Update to my FeedDemon Problems

Wednesday, June 04 2008

Apparently others are having issues with feeds in FeedDemon too. It looks like it might be specific to feeds on blogs.msdn.com. According to a helpful forum member on NewsGator’s support forums in this thread – its not FeedDemon that is the issue, its NewsGator Online. It is suggested that for any blogs.msdn.com feeds that you move them all into a new folder that is not synchronized with NewsGator Online.

I have several problems with this.

First off: where is the communication from NewsGator on this issue? This is a nasty big issue. Sure, it only looks like it might be a problem with blogs.msdn.com but how can I be sure? How do I not know other feeds are having problems? FeedDemon simply stopped updating these feeds. No errors. No nothing. I would never know when a feed goes into this bogus state. NewsGator has yet to respond to the support forums (or the specific thread linked to above).

Secondly – I’m expected to move almost 100 blogs.msdn.com feeds into a entirely separate folder just to get these feeds to update? Meh. 

Unfortunately this is all becoming too much hassle. I’ve moved back to Windows Live Mail and the Windows RSS Feed Store. If I’m going to lose the sync feature FeedDemon offers with it’s NewsGator Online for a bunch of my feeds with no idea when the issue will be fixed I mind as well just ditch FeedDemon and syncing my feeds all together for something I know at least updates my feeds. A few friends recommended (of course) Google Reader to me as well so I may give that a spin too.

Thanks to Kip for looking into this issue who is also having this problem as well.

Tags: rss, feeddemon, newsgator, feeds, windows-live-mail, windows-rss-feed-store, problems, google-reader