Back in my Feed on Feeds days, I’d topped out at a little over 300 feeds aggregated regularly. [Okay, 323.] Now, using FeedLounge, I’m at 351 and growing.
FoF wasn’t scaling for me, both in its aggregation [it often caused CPU spikes and would hang mercilessly] and in its ability to let me sift through the aggregated results quickly and easily. The thing with power aggregating in 2005 is this: you’re going to pull in a lot of stuff that you really don’t care about. That’s because feeds are generally released by content producers, and content producers are never going to publish stuff that you’re 100% interested in. [The exception to that rule might be personal sites of close friends, but even then, my friends sometimes write about things that just don't interest me.]
But an aggregator that allows you to view new items in multiple ways will allow you to cross-section the information you’re aggregating in as many ways, and the end result is that you’re left with a better experience.
My experience is far more than just 9% better [in terms of feeds aggregated]. It’s probably … 50% better, at a minimum. So good that, in fact, I just dumped Feed on Feeds from my box. Bye bye, my lovely 10MB feed items datastore…
To file under the “weird dot.net dreams” category, I dreamed last night that FeedLounge was available for general use and I was asking you to set it up for me… let’s hope it was just the pain meds talking.
Thank the Good Lord that I won’t have anything to set up. You’ll just save off your OPML from FoF, import it into FeedLounge, wait for it to populate everything, and go on with life.
Chances are that a large number of your feeds will already be stuff I’m subscribed to, so the import process should go swiftly.
I signed up to be a beta tester, and I’m chomping at the bit for my invitation.
Hey, are you still going to give us screenshots, Geof?
I don’t have any input on the invitations, really.
And yes, at some point…