I’m breaking up with FeedLounge.
It started out as a whirlwind romance over a year ago, but in its last days was one of those relationships you just know isn’t right, but you try to fix it out of hope and loyalty. FL is beautiful . . . gorgeous, even. Her way of “tagging” feeds instead of just throwing them into traditional folders was the wave of the future. Unfortunately, she’s also a bit of a whore . . . demanding $5 for every month she gives to you. Even then, she doesn’t always perform her expected duties — leaving feeds un-aggregated, giving “Server Errors” every few days and making the site unaccessible for hours, or even days. It just got to be too much. These differences are irreconcilable.
So, goodbye FeedLounge. All things must pass. As Sandra sang, “sunset comes for everyone”. Google Reader is my main squeeze now. She’s not as pretty as you, but she gets the job done, and for free.
Best of luck to Scott and the rest of the FeedLounge crew. Listen to your customers, and act accordingly, or you’ll lose them.
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Ah, FeedLounge. She is like the girl you dated in high school who was so hot but you knew it just wouldn’t work out.
The tagging scheme is beautiful. (It amuses me that Google, the king of tags when it relates to email, resorts to “folders” in Google Reader.)
I made a similar choice a few months ago. I haven’t been sorry. Google has done a good job at rolling out improvements over the last few months. I think you’ll be happy with your decision.
Thing is, Google Reader’s “folders” are essentially the same thing as FeedLounge’s “tags”, since you can put feeds in multiple folders (the primary weakness of traditional folders, in my opinion, is that items can only reside in one folder at a time).
So, when I saw that GR’s “folders” were really just tags with an unfortunate name, the deal was sealed.
You can? I haven’t figured that out yet. Yeah, in that case, they’re just tags by a different name. I’ll have to go check it out.
Rae, I’m afraid that they’re not listening.
I made the jump to Google Reader a few months ago and haven’t looked back since.
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