It’s been 180 days since we announced the initial alpha release of FeedLounge.
When we first announced the alpha release we had been coding furiously on the project for several months, and expected to be going into beta within a month - maybe t…

Alas, it seems it won’t be available any time soon. Everytime I think online RSS I check this site to see if it’s been released to no-avail. Eventually I’m gonna forget about it, albiet non-intentially, because it’s never available to me.

Lucky beta-beta-alpha-beta-whatever testers.

I know you all have jobs and stuff, but I feel you announced your project far too early because these ‘alpha’ phases have been going on for so long, I know it will benefit us all in the end, but I think many people who were interested in the beginning have since lost interest and found alternative solutions to their rss needs - with that in mind you are facing a had time ahead because when you launch publicly you are going to have to have made really major progress to make it seem worthwhile - I better approach I feel would have been to get a simple working service out the door in the beginning and to have actively developed it whereby keeping your users happy and interested along the way with the new features. If your service will be free free when you finally make it available then I guess there is no argument, but generating bad feeling wont help you sell your service, and your service is becoming less unique and interesting by the month. However I still think you’ll still make a success of it, but I think you could have handled it all better and made a bigger success of it.

The FeedLounge guys released alpha 5, which felt fast to me at home yesterday. It’s positively snappy, though, here on my work machine, which is fast enough to see actual results. Given the speed improvements and the increased metadata mined o…

Excellent speed boost.

I also dig the River of News view.

Do show us some new screenshots, that would be nice.