Beautiful app, I recommend using it with Netnewswire as far as getting your feeds, but you can only export from NNW in OPML so you'll need to enter them manually..... however it is the best RSS collector I have used.
I highly recommend the devs get this working with OPML to interact with NNW. If you can't use OPML and have to do this manually, this app will get left behind with the next mobilerss update.
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OK, After looking around with it here is my main issue. The interface is BEAUTIFUL. It is a very good looking app. Most people that use RSS use an RSS hub on their computer. (a program such as netnewswire). We've discussed the need for OPML already (the export for most hubs) and why they need to be used since feeds can get very long, so we'll skip over that and get to the meat.
Using most RSS hubs I can simply get the feeds by clicking "copy feed url". What I would normally do with that next is paste it into an XML.config file or a text file and import it into an RSS reader.
Your RSS reader stores the feeds and their URL's as a .DAT file so I cannot even import the feeds using a text file, nor can I have the option to paste the feeds into ANY file in the substructure. What you'd call an "easy" interface has amounted into a large amount of manual work with absolutely no way to import feeds. No OPML, no drag and drop, no text file import.......nothing. Solid manual insertion, and there's nothing easy nor simple about it.
From the mobile/library folder we get this:
The .DAT files containing the feeds and information. Each .DAT file is a feed. Since the name of each .DAT file is a long and generated key, I cannot even insert a generic .DAT file for each feed I want to import.
The only people I'd ever suspect to come up with something so locked down is Apple themselves. This site and the others amongst us are a site full of modders. We are much more receptive to something we can work with. This app does not look like it was developed to be a free app, rather it looks like an app that was targeted towards the apple store.
So here's what I'd like to see, and I can promise you I speak for many as you have already seen in this thread.
(a)- Ability to import feeds using OPML.
(b)- Ability to import feeds using a text file. (as an option to OPML)
(c)- Ability to EXPORT feeds in the form of something other than .DAT (I'm not dying for this option, but it will come with the territory if you make either of the above options work).
(d)- As a side note, in the applications folder Resources is spelled Re
ssources. Even if intentional and not a typo, it can screw you up when searching the phone for your data.