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Excellent find, Colin! I already installed it and loaded my OPML list (500+ channels) into it. Unlike FeedDemon, which becomes more unusable the more feeds you add, the amount of feeds leaves GreatNews totally unimpressed! Here are my first findings:
Things I like:
- faaast, even with my 500+ feeds!
- CPU/memory resource-friendly
- doesn't require .NET framework
- uses SQLite database instead of flat files (which is the main reason for speed)
- tree hierarchy
- supports CSS style sheets
- displays errors while downloading feeds (marking them red)
- RSS links can open in external browser such as Firefox
- tight Bloglines integration
- News watches (lightning fast!) - also colors keywords automatically
- Bookmark support (called labels here)
Things I don't like:
- doesn't support 304 conditional-gets (BAD!)
- doesn't support gzipping (BAD!)
- stops on invalid feeds instead of giving the user the option to ignore error
- doesn't allow to specify feed-individual update intervals
- doesn't support more complex style sheets (XSL)
- doesn't filter potentially dangerous html tags? (java scripts, etc.)
- doesn't support unrecognized feed encodings
- still has trouble with some feeds
- rudimentary connection settings (no proxy support, no way to control amount of max connections or time-out values)
- doesn't support favicons
- doesn't integrate with blog software
- search news item doesn't work? (strg+h)
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