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.