net news wire sucks

I thought I'd love this software; everyone else does. And the UI is pretty good. But it keeps forgetting my entry-sorting preferences; it gets confused if I have identically-named feeds with different URLs; and it seems to be updating erratically, suddenly finding old posts that I know have been online for a few days. There's no way that this many different RSS feeds that I'm subscribed to have simultaneously become screwed up in the last couple of days — it's got to be the reader.

But that's just an irritating recent issue. Far worse is a long-term but difficult-to-spot bug I've been having wherein NNW occasionally loses a feed entirely, transmuting it into a clone of another one. After an initial honeymoon I'm being forced to conclude that this program can't even perform its core function. It kinda blows, and I'm surprised to have so many problems with a well-established program. I guess paying for software was a bad idea after all.

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Use Vienna!

 

I'll give it another look. The last time I was shopping for an RSS reader I was underwhelmed by Vienna, but that may have been because at the time I was convinced I wanted an RSS app that would sync with a web-based reader. NNW can do that, but I've never actually used the feature.

 

I keep telling you--Newsfire!

 

Another vote for Vienna.

 

Hmm, that's weird. I've never seen this kind of behavior with NNW before, and I've been using it since 2002 (though I did switch to NewsFire for a brief six month period). What kind of numbers are you putting through it? I have 379 feeds and, currently, 57,557 unread articles. How did you import them in? Are you running the 3.x alpha, or the 2.1.1 stable?

Forgive me, I just kind of make it my personal mission to troubleshoot for other Mac developers :-)

 

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