with the slow temperament of the system I can’t stop using it. The UI is just so wonderful. And that UI, I could imagine creates the some if not a lot of the load on the server.
And my worst fears, like you said about bloglines; is feedlounge going to get better or worse? I…
Google Reader was just released today and I am thoroughly disappointed. I thought the developers would release something similar to feedlounge, something easy to use while giving great functionality. Google reader does neither.
The bad:
The UI is horrible; the “lens” feature is…um…cheesy looking.
The labels are a cool feature but they’re on what looks like the subscription admin panel.
They need to adopt a three column view. Maybe a greasemonky script would help.
The good:
Like Feedlounge it is online.
Way faster then feedlounge.
Gmail integration.
Podcast support. It…
I think those 3 iTunes subscribers are me. I don’t know about feedlounge since it should only count as 1 but it would be cool to see 3 people from that service subscribe. Why didn’t I do feeddemon earlier?
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