Comments on: Best RSS Feed Reader for Windows?

By: Markandey Singh

Markandey Singh — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:04:53 +0000

Chrome users can try this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgjiekambmjckfnbedchbjiamngedppn

By: WebBizGeek

WebBizGeek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:55:59 +0000

I have to agree with you here – my experience has been the same: long time user, then ‘upgraded’ and now persistent feed problems. In my case, I added a bunch of complex feeds after the upgrade, so I’ve not been sure that the regular version would have had trouble with them, too.

They keep saying they are working on it, but it seems like these feed problems are not getting fixed too quickly and that their attentions are elsewhere – e.g., new “Dashboard Everything” push.

You raise a good point about rolling back. Did you ask tech support about that? They’ve been pretty responsive to me – even if they weren’t able to actually things every time.

Thanks for your comment.

By: JohnnyL

JohnnyL — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:36:53 +0000

I have been using netvibes for a long time. Never any real problems until I “Upgraded” to Wasabi. Should never have done that. Feeds don’t update,duplicate feeds, seems to be a resource hog etc. Wish I could find a way to roll back to the version I had before Wasabi.

By: nascent

nascent — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:10 +0000

Another major con for Google Reader is lack of authenticated feed support.

By: WebBizGeek

WebBizGeek — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:36:23 +0000

Yes, I’ve been doing a similar side-by-side comparison with Google Reader myself for some time. Can be quite frustrating.

My experience has been not so much that things are altogether missing from Wasabi, but rather that they can take a lot longer to post. For older items, say 12hrs – 18hrs old, the items lineup is generally identical between the two. I’ve never found anything permanently missing.

The biggest issues are my Yahoo Pipes feeds, but it can be any random feed on any given day. If things look delayed, I often switch to G Reader to get latest there. Otherwise, the updating cycle is generally within tolerance for my purposes, but others may need the info absolutely up to the minute. If so, Wasabi is going to be a headache.

Despite these glitches, for me, Wasabi’s superior readability still wins – but I surely look forward to the day (hopefully soon) when I can 100% rely on Wasabi.

By: Tom Kirkendall

Tom Kirkendall — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:27:57 +0000

Earlier this year, I ran Wasabi and Google Reader for about a month using the same RSS feeds. For whatever reason, Wasabi picked up only a fraction of the items generated by the RSS feeds that Google Reader generated. I reported this to the NetVibes folks, who said they were working on the problem. However, after a month, they did not have it resolved. I requested that they let me know when they resolved it and they said they would. I have not heard from them.