NetNewsWire seems to “just work” and it scaled up to the initialnumber of feeds and items I had (about 4,000). I didn’t test it working with 14,000 which was where Vienna started slowing down.

Like I said, I’m using NewsFire now. Why? Because I’m willing to try out gadgets and new things. It really annoys me that I can’t manually order the feeds (FeedLounge had the same problem), but I’m trying to like the way it “wants” me to read feeds: newest first.

There’s actually quite a lot of advantage to ordering feeds, esp. when you subscribe to comments for feeds. It’s silly to read comments before you read the feed item they’re commenting on.

So, I’ll give NewsFire a few more days, but if it’s lack of manual ordering gets on my nerves, I’ll probably load up NetNewsWire.

NewsFire is fast, though. That much is nice. And, of course, it looks great.

Try several styles util you find one you like. I’m using Ollicle Reflex (http://tinyurl.com/2qvgs9) at the moment.

Try using groups as precendence bundles. I have several groups, each of which contain several feeds. I order the groups in the order of the importance of the feeds therein, so I can always be up-to-date on the most important stuff.

I recently switched from a ‘home hosted’ lylina river of news aggregator, to Google Reader. Mostly for performance and availability reasons, and must say, the Google Reader rocks. I should have made the switch months ago. Tagging, starring, sharing and the ‘new’ key driven interface make for quick and easy reading.