Requests from a fan using feedreader for over a year


When 3.14 was released I must admit, the searching within feeds became much more faster and it did not crash as much. You guys did a great job with it.

One thing that frustrates me is that FR has so much potential, yet not that much stuff is being done with it, the lack of constant updates and the needs of some basic features will probably make me switch from FR to another program.

1) visual feedback of what feed is being updated. a simple loading icon in the bottom left of the program has NO BENEFIT what so ever, in my opinion. we need some visual feedback, such as possibly having the actual RSS icon for the feed to have the loading icon, to know that its being updated.

2) faster updates of RSS feeds. after trying out some other RSS prgorams it is apperant that this is possible. i think that the loading icon in the bottom left has some psychological implications as we tend to think that since it is always loading, the feeds are always loading.

3) when you add a new feed, and before you actually paste in the URL, you still see the feed which was loaded before. this makes most people think that its the feed you want to add. i think simply making the main RSS content window blank could solve this problem.