Doesnt work so well
Ive had it for 20 minutes and already have enough problems to make me want to go back to vienna or my ancient version of newsfire
* Can import OPML! Cmon guys, free ones can handle this.
* Manually managing RSS feeds is difficult and confusing ("RSS" account?) and lacks functionality
* Cant do animated gifs - add the imgur gallery and see what I mean. 1fps and seems to _never_ stop downloading. Horrible!
* Really stupid "make images span the whole width" but "enforce padding on text" design for reading. Great for silly design and food blogs, bad for real world.
* HUGE amounts of wasted space. Article list groups by day (why oh why!), lots of vertical wasted space, huge blank bars on the sides of articles, etc...
Old news reader shows 28 article headlines in the same space this uses for 8! Unbelievable.
Shows the blog title for every single item even when viewing a single blog (lack of attention to detail here is evident)
Its an app that NEEDS to run in a widescreen monitor so it can try to be "beautiful".
* Messes up horizontal scrolling/formating on blogs with code samples in them (I assume its doing some CSS tricks to format the article)
* Had to force quit, now I have two "RSS" accounts.
* Cant move feeds between local RSS accounts. So had to re-do all my work.
* Doesnt show you the URL the feed is pointing to, only lets you edit the name!
* No per-feed settings for fetch frequency and retention policies (hello, some feeds publish 20 times a day, some once a week)
* "Accounts" bar
* The UI is designed for an iPad, it seems
Really, I think if you are using this to integrate with some RSS service that watches all your traffic, then Im sure it works fine. If you like manually adding and managing your own feeds, it really falls down. Ancient freeware works better for that, sadly. I guess Im not using it "right", but it seems like a trendy UI applied to a basic product, with a corresponding loss of functionality and clarity.
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