I have been using MyYahoo to read RSS feeds for longer than I remember.  But it simply doesn’t work with my needs these days.  The next iteration of feed reading in Yahoo Mail looks less than promising.  As a matter of fact, it looks and feels downright awful.  They really need to reconsider basic aspects of the design.  One long list of feeds just doesn’t cut it. I support open-source movements for many reasons, but RSSBandit just didn’t have the right aesthetic for me. 

Any application that you spend a large quantity of time using should give you a warm feeling and I just didn’t get it from RSSBandit. I track hundreds of feeds and need offline reading capabilities.   I need to be able to synch local feeds to an online source, such as Newsgator, which RSSBandit and FeedDemon both seem to do equally well.

The biggest reason I chose FeedDemon:  the user-interface.  It’s clean and intuitive.  Add a feed to the clipboard and then attempt to subscribe to a new feed in FeedDemon — it knows what you’re trying to do.  The feed from the clipboard will magically appear in the subscription wizard.

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