Praise for FeedLounge

We’re getting some nice responses to FeedLounge already:

Stephen O’Grady:

now’s your chance to sign up for what I consider the best feed reading experience available.

DeWitt Clinton:

I had the pleasure of participating in their alpha program and think they have tremendous potential. That and they are simply very nice guys and I love the way they have communicated about building the product.

John Tokash:

The UI is more pleasant, professional and powerful than the other web based aggregators. Serious AJAX going on here.

Scott Jarkoff:

Does the service live up to the “hype” that has been growing since the announcement? While there are still some quirks to be ironed out, overall the service is exceptional.

Matt Tancock:

Bloglines is dead! Long live Feedlounge!

Chris Hubbs:

FeedLounge has an amazing user interface, good enough that though it’s just a web page, it tempts you to think that you’re running a separate application.

Andrew West:

I’ve been an alpha tester on the FeedLounge web-based RSS feed reader for six months or so, and I’m very impressed with it. It’s the only online service I’ve seen that handles my ~200 feeds without slowing down or just making a mess.

Justin Merz:

First and foremost you must remind yourself that this is not a desktop application. Which is hard to do with the amazing UI that feedlounge implements.

P.F. Flyer:

I admit I was skeptical while waiting for the public release. When it was finally released last week, I wasn’t incredibly impressed. It looked pretty much like any other RSS Reader. However, it took a day of playing around with it to truly begin to understand how different it was from the rest of the crowd.

Brainpipe:

And the highest praise of all: Finally, an online RSS reader that Just Works™.

Dougal Campbell:

This is one of the few web-based applications that I’d ever consider paying for.

It’s great to see this kind of response!

Of course, not all of the feedback has been positive. Some people strongly dislike the monthly fee¹, others have run into problems (many of which have been fixed). As Geof discusses, we’ve been very transparent about everything we’re doing here with FeedLounge² and we’ll keep working to make FeedLounge the best feed reading experience out there.

1. More on this in a future post. [back]
2. I’ve been tagging all FeedLounge mentions I see on del.icio.us [back]