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May 15, 2006
NetNewsWire and NewsGator
I’d been looking forward to the new release of NetNewsWire. Now that it’s owned by NewsGator, they’ve added synchronization with that company’s web-based feed reader. NNW has supported a sort of synchronization with Bloglines for a while: it was able to subscribe to a Bloglines feed that happened to be one of the feeds that you’d subscribed to first there. Kinda confusing, and it was awkward to have to first subscribe to something new in Bloglines, then remember to subscribe to that Bloglines subscription at home in NNW.
So now NNW synchs properly with NewsGator’s site (and you get a 2-year subscription for free as a registered NNW owner). That means that if I unsubscribe from something at home in NNW, it dissappears from NewsGator, and vice versa, which is great. Unfortunately, NewsGator is sloooowww. Very slow. Worse, its listings of entries are poorly designed, and it has some strange interaction behaviors.
For instance, clicking a folder of feeds in Bloglines displays the unread contents of that folder and un-bolds the folder, indicating it’s been read. NewsGator shows the entries, but leaves the folder name bold, and expands the folders contents. The entries seem not to be marked as read until you click on another folder. Much of the time, bolded folder or feed names therefore don’t contain unread entries, but rather entries you’re currently reading. It feels sluggish, a step behind.
Posted by Andrew at May 15, 2006 11:18 AM
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