Netnewswire. I flirted with Newsmac Pro for awhile but it isn’t as polished — tho it is very good and gets better with every release.

Frank

Forgot to mention a couple points… Basically, I use NetNewsWire for my news… ALL OF IT. I probably refresh my list every 15 minutes to a 1/2 hour. My subscription count I believe is around 50.. I try to keep it as low as possible — only keeping my absolute favorites in the respective genre.

Frank

My RSS reader is Thunderbird, it’s ok. In fact, I didn’t search for alternatives. There are about 40 feeds I read frequently, but only the interesting articles, of course. When I read an article, I always visit the website it belongs to. Maybe it’s just a habit. I also think websites just look better on the web than in a RSS reader.

Thalion

Ok, nice questions. I use Gregarius with a cron with greps the feeds every 30 minutes, at the time I’m suscribet to 282 Feeds, mixed Atom und RSS, most time I prefer Atom, but I don’t know why :-) Almost forgotten, fullfead is better .-)

Andreas Rodler

At the moment I am using BlogLines for my feeds at the moment (however, I may switch to netnewswire). I preffer to read the articles from actual site and this is made easier by having an excerpt on the feed rather than the whole entry as it gives you a better idea of what you’re reading in one sentence/paragraph then it would if you read the first sentence/paragraph of the whole entry. I check my feeds aboiut every 15/30 minutes. I use RSS as my preffered feed type, 2.0 :)

Dave

Oops, I’m subscribed to about 40 feeds (i’ve only been using it for a few weeks). What would people say is the best feed application for windows?

Dave

I use Vienna on OS X. I’m subscribed to just under 200 feeds. I prefer full text in feeds. If I find an article interesting or the feed only has an excerpt I click once to open it into a new tab. I don’t have a preference for the type of feed (rss or atom). I have Vienna to check for feeds hourly, and how often I read them depends on how my work is going but generally I take a five minute break about every hour.

Hugh ROper

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire — I really like the three-paned layout, and I can operate it with one hand :) (apple-shift-r, apple-k, space)</li> <li>41 feeds</li> <li>I catch myself refreshing the feeds all the time when I’m working, but it’s set to refresh every 30 minutes </li> <li>I prefer feeds that contain complete articles, so I don’t have to switch apps or wait for some site to download.</li> <li>Not really</li> <li>No</li> </ol>

Brutalicious

I’m currently a Bloglines user, with the dashboard widget. I like being able to pick up my news if I’m at Uni and have some time to burn. It’s kind of slow, but I like the way that I only have to have one app (browser) open. I’m currently subscribed to 108 feeds: Link (Bloglines’ export feature is handy for this). I visit the site for all but a few feeds where there’s a very short ammount of info (or an image) that looks the same in bloglines as on the site. I have no real preference as to full/summary feeds, if I have a choice I’ll pick the full feed so I can still read in case the site goes down. I usually pick RSS2.0 feeds if given a choice, I’m not really sure why (other than it’s what I publish in).

quis

I’m using NewsFire (Link on OS X. I’ll never understand why there’s not more of an equal competition between it and NetNewsWire; it’s simple, it’s beautiful, and David Watanabe is a one-man army on updates. (Or maybe I just love it so because I’m an upgrade addict.) I subscribe to about 80 feeds on it which was set to refresh every half an hour but I changed it to two hours since it was killing my productivity. :) No preference on the type of feed but I do like full posts for sure. IMO, everyone should use full posts. Don’t make readers come to your website to catch the rest, convince them to leave the browser and hit up your site because they want to be engaged in the discussion (this post being a perfect case in point).

Rob

Bloglines — With tabs I can have everything in one place on one app. No other apps haver really given me what I wanted from RSS. How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? 67. Holy crap! How frequently do you check for new articles? Obsessively. Whenever I pause between activities. Another advantage to having the browser based reader. Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? If it’s done right, short ones. I can tell if I should bother going to the site. Going there for five additional words is just annoying though. If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular basis? Not really. Sad to say. Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? Don’t really know the differences, don’t really care.

Bryan Covington

I’m using NetNewsWire Lite and handling around 85 feeds that way. My NetNewsWire is configured to refresh every 15 minutes — I have no preference regarding the kind of a feed, ‘cause I always read the articles in Firefox.

Julian Schrader

Sage Extension for Firefox here. Why use another program when you need the browser to read the full post? I also prefer short abstracts in the feed, time is money ;-)

Julia

I use NewsFire. Moves faster than other apps or online-aggregator. Subscribing about 70 feeds now. Don’t care about the format or the length of feed items. Cause I only skim the first 10 words and click to open the items in Firefox. Checking updates around 30 minutes. Link below will be a help to organize huge amout of feed items. Link Nev n Dave » Top 10 tips for effective blog reading — part 1">Nev n Dave » Top 10 tips for effective blog reading — part 1

Ange

Ich nutze NNW Lite. Ich habe 73 Feeds abonniert und aktualisiere diese je nach Arbeitsaufkommen teils auch mehrmals pro Stunde :-) Ich bevorzuge Fullfeeds, da ich nicht jede Seite aufrufen will. Das Format ist mir eigentlich egal. Ich habe für mich noch keinen Unterschied feststellen können.

Martin Schneider

I’m a Vienna on OS X user, and I subscribe to 150+ feeds which I refresh throughout the day to try and keep on top of things. Despite this, I am still faced with upwards of 200 new articles when I turn the computer on of a morning. I subscribe to full feeds (if they are available) in any of the main formats — for an end user like me, with an app that takes anything valid, the format itself makes no real difference. I tend to scan through everything in Vienna, only opening in Firefox the ones I want to read in more depth, that have lots of links, or that I want to bookmark on del.icio.us. Most days I’ll only look at 20 to 30 articles in an actual browser. I find if a site is just using headlines, or excerpts, I read less of their content — describing content in just a few lines well enough to make me want to read more is a talent few people have. As an exception to this, with sites that have already built up their reputation in my mind, I am more willing to deal with excerpts. Another reason I like full feeds is, as a regular traveller, I am frequently subjected to dial-up/slow connections, but I can still get the majority of my daily content and read it offline without having to wait for sites to load.

Cas

I use Bloglines for a few reasons, At the time I started using it was a Windows user and I wasn’t impressed by FeedDemon. I can also check Bloglines from anywhere since its web-based. But, I’m a mac user now and I’ve been happy with Bloglines so I haven’t really given NetNewsWire or any of the OS X Feed Aggregators out there a look. I’ve been into RSS feeds for about a year and a half, and I have 107 feeds. I usually go feed happy and add feeds all the time but if I get maybe 5-10 articles/posts (depending on post frequency) that aren’t interesting I’ll unsubscribe. I hate to say it, I unsubscribed to Zeldman because I found nothing interesting in what he had to say, no offense. I try to subscribe to Atom, though I’m not fully versed in the major differences between formats. I prefer Full Articles, though sometimes I’ll go to the website anyway.

Chris Griffin

Ich nutze Thunderbird (hab noch nicht nach Alternativen gesucht), hab ca. 40 Feeds abonniert (mal + Kommentarfeed, mal ohne) und lasse sie alle 30 Minuten checken. Ich bevorzuge Fullfeeds, besuche aber trotzdem hin und wieder mal die Website, spätestens — bspw. — bei Auszug-Feeds, Redesign-Hinweisen, wenn ich einen Kommentar abgeben möchte oder mir das Design einfach gefällt. Format-Favoriten hab ich keine.

Michel

I use NetNewsWire. It’s great! I’m going to take a close look at the next version NewsMac Pro, though, because it’ll feature an interesting combined view which might be very suitable for smaller screen. Also I admit that I’m frequently tempted by Google Reader. I don’t really care about RSS vs. Atom etc. but I do prefer full article feeds. Even with full article feeds I still visit the websites if their design appeals to me (like this one!! :). But many sites only offer excerpt feeds and the actual pages are quite ugly or badly made (fonts too small etc.)—which I like to circumvent with reading the articles in NNW whenever possible …! Browsing all articles in the same GUI with the same fonts preferences is the most convenient thing for me most of the time and I feel it helps focussing on the content. By the way, I also don’t really like big, (near) full screen windows so a webkit browser inside the news reader isn’t really an option for me. (I’m working on a 12” PowerBook.)

Christian Bogen

NetNewsWire with 111 feeds that I refresh every 30 minutes or so.

Andrew Hamann

I’m using Netnewswire Lite, that’s all I need to be satisfied, I got about 66 Feeds, and I also try to keep it as low as possible. I got them refreshed every 30 minutes… I guess it’s okay for wether the feed got only a short excerpt or a whole artcile, but what’s a definetly no-no is a feed without any content besides the Headline (I’m talking about spiegel.de, my german speaking friends…)! The format doesn’t matter to me, at long as it works fine…

Ben

I use Netnewswire Lite for all my feeds. I tried a few different ones but they all seemed to clunky, too many features which I didn’t care about. I also tested a few online services (so I could keep track of them easily between home/work), such as Bloglines, etc but they all seem really heavy. All I want from a newsreader is that it picks up the feeds, allows me to categorise them somewhat and is attractive to read in.

Max

Google Reader. 30 feeds. 5-10 times a day. I don’t subscribe to feeds that don’t contain full articles. It really bothers me when you only get a snippet. Enough that I just won’t subscribe if it doesn’t. I only end up visiting the actual site if there is some sort of rendering problem with the feed version. I couldn’t care less about RSS/Atom when it comes to reading things.

eric

LiveJournal feeds for me, mainly as I have a number of friends who post protected entries there, so it makes sense to keep it all in one spot. To my knowledge there isn’t a good way of reading protected LJ user posts in a reader.

ceejayoz

NetNewsWire, because it’s the best. 159 feeds, currently. I check every two hours because of the number and variety of posting times and I like to have things to read to break up the day. I prefer summaries, because I like to visit the sites. If the site has a full-content feed, I still visit the site for the same reason. No preferences regarding format. I’m not sure of the ins and outs of each, but NNW deals with them all so I don’t have to.

Alexander Carlin

NetNewsWire because it’s clean, easy-to-use and stable. I’m subscribed to about 100 feeds, which is growing at a couple feeds per month it seems. I have it update every half hour. I prefer feeds with decent-length blurbs because then I can easily tell whether I’m interested or not. I don’t have a preference on format really.

Chris

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire, although I own a licence of NewsFire as well so I switch often.</li> <li>176</li> <li>Every half hour if I’m not at work</li> <li>I open all articles in a browser, reading the article on the site is much nicer because some sites like this are just so pretty too look at.</li> <li>Yes, depending on what site is it though.</li> <li>Not really</li> </ol>

Chris McElligott

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire — it’s lean, clean-looking, stable, and configurable on a feed-by-feed basis. Plus the Dock notification is nice.</li> <li>52</li> <li>I have most feeds checked every half hour, but some only once or twice a day.</li> <li>I prefer a short excerpt. I don’t want to read the whole article in my feedreader, and I like hitting spacebar to quickly go from feed to feed, and letting articles load in Safari in the background. I can’t switch through my feeds quickly if they have long articles, because the spacebar makes them scroll instead.</li> <li>I usually prefer to visit the site.</li> <li>Having a vague notion that Atom is a better format, I choose that when there’s an option.</li> </ol>

Paul D

Very interesting guys. As being one of those guys that are online more or less all the time I never really thought about the drawback of not including the whole article in the Feed. Maybe I should change that. What do you think? Btw I forgot to mention one main aspect, why I’m using NetNewsWire: its functionality to sync your feeds and their sate (read/unread) between several computers.

Wolfgang

NetNewsWire Lite, refreshed ever hour (automatically), with around 35 — 40 feeds. Why NetNewsWire? It just works. No preference when it comes to the feed format. Heck, don’t RSS and ATOM essentially perform the same task? If the article looks interesting enough, I head over to the site to read the whole thing.

Egor

Which RSS reader is your favorit one? Why? Safari, easy to use and I don’t have to leave the browser How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? 2 How frequently do you check for new articles? If I am on the company every 30 mins or so Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? Full articles because I can make them short in safari, but if I don’t like the look of them I don’t have to read more than the first few lines. If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular base? Only for the forums, not the news. Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. As a developer I mostly work with RSS 2.0

Jordan

<ol> <li>I use NewsFire, because it is one of the most beautiful and elegant apps on OS X. I like the minimalistic style of NF and it handles podcasts pretty clever in my opinion.</li> <li>About 190 Feeds.</li> <li>Automatic refresh is set to 1 hour. Some feeds are checked once in 3 hours some even less.</li> </ol> 4.+5. I prefer complete articles. Even though, I open larger articles in Safari to read them later (I also use Saft to autosave open tabs, so the open sites are not lost after quitting and relaunching Safari). <ol> <li>No.</li> </ol>

Maurice

RSSOWL, 137Feeds, 3times a day, no preferences. I prefer complete articles, too ( because I do like reading ).

Heiko

<ol> <li>Bloglines.com: No need to sync read-flags or feed-list</li> <li>65 Feeds</li> <li>Full articles, since Bloglines.com supports even mobile-devices with text-only view</li> </ol>

Stefan

<ul> <li>FeedDemon, because it suits my reading style almost perfectly and I’m on Windows. </li> <li>164.</li> <li>Roughly twice a day (morning and lunch). Some select feeds are checked more often, like project defect tracking feeds etc.</li> <li>Complete articles so I can read the full stuff in my aggregator. </li> <li>I do, actually. Occassionally I click through on full articles to read them in the browser. I have no valid reason for doing so, but I’ve noticed myself doing it on seemingly arbitrary articles. Possibly because I know I like the layout of the article, or I expect the comments to be golden.</li> <li>I tend to subcribe to the RSS 2.0 if available.</li> </ul>

Jakob S

<ol> <li>Like Jordan I’m one of the few people that use Safari RSS. I don’t really like the idea of using a separate app (& taking up more dock space) when I can read news & browse sites with one app.</li> <li>Around 60 feeds.</li> <li>Every 30 minutes or so.</li> <li>Feeds with full articles. Some short articles don’t contain enough info & sometimes I don’t know whether the article is intersting enough for me to go to the site & carry on readding or not?</li> <li>No, not as often.</li> <li>No preference (To be honest I don’t really know the differences).</li> </ol>

Jono

Which RSS reader is your favorit one? Why? I use NewsFire for reading my feeds and i actually think it`s one of the best looking apps on OS X. How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? About 160 How frequently do you check for new articles? My reader is set to refresh every 20 minutes Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? Full articles. If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular base? Out of some reason there are websites that i almost always change to when i´m interested in the article and others i barely know the layout of the site any more. Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. No

tobs

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire Lite. Nice to look at, nice to use, provides all the functionality I need, free.</li> <li>124</li> <li>About twice a day (modem connection), never at work (too distracting)</li> <li>Full articles. The excerpts often don’t allow to judge whether the article is interesting enough to be read or not.</li> <li>If it is a full article I sometimes read it in NNW, but due to the modem connection I skip through the feeds, open in Safari in background tabs what it interesting and read them later</li> <li>No preference due to the lack of technical knowledge regarding this issue</li> </ol>

Henning

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire</li> <li>200+ feeds</li> <li>3 — 4 times a day. and if the number goes over 300.</li> <li>full articles</li> <li>sometimes open a feed in NNW webkit window, if the article is worth keeping: Safari and save to disk as plain html .webarchive and pdf</li> <li>no preferences</li> </ol>

Yoram

<ol> <li>Sage-Extension for Firefox</li> <li>40</li> <li>4-5 times/week 4.-6. No Preferences (I read the Articles on the Source-Website)</li> </ol>

René

<blockquote><em>Wolfgang wrote</em>: As being one of those guys that are online more or less all the time I never really thought about the drawback of not including the whole article in the Feed. Maybe I should change that. What do you think?</blockquote> It would be nice to have the option to choose a full feed, though I am fully aware of the downsides to a full feed — namely content scraped to be published elsewhere, and loss of advertising revenue (though this last does not affect this site). I am seeing more and more sites that set their autodiscover tags to display a summary feed, but also provide a full feed for those that want it. From a personal standpoint, this seems like the best solution.

Cas

I, like a few others use the built in RSS support in Safari. It handles Ok since I’m only subscribing to ~20 feeds. I read all feads the first thing in the morning when I’m drinking my morning-cappa.

Edvard Wendelin

Sage but i’m just changing to Thunderbird ~20 feeds; 2/day; full article

Koka

I use NetNewsWire Lite. Currently I’m testing the “normal” version, but I think I won’t buy it. As Wolfgang mentioned it really works good with a great amount of feeds. Currently I’m subscribed to 106 feeds. I think I look at least every hour for new articles. But I think it’s more often. I prefer full feeds, but it depends on the content of the article/site. I don’t like feeds with online headlines but if there is a little summary, it’s okay. Sites with full feeds I only visit, if the article is long, I’d like to comment or read comments. I dont’t prefer any RSS format maybe because I don’t know the differences. ;-) So if I’m able to choose I click on RSS 2.0 …

Bernhard

I’m a Rojo man, with around 200 subscriptions. Checked whenever I find time, which generally is once a day, sometimes twice. I don’t care about excerpt vs. full, really, because I always read the interesting stories on the site itself. I guess excerpts help deciding whether the story is interesting more than a full feed does, though. No preference regarding format, because I don’t know enough about how they work and such, but I find myself choosing RSS 2.0 feeds where possible, for no real reason.

Richard

I’m using the Firefox Live Bookmarks feature, the most comfortable option for a few feds, they reside within the Bookmarks Toolbar so I can just quickly hover them while surfing. For the tiny rest (which changes more seldomly) I use the Firefox Extension “Sage” sidebar integrated.

Christoph M.

<ol> <li>Which RSS reader is your favorit one? Why? Safari, notifies me in the booksmarks, can view them all at once, it provides live search and history of older feeds, merges feeds together, loads photos and links. User-interface could look nicer but it looks good.</li> <li>How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? 10, but thanks to Safari I merged my Netflix Shipped/Recieved feed with Netflix Queue</li> <li>How frequently do you check for new articles? All day long, but Safari only goes every 30 minutes.</li> <li>Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? Full articles! I hate mini-ones. Mini ones mean you got to go load another page (sometimes full of advertisements). Also that makes it harder to export to an iPod.</li> <li>If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular base? Usually, though not as much as other sites that don’t have RSS feeds.</li> <li>Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. I have had no experience with Atom except with Blogger-blogs. I like how RSS 2.0 puts images and html in it, but I’m thinking Atom lets you do that too. I hate it when an RSS Reader is incompatible with a feed (and when a website doesn’t provide a compatible version with it).</li> </ol>

ZicklePop

Wow, lots of people using dedicated RSS reader services… <ol> <li>I just use Safari, which I find great for the same reasons as Zick, plus I can switch between web pages and feeds almost instantly — a one stop shop if you will.</li> <li>50-60</li> <li>Depends how busy I am, I scan which sites have new articles at least once a day, though I may not look at any. Other days 3-5 times a day if there’s lively commenting to keep up with.</li> <li>I prefer summaries, so I can preview posts more quickly.</li> <li>N/A</li> <li>No Preference so long as Safari can parse it ;-)</li> </ol>

Steve Williams

<ol> <li>Which RSS reader is your favorit one? Why? Klipfolio (Windows), because it is small and gives a good overview.</li> <li>How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? 6+</li> <li>How frequently do you check for new articles? Every 2 hours</li> <li>Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? The link and the title is enough, i visit the website if i am interested.</li> <li>-</li> <li>Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. No, i use all i get (but klipfood is better integrated in my newsreader ad rss or atom so it is prefered).</li> </ol>

Matthias Mohr

I’m using Sage for Firefox. It’s a great RSS/Atom reader. I’ importing all my feeds from Thunderbird into Sage right about now ;) maybe about 20 feeds. But they are getting more and more :D

robert

I check them every 1 or half hour, sometimes every 2 hours. depends on how much I’m bored ;) I really like feeds which contain the whole article. That way I can scan the article and then I decide whether to read it mindful. Yeah, I visit the website. e.g. to give a comment. In fact it’s much nicer to see a design masterpiece like your website than a standard RSSreader theme… When a site offers Atom I’m used to subscribe to the Atom feed.

robert

I have been using Bloglines for a while now. It isn’t my favorite interface, but is functional — I prefer a desktop application’s UI, but haven’t found a good (free) one for Windows that does everything I want it to. One main benefit for Bloglines that I haven’t figured out how to do any other way is being able to check my feeds from anywhere and having the articles that I’ve already viewed and/or read sync up. I am currently subscribed to approx. 50 feeds, which I generally scan over at least once a day — usually during my lunch break at work and later at night from home. I would have to say that I generally prefer feeds that contain an excerpt, but as others have said only when they provide a good overview. It’s not helpful (and rather annoying) to just get part of the first paragraph of the article ending with “…”. Good, short excerpts make it much easier and faster to get an idea of what an article is talking about, and to determine if it is something I’m interested in reading or not. I do generally read the articles on the original website, especially if it is a nicely designed one (like this one). Most well-designed websites provide a more pleasant reading experience than Bloglines (and most of the other readers I have tried). Lastly, I don’t really care what format the feed is in, as long as it is one I can use.

Tom S.

I’m just using Safari for my rss feeds. It’s very convenient for me that way. I have this add-on that shows me how many new articles there are on the dock icon. I’m currently subscribed to around 55 feeds. I have Safari check for updates every 30 minutes. I prefer feeds that show a brief description of the article (like a subheading) underneath the main title of the article. It takes up less space, so I can just open up articles I’m interested in in another tab in the background while I look for other ones I want to read. After I finish going through them, I just go through each tab and read the article. I don’t really think about the format. All I care is that it’s compatible with Safari. If I had to make a choice, I’d go with whichever one is more customizable.

Mike Wagner

<ol> <li>NetNewsWire (at home) — I like the three panes, Google Reader (at work)</li> <li>147</li> <li>Morning, lunch, dinner.</li> <li>Excerpts. And people should get to the point in one sentence… If it’s not got my attention in this, I’m gone. Or I will need another 24hrs on a day…</li> <li>-</li> <li>No, I don’t care, NetNewsWire reads it all. But I hate formats (or feed-writer) which doesn’t recognize I read the article already.</li> </ol>

Stefan

1 NetNewsWire — why? Umm, actually its the only one I’ve ever used. Installed a few under Linux, but never got them to work properly. 2 not sure, over 200 3 mostly every hour, but a few I have set to every day, or every few days to save the publisher’s bandwidth when I know they don’t publish more often than that. 4 full article, please. If not, then a meaningful summary, ala aaron wall, not just the first couple of lines which confuse me more than entice me 5 generally not 6 nope.

Lea

I’m reading with Bloglines about 90 Feeds. <blockquote> Basically I prefer reading an article on the actual web site, even if the feed includes the whole article. This is mainly because articles tend to look more appealing on web sites than in RSS readers — at least from my point of view. </blockquote> Thats my thinking, too. I like to read great interesting in an appealing ambience. I don’t think that online-readers can feature that.

Björn

<ul> <li>Sage (extension for Firefox). <ul> <li>about 100, but daily I actually read no more than 10..15 of them</li> <li>usually ~2 times a day</li> <li>I prefer excerpts. No need to download the whole articles that I won’t read — except for some of them.</li> <li>RSS looks like more ‘standard’ and more popular, but Atom is definitely more elaborated.</li> </ul></li> </ul>

amix

I read my ca. 200 feeds with Operas integrated feedreader, which is very comfortable. I set the frequency for the feeds according to the posting frequency to save time and bandwidth. Fulltext feeds are by far the best because I can archive and search them. And I prefer my own settings for fonts and colors. I visit the web site when I look for interesting comments. Oh, and I don’t care about the format.

Thomas Scholz

Which RSS reader is your favorit one? Why? NetNewsWire for MAC OS X. Simply the best reader. How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? More than 300. How frequently do you check for new articles? Every day or few days. Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? Complete articles since time is money. If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular base? No. Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. I prefer ATOM but RSS 2.0 is ok too.

fueg0

Which RSS reader is your favourite one? Why? — I use Safari because, like others here, I don’t want to have another program running and I like using Apple programs (even if they’re sometimes not necessarily the best—strange, perhaps). How many feeds are you currently subscribed to? — Gees, I don’t know…. 15–20 maybe. How frequently do you check for new articles? — I usually read through the new articles in the morning when I get to work and sometimes will have another look once or twice in the day. Do you either prefer feeds that contain complete articles or rather those that just contain a short excerpt? Why? If you prefer those feeds with full articles, do you still visit the actual web site on a regular base? — I think I definitely prefer full feeds so I can simply read the article within my RSS reader…. If I want more information, I will go to their website, yes. Have you any preferences regarding RSS format? I mean RSS 2.0, Atom etc. — To be honest I haven’t really taken the time to loo at the difference so am unsure….. Cheers, Galen

Galen

PulpFiction baby (Mac OS X)…with smart folders to keep things sane and organized. Link 467 subscriptions. Handled nicely by PulpFiction’s SQLite back-end.

Chip Cuccio

I use NNW on osx. It handles 325 feeds. I refresh them every 30 minutes. I love full feeds and do visit the website if it is well designed.

coelomic

I prefer Safari (as surprisingly few seem to do here) out of similar reasons stated already: One ap only, proven apple quality, etc. But: I used to toy around with various newsreaders in the past and eventually narrowed it down to NetNewsWird and NewsFire. Both are capable to handle large quantites of feeds with the nescesarry ease to make reading fun. In the end I switched back to Safari for one reason only: Time. I seem kind of prone to read news whenever they pop up and with 100+ feeds this takes off a lot of your daytime. So I reduced the number of feeds to my current top 10 (changing slightly every month), stay relatively informed with most topics that spark my interest and keep the reading time to a minimum. The article length should be full, because i prefer to read in a coherent environment styled for ease of reading, instead of dozens or hundreds of different page layouts (even if they are sometimes pleasing). The perfect mix is something Safari already tries: Define the article length by yourself. If the feed gives you full size and you can tune the actual amount yourself, everybody should be satisfied. As of the different feed types: Well, what the browsers already try to do is just right — keep it simple. If it is required to have several different types of feeds so to cater to every newssites needs, well so be it, but no need to bother the user with this.

Metatron

/ Sage-Extension for Firefox / ~50 Feeds / Daily / I read the Articles on the Source-Website

roman

After trying a number of new readers I finally settled on NetNewsWire for reasons others have mentioned plus its upcoming integration with NewsGator. (I use NewsGator Web Edition at work since there is no approved news reader software for the atrocious Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)). I have between 70 and 80 feeds and prefer article summaries since my time is quite limited and this allows me to quickly skim to sort out what is of immediate interest and what I want to come back to later when I have time (stored in NewGator’s clippings folders). I store articles that I want to keep for future reference by clipping them from my browser to DEVONthink pro which has become an invalaubale reference database tool for news feed and other articles.

Steve

Firefox Sage / 3 / Rarely / Short excerpts, otherwise they take up too much space, I’m looking to scan quickly / I’ve not needed to learn about Atom yet so only RSS The most useful thing I’ve managed to achieve with RSS so far is the ability to insert a specific feed into my web pages using a chunk of PHP, it’s a nice way of threading things together automatically.

Matt Williams

So, Thunderbird is my first choice, free, stable, showing the whole site, that´s it. Most of the sites are on my webtour weekly, I don´t need 180 feeds to be informed, to avoid an information overkill I visit bartelme and 10 others…thats it. By the way, thanks for the fine software update posts…nice service and much more “stylish” than versiontracker…ggg

renkert.net

<ol> <li>Bloglines, for simplicity and all the things I want/need.</li> <li>80 Feeds</li> <li>I check whenever t tells me there is an update.</li> <li>I prefer full feeds because that’s what RSS is for and so I can read the whole article however I choose to.</li> <li>I usually visit the site unless the site just posts a biblical amount of posts per day.</li> <li>No preference, as long as my rss reader can figure it out.</li> </ol>

Glen C.

My current favorite reader is NetNewsWire (Lite because I’m cheap), and Safari was my primary one up until a few days ago. I’m subscribed to about 50 feeds and have it set to check every 5 minutes. I like the feeds that have short blurbs — if I want to keep reading, I actually go to the site. No preference on the RSS format…

Eric

Wow! People are really into feeds! I just have live bookmarks in Firefox. That’s it! It’s good cos I can see if there’s a new post without having to wait for the webpage to load or remember where all the archive links are kept, etc etc. I have about 9 blogs that I check, I check them whenever I’m online and bored. If I want to read something, I want to read it on the person’s site, so a title is better even than a short excerpt. Since Firefox can read all feed formats, I don’t care whether it’s one of the countless RSS standards or Atom. Or if it’s valid/invalid/whatever. As long as it just works.

Mark Kenny

<ol> <li>— Opera Browser. Because I like Opera’s all in one solution (browser, e-mail, contacts, RSS reader, notes).</li> <li>About 150.</li> <li>— Between one hour and one week.</li> <li>— Maybe complete articles.</li> <li>— Yes, read comments — if the article is interesting.</li> <li>— No.</li> </ol>

Oswald

I usually use Sage extension for Firefox. I subscribe to maybe a dozen and prefer excertps so I can quickly see if there is something of interest. I then visit the site to read the article. My prefered “format” is RSS 1.0 but it doesn’t really matter when it comes to my reading a feed as long as it works.

WD Milner

<ol> <li>Vienna, because it works well and is free.</li> <li>somewhere in the range of 50, but I don’t read all of them all the time.</li> <li>Vienna does it for me on startup, and every 30min.</li> <li>Complete articles, so I can read it in either the feed reader OR the browser, my choice.</li> <li>Not as often, but occasionally.</li> <li>None as long as it’s widely supported.</li> </ol>

Alex

<ol> <li>I’m using Safari’s built in reader — it’s not the best, but it’s well integrated and I don’t feel like paying or using any of the free apps.</li> <li>32 feeds; I’m picky.</li> <li>I think it’s checking hourly.</li> <li>Full articles — I can’t stand changing formats or apps to read something I should have been able to read in the first place. I do still visit the site to comment and browse around.</li> <li>As long as the feed supports proper date formatting, I couldn’t care less.</li> </ol>

eric

NewsFire, atom.

sime

Vienna, 20 Feeds. Lange Zeit war für mich NewsFire die beste Lösung. Als UI-Freak ist mir eine schöne, durchdachte Oberfläche wichtiger als 3 Funktionen mehr. Nachdem NewsFire kostenpflichtig und instabiler wurde konnte ich mich nicht für den Kauf entscheiden und lebte sogar etwa ein halbes Jahr ohne Newsreader. Seit einem Monat bin ich nun glücklich mit Vienna, welches die Eleganz von NewsFire plus Stabilität plus ein paar nette Funktionen hat.

Thomas

Well, let’s just say this is sort of a survey.. And since we have a survey I’ve got to say that I don’t read any feeds at all, there’s already way to much other stuff that distracts me from work so I’m better off without it. So count me as a non-reader. Therefor, I actually don’t have a favourite application to check on my feeds..

Jörg

Im Moment habe ich 237 Feeds (inkl. meinen selbstprogrammierten 3 Feeds zur Kontrolle) abonniert. Ich lese sie mit Win/FeedDemon. Ich bevorzuge Einleitung als Feed-Kontext. Ganze Artikel entsprechen nicht den semantischen Prinzipien des <description>-Elements. Ausserdem sind Artikel immer einfacher auf der normalen Website zu lesen. Zwischen Atom und RSS mache ich grundsäzlich keinen Unterschied,jedoch entscheide ich mich immer für RSS wenn es darum geht einen der beiden zu wählen.

Martin Labuschin

Ach ja, ich prüfe mit FeedDemon meine Feeds alle 5 Minuten.

Martin Labuschin

I use Safari (!) as my RRS reader. I usually have safari open all day long, being a webdesigner and all, so it updates my 40 feeds every 30 minutes. I rather read just a summary of the post, cause people usually put so much work to make their sites pretty that it’s a shame that you never visit it for real ;-)

Fernando Lucas

My Default RSS reader is Vienna in my ibook. And for a web agregrator i use Google reader, usually i use google reader at my office.

Kuswanto

I just use Safari’s built in RSS reader

Wouter Postma

I use Bloglines. Have tried a ton of other ones but always come back to Bloglines. It is fast, reliable, I can access it anywhere, and I like the read/unread/keep as new semantics. Subscribed to “only” 62 feeds (because I religiously clean out my list so that I can read every article that comes out of those sources). Check frequently through the day (as often as email). Prefer full articles so that I never have to visit the actual web site; only visit the site occasionally read/post comments. No preferences about atom vs rss.

Ari

GreatNews is my favorite reader for many reasons such as layout, content, searches, keywords, and the ability to subscribe directly from within my browser (Firefox using the extension Feed Your Reader). I’ve tried various readers with the “best of the rest” being Thunderbird. I don’t like online readers because when I am offline I obviously have not content. GreatNews is also free but is only a Beta so far so I guess the freeness will expire. I’m subscribed to 98 feeds as of today, have 6 searches, 4 news watches and 6 labels. I’ve set GreatNews to check for news stuff every 30 minutes. I prefer the complete article because it saves time. If the article is of interest enough and appears that there may be something further at the site then I will usually visit it in my browser. I don’t use the internal browser of GreatNews because it is IE based and I’m quite security concious. I can’t comment on my favorite feed type because I don’t know the difference. I will now go and do some research and may come back later.

Albyxx

The best aggregator I’ve used is RSS Bandit, and I’ve used just about every aggregator available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. RSS Bandit is hands-down the best. Since I’m mostly in Linux now I use Liferea, which is the worst aggregator except for all the other Linux aggregators. I haven’t found a web-based app that makes me happy so I just read on my laptop. I check once a day, I have about 100 feeds. I could care less the flavor of the feed (rss2 v. atom). I prefer full-text feeds.

todd

Bloglines — 40 feeds — search three times a day — use os X and windows — depending on what I’m doing. Does me — clip anything interesting

Leon Cych

I use self-hosted Gregarius, subscribe to 198 feeds, and check every couple of hours. I usually just read the newest 50-or-so items during the day, then in the evening, I’ll plough through the rest of the entries. I used to use Bloglines, but its interface is still the same clunky one that’s been in place since it launched, and they seem more focused on adding features like “horoscopes” than fixing broken feed parsing.

Rod Begbie

<ol> <li>Google Personalized Homepage — loads quickly, and I can view my feeds from work, home, anywhere.</li> <li>22</li> <li>3 — 4 times a day</li> <li>Google Personalized Home page only displays the title of the article</li> <li>I like to visit the actual site to read the article</li> <li>I usually just take whatever the site offers…Google seems to be able to handle all formats. If given a choice between Atom or RSS, I generally choose RSS though (for not particular reason).</li> </ol>

Dawn

about 60 feeds using google reader (i’m on multiple computers every day and i dont want to constantly install software.

jasoniscool

<ol> <li>I use NewsFire. I just bought a license and switched from NetNewsWire. Why? I tend to prefer better-designed applications, even if they may have less features than a competitor (no in-app web browser, which I don’t even use).</li> <li>About 140 feeds, but the list is always growing.</li> <li>I set NewsFire for every 20 minutes. Kind of an arbitrary number though.</li> <li>I don’t care much either way, but if I had to choose, I would prefer full posts for offline viewing.</li> <li>If I’m online, I’ll generally read about a sentence of the post and then, if it interests me, I’ll finish it online. I like to see the comments and possibly colored syntax (along with other special formatting).</li> <li>The only reason I sort of like RSS is due to the name, it has quite a nice ring to it. Besides that, RSS doesn’t have much else going for it — the spec is split three ways. After comparing the specs, I chose Atom.</li> </ol>

Matt Widmann

<ol> <li>NewsMac pro — I love the way it looks, the search and the tabs.</li> <li>24, I did have more but found I wasn’t using them</li> <li>Every hour</li> <li>The whole article! Because I thought the purpose of RSS is to make finding your news easy in one place, not finding short sentances that take you to new places.</li> <li>Yes — mainly for comments though</li> <li>No</li> </ol>

Rob

NNW. around 90 feeds Love reading articles inside NNW. Right now I am in a commuter situation and thus I love sitting in the train or bus and read all the articles. me.

me.

I mostly just use the Live Bookmarks feature in Firefox, where I have about 40 feeds saved to a folder on my bookmarks toolbar. I also use Google’s personalized home page, which shows headlines from Google News, Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and CreativeBits. I haven’t really found a use for an external newsreader yet, or even the Safari-style feed view in the browser. I just like browsing headlines and jumping to the actual site if there’s something interesting. As far as feed types go, I used to support RSS 2.0.. but then I discovered that Atom was a superior format. I’ll still refer to it as an RSS feed though. -----

Jon Roberts