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Giving up on Safari RSS
Okay. I've had it. I gave it a nice month long go. I like the way it looks and works when it works. However, I'm having way too many problems with Safari RSS. Granted, I am a power-RSS user with over 250 feeds which I churn through daily, so it may work fine and trouble free for people with fewer feeds. Nevertheless, about once a week, it behaves oddly and I either have to trash my prefs or go through some other bits of troubleshooting that are just too much work for me. Time to get back into the NetNewsWire swing of things. At least until Apple fixes the Safari RSS bugginess.
Anybody else giving up on Safari RSS?
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Brian said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I gave up on it as well. I just like the interface of NNW too much...and Safari RSS didn't really fit my style of RSSing (Is that a verb?)
I do LOVE it for getting new feeds though. I hated having to search thru sites for RSS/XML buttons. I just have it set to add the feed to NNW when I click the blue button.
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John said 1:34AM on 7-02-2005
I gave up on Safari for a completely different reason: it doesn't support the '/' shortcut for searching in a page which I have become very dependent on from my Firefox usage on the Linux boxes I use for work all day. So I am back to Firefox on the Mac again...
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daniel e said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I gave up Safari RSS to go back to NetNewsWire Lite because it is so much faster. Safari RSS would get caught up when i tried to open multiple feeds and required longer loading times. Back to NetNewsWire
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Cap'n Hector said 4:46PM on 7-05-2005
I gave up Safari RSS at about 70 feedsI started using rss2email on my Linux box to e-mail me my feeds. It's soo easy to use, and it's totally free.
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Tim O. said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
nope, still using it.
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BrianC said 6:48PM on 7-20-2005
I only watch ~30 feeds and within a week or two Safari RSS was getting bogged down on my 1.8Ghz single processor G5. It also fails to sync the 'read' status of items between my two .mac synced machines. Both of those problems drove me to NetNewsWire.
I really wanted to like Safari RSS. Oh well, it's still helping get the RSS word out.
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Matt said 3:36PM on 9-01-2005
I gave up on Safari RSS and pretty much Safari as a whole about 2 weeks ago. I was excited about safari rss because i didnt' really care for NNW1 but when I saw version 2, i dropped it immediately. Better UI, more features, better rss support (safari didnt' like some of the feeds i fed it). It's also nice to be able to glance at all my feeds at once instead of clicking thru the drop down bookmark menus all the time.
As for safari as a whole, I like the latest nightlies of Camino 0.9 much better than safari. Renders faster, feels faster, and doesn't have a retina-burning metal UI (yes, safari's still fugly even after you get rid of it). The only thing I miss about safari is the little rss button in the address bar.
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Michael said 7:42PM on 7-12-2005
I love the style of Safari RSS, but I have also been experiencing odd slowdown and stuttering when viewing 80 or so feeds on a 1.5GHz PowerBook. I haven't seen many mentions of this quirk ... is this even something Apple recognizes as a problem?
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Stephen Rice said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Could somebody be kind enough to list out the benfits of RSS readers for me? I have given it a good go for the past month, and have had trouble realizing any benefits, especially for sites such as TUAW. All the RSS reader appears to accomplish is giving a stripped down version of the page, while I would generally prefer the full version.
Is there something that I am doing wrong? Features I am not taking advantage of? My set-up is as follows:
I have made a special folder in my bookmarks menu for all RSS sites, and select "Open in tabs" two to three times a day. I then go through all of the tabs and catch up on the news. This, however, would be the exact same were I to simply bookmark the regular sites and open them all in tabs, except that, in the latter method, I would skip the step of clicking on "read more," which gets annoying.
What am I missing?
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Gerald Buckley said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Untypically poor execution on Apple's part. Gave up on Safari w/ RSS during the prerelase developer previews. Icky implementation overall. Still waiting on something spectacular. Until then Firefox is getting me by that is INTEGRATED with a browser.
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Mark said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I'm using Kinja (http://www.kinja.com), which makes my RSS consumption portable, rather than binding it to my desktop.
The benefits - Hitting refresh on my Kinja page instantly shows me if there's updated content on any number of sites...and the intro lets me know if it's something I'm interested in clicking through to read.
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Small Paul said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Previously, I used Firefox's RSS bookmarks. I prefer Safari RSS, as it shows me how many new items there are right there in my bookmarks bar. (I also prefer Safari over Firefox for browsing, so that fits much nicer.)
However, I'm not convinced Safari does the right thing all the time when judging whether an item is new or not. Maybe some of my sites are just creating their RSS files wrongly, but I quite often get repeat articles, which is a little bit annoying.
I've never gotten around to using an actual standalone RSS reader, so maybe if I get the time to try NetNewsWire Lite properly, I'll move to that.
Stephen: the idea is that RSS readers check sites for you, and tell you when there's something new. Without that you have to actually, y'know... *look* at the sites *yourself*. Ugh! Menial tasks such as these are the domain of the machines.
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NCTRNL said 9:11AM on 6-28-2005
I am a Firefox user. I like the way it handles RSS better. I like the way it handles them as bookmarks and you can scroll through them.
I also hate the way that the RSS Screen Saver works...
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_victor said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Repeat after me: "Rough around the edges."
It's the new mantra for Tiger.
I have only just begun to use Safari RSS (not on my primary work machine though).
Good to know it will soon become a burden...
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Steve said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
How do you set Safari RSS to add the RSS feed to NNW Lite when you click the blue button? Thanks.
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Thomas said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Sage RSS reader in Firefox all the way. Safari's is nice, however still lacking. Maybe Apple will upgrade it in the future.
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Mikey said 10:21AM on 6-28-2005
I tried it. I don't hate it but I like that NetNewsWire is specificly for RSS. I do like the fact in Safari RSS that if the site I'm looking at has a feed it will send it to NNW.
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Dennis Groves said 7:00PM on 7-24-2005
Funny thing, I have been removing feeds from Safari attempting to get it to stabalize I am down to 69 from 181. And again this morning the new items fail to apear in the color red, or sort...
I don't think that it is ready for prime time and that is a bummer because I tended to read my industries "news" each morning in my very own customized "news paper".
I also tried and paid for pulp fiction, but the thing is so slow it is unusable for me. (YMMV) Argh! I am thinking that rss2email is going to be my "final" solution...
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Ron Green said 11:40PM on 6-29-2005
PulpFiction.
http://freshsqueeze.com/products/pulpfiction/
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Ken said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
http://www.Bloglines.com
I don't understand why anyone would use anything else.
Why use another application when you can just use any browser. Any where.
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