Feed madness

I never realised how much I'd come to depend on NewsGator.

I only started using a feed reader at all a few months ago, but it's already a completely essential service. On Monday, it had some kind of meltdown and re-imported every subscription in my account, feed-by-feed. I had posts from months ago, and all the posts from each feed were grouped together. It wasn't pretty, and it certainly wasn't useful.

I've been hoping it would correct itself, but there's no sign of that yet.

I decided to check out Newshutch, after seeing the link on 37signals last week. It really looks the part, nice clear design, big font, plenty of ajaxification, but I had a few little issues with it. Despite an upgrade to cope with their popularity, it still seemed a little slow yesterday. For some reason, they show shortened version of some posts from full text feeds, and the login page doesn't seem to want to remember me, no matter how many times I ask it to. I could have lived with all that, but there's no way to view multiple feeds.

Viewing all the latest posts from multiple feeds at once is really the only reason I use a feed reader, so for now I'll have to leave Newshutch alone. Maybe I'll check them out next time NewsGator starts acting up.

UPDATE: My newsgator account is working again this morning (21st). WooHoo!