Hello,

There are still some unrecognized yet valid RSS feeds. For example http://linuxfr.org/backend/news/rss20.rss does not currently work.

Do you plan working on that issue ?

Many thanks for your great soft

Julien

Any chance you’ll implement something like Inquisitor’s predictive search into Newsfire?

David, are you looking for localizers ?

:o)

Eric.

I just noticed that “hiding” a feed is no longer available. I used this to create complex smart feeds. Now my feed list is polluted with feeds I need but do not need to see. :( Will this be coming back?

I must say that I agree with Kurt – I used the feed-hiding option extensively and found it most useful. I fact I found it to be one of NewsFire’s most useful features, especially when dealing with lots of smart-feeds.
I petition for its return!
After all it’s only an option – people are not obliged to use it if they dislike it, as you clearly do. Why do you believe it to have been a mistake?
Would you please consider returning feed-hiding to v1.2, David?
Many thanks for an excellent and elegant program!

Personally, I use feed hiding to assemble a large collection of news sources, and then I use smart feeds to filter out the news that I don’t want to see. I have something like 30 Smart Feeds, each of which provides news on a specific topic (there’s one on George Bush, one from The Economist’s Print Edition and Global Adgenda, one on Benelux, etc.). I have all of these Samrt Feeds classified into more general Groups. Therefore, all of my news is focused and much easier to manipulate for me personally. If I want to read about China, I go into the Asia group, and click on the China Smart Feed, which covers everything about the PRC (I have a separate feed for the ROC). It’s all organized and micromanaged, just the way I like it.

So, naturally, all that I had visible were the Groups and their respective Smart Feeds. The base feeds were all hidden – why go through the BBC Asia feed when I can have it compartmentalized for my pleasure? In fact, that was what drew me to NewsFire; the ability to have all the news compartmentalized so that I coudl read it at my leisure. I’m not going to go through the entire Forbes feed, because most of it is businees-related, but if one article is pulled into one of my topical Smart Feeds, then I will.

Basically, it’s all about how you use NewsFire. I prefer a micro-managed layout, which I find easier to digest. I don’t want 113 feeds lying around – on top of all the groups and smart feeds, because they are useless to me. I would rather have them do their work in the background, and present me with the news that I want to read, without the hassle. That’s my use-case.