Is there a limit on the humber of feeds that you can assign to a specific tag? I have some that I cannot edit no matter how many times I click on info and add a tag. Just curious, as I like to organize things in collapsable groups. Great job at any rate! :D

If there is one thing I’ve learned from FeedLounge, it is that people have a wide variety of reading preferences. I wanted to make sude you were aware of our three reading views:

http://feedlounge.com/support/tutorial/read/

I personally use a similar approach to the one you describe. I use the 3 column view (the second option in FeedLounge) to do so.

The list of items allows me to read the item title and the source, then I click or arrow key to the ones I’m interested in and read them in the viewpane.

To expand on previous comment regarding people’s first feed reading experience, it’s again born from the feedback we’ve received from FeedLounge users. The users that were previously NetNewsWire or FeedDemon users love FeedLounge’s 3 pane interfaces – they love being able to have “the power of a desktop interface on the web.” Conversely, folks who are longtime Bloglines users eschew both of these views in favor of the River of News view – and they consistently ask us to make the reading experience more like the experience Bloglines offers.

Now of course these are sweeping generalizations and there are exceptions, but the above if true in the 80+% case. The diversity certainly makes things interesting.

Okay, I really went and tried feedlounge once again after writing that comment, it’s been long as I had checked out screenies quite sometime ago and this time I wanted to get more of a feel since this review had really recommended it.

I must admit, it was slick, fast and feature rich… And seriously better than Bloglines and the rest. But I’m a feed devourer and view tons and tons of headlines everyday. Feedlounge doesn’t suit me. The way of reading feeds – Like outlook express, is good but is not the way I prefer as time would be wasted a lot. I filter my posts based on headlines and thus I wanna give more space to the content.

But nevertheless, great service. Good work! I can’t really buy it as I have no online money account, but great job anyway.FL should ask for readers comments on the above reading feeds and give options to the readers as to how they can read feeds.

~ CC

FeedLounge (the web service) is hosted in a co-lo in San Francisco, while the FeedLounge web site is hosted in a data center in New Jersey with the rest of Scott and my web sites hosted on a dedicated server in Austin, TX. Unfortunately, the box in Austin, TX was the primary DNS server for all of these and it burned up on Sunday morning (about 22 hours ago) causing the difficulty in getting to the FeedLounge web site and service.

Hopefully the DNS change has made it to you by now. If it hasn’t, please add 65.90.218.228 to your list of DNS servers in the interim so you can access FeedLounge.

Thanks for the review. Do you have any inside info on why is the service down? We would like to try it out but it’s down for more than 4h. Is this a regular thing?

A few other notes:

Shawn Anthony – the service has been public since mid-January this year (approximately 4 months).

Chrono Cr@cker – it’s interesting to see the difference in expectations of feed reader interfaces between folks that started on desktop readers and folks taht started on web-based readers.

Ryan Humphreys – we released our Notifier API recently, and there is already an OS X widget using it. I expect we’ll have a full suite of notifiers fairly soon.

I haven’t frequented the boards in awhile but I do know that there is one feature I am yearning for… The option to search through read items rather than having to scroll through manually. With so much content coming through, I sometimes forget to flag or tag an item of interest and am forced to go through the history by hand.

Aside from that little minor detail, I would never hesitate to recommend the service to others. Alex King and the gang have a superb support group and often answer bugs or reports in the forums near quickly.

I don’t know about paying subscriptions… it’s an endless overhead no matter how good something is. I bought Netnewswire and it syncs ith Newsgator, which isn’t ajax, but works just like Netnewswire but online. They sync, and I’m happy since I can read my subscriptions, whether I’m on my machine or someone else’s. :)

1) Feedlounge is really feature rich but I think none of the features in Feedlounge are truly new or innovative. Bloglines & Rojo have almost everything. The RSS Reader idea has fantastic scope (http://chronotron.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/the-perfect-rss-web-based-reader/) but nobody really realised it. Bloglines did show some potential, but they’ve screwed up everything now.

2) Feedlounge has a good interface and a neat left pane but I’m not really a fan of their email client like interface. Some kinda interfaces are suitable only for some things.

3) The price is a bit pinchy!

Otherwise it is pretty good.

Thanks!