hey Everyone,<p>I built FeedRebel [ http://www.feedrebel.com ] partly because I needed a feed reader myself but mainly because it ties in nicely with an idea that I've been working on. For those of you that are still on the fence when it comes to choosing a Google Reader alternative, I would love it if you could give FeedRebel a try and let me know your thoughts.<p>I realize that there are quite a few options out there already with some big launches yet to come. I look forward to your comments and thoughts.<p>Thank you
This is pretty neat. I'll definitely use it for awhile to see if I can get used to it. One small nitpick: After I imported all my feeds, I had to rename my feeds which is not a problem because the names of my feeds are terrible by default. But when I tried to rename them one by one, after each time I changed one of them, the sidebar on the left hand side hide the rest of my feeds. Don't think that's a good practice. I have all this big space[1], why does it have to cut off? I don't think this is good for browsing as well. I wouldn't want to click "show more" every time I log in to the website to see if there's any new items on my feeds that are hidden.<p>Couple of other points:<p>- Thanks a lot for the folder support. I've tried a lot of good Google Reader alternatives lately but none of them (for some strange reason) had folder support. That's such an essential feature.<p>- Chrome/Firefox extensions would be great. Nothing too complicated. Just one to let us know how many unread items we have.<p>- It'd be much better if you place the notification window right below. It sometimes gets in the way.<p>- I couldn't see any export option. Am I missing it or it's not there?<p>- Drag and drop would be much more practical to move the feeds between folders.<p>Best of luck!<p>[1] <a href="http://i.imgur.com/xJjFOnY.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/xJjFOnY.png</a>
I would defiantly use this. I love how fast it works and how clean the interface is.<p>Quick notes:
- Why required a minimum of 6 letters for a username?
- Defiantly needs an option to make Feed Version the default view (unless it's there and I missed it)
- It seems like Unicode is not supported (<a href="http://d.pr/i/Ptwk" rel="nofollow">http://d.pr/i/Ptwk</a>)<p>The last two would make me ditch theoldreader for FeedRebel :)
The product looks great, but one nitpick; when viewed on a 1080p monitor, the JPEG artifacts in your landing page screenshot are pretty awful looking. A losslessly compressed png would be a good alternative.