Time For Me To Abandon Thunderbird
Well, the RSS Feedreader anyway. I love Thunderbird and I really don’t have any gripes about it. There are a number of features which I love and even with this RSS problem, I’d take it over Outlook anyday of the week. And now with 1.0 released, it was so nice being able to check my feeds while I’m checking my mail.
All was well for a while. I’d check my feeds, I’d see who updated and who didn’t and I didn’t need to open my browser or another piece of software - life was good - that is until I started getting duplicates. I believe it happened when the number of feeds I subscribed to went just over 40ish and the next thing I know, Thunderbird is downloading duplicate posts 1, 2, 5+ times for each feed.
Not only that, I set it to only download the excerpt instead of loading the website and for whatever reason, it decides to disregard that setting - usually happens on the duplicate feeds and only for certain websites. It’s very picky about that.
I know I’m not the only person experiencing this because this is apparently a known bug. At least feed reading life was sweet for a few months.
So now, I’m looking for another solution for my feed reading needs. I would love something I could integrate with Thunderbird so I can continue reading my favorite blogs while checking email, but if I have to use another bit of software, then so be it.
Paul Short wrote,
Hi Teli,
I use FeedReader and it has no problem updating over 200 feeds every 30 minutes. It’s free too
Comment Link | January 30th, 2005 at 2:48 amMartin wrote,
Teli,
Have you considered using Sage? It integrates into your Firefox browser window.
I believe that it has been requested, but I’m not sure if Thunderbird support has been implemented yet. Maybe you know about this…?
Comment Link | January 30th, 2005 at 8:48 amteli wrote,
Thanks guys
@Paul - welcome to my small piece of the blogosphere, it’s always nice to have “the big names” drop by - makes me feel special :D. Free is always good. I just downloaded it and added it to my queue - and that brings the total to 5 so far and am currently testing 2 - Abilon and FeedDemon. Next week I plan to test a couple more. So far they are neck and neck, however, I am getting to like Abilon and the price tag is great (free)
@Martin - I actually have Sage and it’s quite nifty, my only problem is I never remember to use it. Each time I open up my browser, I close it before I open up Sage whereas with Thunderbird, it was “inline” with my email. I like to utilize as much screen real estate as possible and I would continue to use my “live bookmarks” - however, it’s actually turned into the equivalent of two columns in my bookmarks folder (I think there’s a hundred feeds in there), so I had to abandon that.
So far, using YAPoS (Yet Another Piece of Software) hasn’t been too bad. I like the fact that my reader can be minimized to the taskbar when not in use. I’m sure I’ll end up putting a review on here when I’m done testing and have actually chosen one.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know (free - meaning I don’t have to spend any money, and I don’t have to see any flashing blinking neon signs, etc. - is always good).
Comment Link | January 30th, 2005 at 11:18 amPaul Short wrote,
Awww shucks Teli, you’re making me blush.
Comment Link | January 30th, 2005 at 7:05 pmteli wrote,
wouldn’t say it if I didn’t mean it
Comment Link | January 30th, 2005 at 7:18 pm