Comment Cognitive Disconnect (Score 1) 287
Why do people keep suggesting that Twitter is somehow in any way a reasonable replacement for a good RSS client? I really don't get it, but maybe other people use RSS like twitter, or something...
I have many (~100) RSS feeds sorted into a few categories (one is news sites, one is webcomics, for example). Rather than manually polling all these sites I check my RSS list to scan through the post titles, then open new tabs *at the original site* for whatever items I actually want to read (control-click the little icon in Firefox). This makes sure the sites get their advertising and that I don't miss out on the things I want to know about. It's not rocket science, but it's been damn near impossible to find a tool that let me do this. It seems like a reasonable thing to want to do.
I guess the Open Source "way" is that I should start up a project with other disenfranchised code-savvy people and write something better, but I'm married with a full-time job and other issues with prior claim on my free time, so that ain't flying unless I win the lottery. Plus Google Reader is really slickly done. Everything else I've looked at is still crap by comparison in it's interface.