RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order.
Of course I disagree. I was turned off by Radio Userlands HTML-based interface long ago and I switched to NetNewsWire because it offers exactly what Dave considers to be a waste of time. Radio Userland keeps me away from organizing myself. Currently I have 93 subscriptions in 12 categories. That compiles to 400-700 unread headlines at average. And it is no problem, because I can easily decide to read just one category at a time. Radio Userland does not allow me to do that so easy and it has enormous performance problems with large amounts of posts. NetNewsWire takes a fraction of that time to display the headlines. Maybe Dave Winer should try to work with Radio Userland on an average computer once.
Interfaces for aggregators
Dave Winer thinks Radio Userland has a better interface for reading RSS feeds:
Of course I disagree. I was turned off by Radio Userlands HTML-based interface long ago and I switched to NetNewsWire because it offers exactly what Dave considers to be a waste of time. Radio Userland keeps me away from organizing myself. Currently I have 93 subscriptions in 12 categories. That compiles to 400-700 unread headlines at average. And it is no problem, because I can easily decide to read just one category at a time. Radio Userland does not allow me to do that so easy and it has enormous performance problems with large amounts of posts. NetNewsWire takes a fraction of that time to display the headlines. Maybe Dave Winer should try to work with Radio Userland on an average computer once.