September 24th, 2004

Im now running PulpFiction Lite and NewsFire at the same time to determine who will claim my ‘best rss reader’ award. So far, PulpFiction has a lot of black marks against its name, so NewsFire doesnt have to do much to take the crown.

PulpFiction Lite just seems too complicated and doesnt do the basic things that well. For example, when i have a lot of saved feeds, it starts running dog slow. Each time i start it up i cant do anything else for about 5 mins until it has downlaoded and checked for new feeds. I find this kinda annoying, it shouldnt be this slow.
Also, it keeps losing/finding unread feeds. It displays that i have so many unread feeds, yet if i sort by unread i get nothing. WHERE ARE THE UNREAD FEEDS???

So yeah, I think PulpFiction went for too many features (that i never use) and for some reason its dodgy on the basic things of rss feed reading / speed.

NewsFire is fast, simple, with no bloat and unecessary ‘features’ and its only in beta.