After a little over a day of using FeedLounge, some more thoughs …

1. I’m really not kidding when I say that I’m killing my Feed of Feeds installation. Just as soon as this thing is out of beta, I’m canning it. I might even stop supporting it on my box entirely. There’s gonna be a free version of FeedLounge, and it’ll support most anyone’s needs. FoF has been really hurting my server lately, as its queries were really spiking the CPU when I was trying to aggregate a lot of feeds. I had to take it off of background updating every half-hour just to keep from having to reboot Apache and MySQL all the time.
2. I’ve quickly grokked most of the keyboard shortcuts. I still like to click on stuff, but I’m using the keyboard about 1/3 to 1/2 the time, which is about standard for me in any application, thin client or thick.
3. The quick nature of how Alex and Scott respond to bug reports and minor feature requests is astounding. Now, I know that some of the stuff we’re reporting is stuff they knew about in part, but still … to borrow a line from the PGA, “These guys are good.
4. I love, love, love to be able to rename and tag my feeds. It soothes my organizational tendencies. I’ve got a filing approach for tagging feeds; I’m sure that I’ll be more of a cloud user when tagging items. [Confused? See Gene Smith on Filing v. Annotative Tagging or Clay Shirky on Tag Sets Bad, Tag Clouds Good, both on Tagsonomy.com.]

I’ll be snaring screenshots at the office tomorrow [this machine at home is too puny to make Photoshop a non-frustrating experience] for my alpha-period review.