Rodent Regatta

Today I decided to check out another RSS reader by exporting my RSS feeds to an OPML file and importing it into the new reader. Aren’t you impressed by that sentence?

Earlier I mentioned human bandwidth. I see RSS feeds and readers as one way to leverage time. Yet, I was astonished to learn that my export of RSS subscriptions resulted in 352 feeds! FeedDemon apparently has a limit of 150 feeds, and it comes out of the download with some feeds already subscribed. FeedDemon groups subscriptions into something called ”listings.” (SharpReader calls these groupings ”categories.”) Perhaps the limitation is 150 subscriptions per listing. However, there doesn’t appear to be any way to preserve the categories I’ve got set in SharpReader when exporting to the OPML file.

So, I’ll be hanging on to SharpReader for quite some time until I decide how to deal with the limitations.

It may be time to decide what NOT to read!

• * * UPDATE * * *

It seems the 150 feed limitation in FeedDemon must be related to 150 feeds in a listing. I haven’t explicitly tested that, but I’ve got in excess of 300 feeds moved into FeedDemon now.

Can anybody give me any hints as to why my images don’t show up correctly in FeedDemon? When I look at Rodent Regatta in FeedDemon, the images don’t render; all I get is placeholders.