Comments on: Frustrating User Experiences: iPhone NetNewsWire and Newsgator

By: nevin

nevin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:23:57 +0000

It could be the number of feeds but I have the same problem as you (crashing at the same point) and I have under 15 feeds. NNW crashed on an article from Wired. Of course when it re-starts it tries to show what it was last looking at again, doesn’t like it and crashes again.

By: sreehari

sreehari — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:32:18 +0000

google reader is better anyway, i feel

nice blog! i hav bookmarked urs!

http://dailytechnoapps.blogspot.com/

By: dion

dion — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:21:31 +0000

Wes,

I have some feeds… but not quite that many! :)

By: dion

dion — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:17:49 +0000

Brian,

Brent is awesome. The main issue is on the NewsGator side, and not having a way to nicely tie profiles to a particular directory. If that was fixed, then I am sure everything would be OK :)

Cheers,

Dion

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:03:12 +0000

If you can get the iPhone app to load your massive feed library, you can then begin deleting the feeds from the iPhone app. Each time you delete one, it will ask if you want to remove it from your NewsGator account entirely, or simply exclude it from your iPhone profile.

This process can take awhile, but if the iPhone can cope (if only just) with your full feed list to begin with, it’s easier than picking feeds out of the flattened, alphabetical list online.

By: Wes Biggs

Wes Biggs — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:28:13 +0000

Hey, blogosphere synchronicity, as I was just reading NNW iPhone stats yesterday. You must be the guy they’re talking about!

“One NetNewsWire/iPhone user has over 2,800 feeds — wow!”

That must be how many it got to before you quit. :-)

http://blogs.newsgator.com/newsgator_widget_blog/2008/09/netnewswire-iph.html

You should ask them for your prize.

By: Brian Dillard

Brian Dillard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:16 +0000

Every single gripe I’ve had about NNW for the iPhone has been fixed on subsequent updates. Blogging/Twittering about it is good but filing bug reports/feature requests is even better. They’re amazingly responsive. I posted about obscure issues relating to Mozilla Prism screwing up NNW’s ability to open links in my default browser and got immediate back-and-forth dialogue with the developer.