Roy, I had this *exact* experience about 2 weeks ago: I installed RssBandit and thought "COOL!"; the UI is very nice... alas my experience was similar to yours and I immediately turned back to SharpReader. Let's hope that the performance issues do get fixed :-)
Or let's hope SharpReader gets those features you expect ;-)
Agreed! I've tried both RSSBandit and FeedDemon and it dawned on me that sometimes simplicity is best. Bandit is chock full of features yet using SharpReader just feels "right". It's fast and intuitive, so what more do I want? :-)
I've tried at least 3 different versions of RSS Bandit and none of them have worked at all. The first few failed and gave me some strange error (it was a while ago, so I don/t remember the exact error), the latest version chokes on the first feed I tried it with (yours, by the way) but SharpReader has never given me any trouble. I can't really compare the 2 because I can't really say that I've actually been able to use RSS Bandit at all.
I have to say I had exactly the same experience Roy. I really wanted to use RSS Bandit but it just doesn't work right. I am seriously considering NewsGator.
Well I just tried the latest version RSS Bandit again after a glowing review on another blog... It was just unusable. SharpReader just works, and that's the most important thing.
And I just switched from Sharpreader to RSSBandit and it wend smooth enough. Besides what would hold you from helping to debug?
I disagree. I have loaded an OPML with 230 feeds into SharpReader without encoutering the same issues. It may not load all the posts very quickly, but I never lose control of the UI. I can click on a category immediately and begin reading while the feeds are refreshing.