I haven't tried Mail's RSS reader out yet, and recently having switched back to Flock I can't make myself use its RSS reader either (even though I used to once upon a time). I've gotten used to using Newsfire and I've got it set just the way I like it; I imported my OPML into Flock but ended up deleting it all again as I just found it cumbersome. Mail's RSS looks very very similar to Flock's; I'll check it out more before deciding but I wasn't super-impressed on first impression.
Jaiku's RSS always seems to get delivered late, or randomly or something. I've never considered it a reliable reader. I actually see it as more of a Google-juice firehose than anything else, haha. I swear I come across my recycled twitter-flickr-tumblr-etc jaiku feeds in the weirdest Google searches sometimes! ;-)
@colbyworld. GOOG juice. Hadn't thought of that, though my alerts on my name and my handles are sauced up by Jaiku fo' sho'!
@jasonw22 absolutely: mail != feed. That said, I honestly have always believed that a holistic message center is achievable. I just don't think RSS fits into that very well.
Imported OPML, etc. but as I have said in other channels, stopped using it because dealing with Flock on multiple boxes results in feeds never in synch. What a pain. Mail supposedly has solved that by synching with an online RSS agg service/reader.
@tastybit Yes, I'm using Flock as my primary browser. It's just FF really, with some extra bells and whistles. I used it when it first came out but went back to FF cause Flock was too slow. They have fixed that issue, and I was getting pissed at having to force-quit FF all the time. Flock seems slightly better about that.
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Seriously, but then I am concerned that the RSS action in Mail may end up doing the same. Anyone started using that yet?!
2 years, 1 month ago by tastybit
I haven't tried Mail's RSS reader out yet, and recently having switched back to Flock I can't make myself use its RSS reader either (even though I used to once upon a time). I've gotten used to using Newsfire and I've got it set just the way I like it; I imported my OPML into Flock but ended up deleting it all again as I just found it cumbersome. Mail's RSS looks very very similar to Flock's; I'll check it out more before deciding but I wasn't super-impressed on first impression.
Jaiku's RSS always seems to get delivered late, or randomly or something. I've never considered it a reliable reader. I actually see it as more of a Google-juice firehose than anything else, haha. I swear I come across my recycled twitter-flickr-tumblr-etc jaiku feeds in the weirdest Google searches sometimes! ;-)
2 years, 1 month ago by colbyworld
I hate mixing RSS with email. Two completely different things. I also don't like downloading mail or RSS. Web mail and web reader all the way.
2 years, 1 month ago by jasonw22
@colbyworld. GOOG juice. Hadn't thought of that, though my alerts on my name and my handles are sauced up by Jaiku fo' sho'!
@jasonw22 absolutely: mail != feed. That said, I honestly have always believed that a holistic message center is achievable. I just don't think RSS fits into that very well.
2 years, 1 month ago by tastybit
@colbyworld so you are using Flock as a standard browser? interesting. I only used it as a feed reader.
2 years, 1 month ago by tastybit
Imported OPML, etc. but as I have said in other channels, stopped using it because dealing with Flock on multiple boxes results in feeds never in synch. What a pain. Mail supposedly has solved that by synching with an online RSS agg service/reader.
2 years, 1 month ago by tastybit
Synch is never an issue with web readers!
2 years, 1 month ago by jasonw22
@jasonw22 exactly why I have gone back to GOOG Reader.
2 years, 1 month ago by tastybit
@tastybit Yes, I'm using Flock as my primary browser. It's just FF really, with some extra bells and whistles. I used it when it first came out but went back to FF cause Flock was too slow. They have fixed that issue, and I was getting pissed at having to force-quit FF all the time. Flock seems slightly better about that.
2 years, 1 month ago by colbyworld