klaas4saidthis

Slow and a lot of crashes! Exactly how I wanted, except that.

It really uses a lot of my GPU power and memory
* Make the layout more customizable
* Show me which feeds I already added to a page
* take care of all the crashes!

I really like this app, it's very promising and I hope to see some updates in the future that really improve it.

Nice idea. Bad implementation.
Premature release. (Crashes, crashes, crashes...) Stlll needs lots of work to behave properly.
But... Now that Vienna and NetNewsWire are both free (Vienna has always been free), I wonder who's gonna pay 30 dollars for a RSS reader. I agree that Times' interface is something different, but is it worth the price, compared to those two free RSS readers?

Positives first, it is kind of nice to look at a newspaper layout of your RSS feeds… But the positives ends there. If you are having more then 30 feeds you will go absolutely crazy in a day or two trying to keep up with your RSS feeds. As an example, there is now way to see which are the latest feeds! If the app refreshes every 10 min, the previous “new” feeds gets unmarked. So leaving the app running for an hour going to lunch (having Times set to check for new feeds every 10 min) you come back and have no clue which are the unread feeds (obviously there is now way to tell how many unread feeds you have either). Organizing your feeds is nightmarish. Let say you import 100 feeds (I did 42). The feeds gets placed in a feed drawer, from there you drag and drop your feeds into “pages” you have created (pages being like Times equal to Folders with the difference that you have to put a feed on a page in order to read the feed). So you drag and drop your feeds onto the pages and very quickly you have no clue which feeds you already placed and which other you have not. So you scroll down, look at the other pages, take out pen and paper to keep notes on what you are doing… This is a joke! It will drive less patient people with loads of feeds up the walls in a matter of minutes. It costs 30 bucks and is beta software. Crashes and buggs, beware!!! This is just eye candy without function. The whole point of RSS is to digest information in an easy manner, Times makes it harder then any other RSS reader. This is form before function – bad design! Do not get seduced by the eye candy, take the candy away and you have buggy beta software that does not focus on the applications main objective – reading and organizing your RSS feeds!

I completely agree, and the interface isn't that useful anyway.

Times is beautiful and innovative, and takes some serious risks by being so different. Maybe it works for you, maybe not, but you can't deny that it's apps like these that make the Mac platform fun and exciting. I think it will be very useful in handling my "browsing" feeds like Digg and Engadget, where I just don't have time to read every single story.

It does LOOK good but it crashes repeatedly.

I really like this RSS reader. The way I see it, this isn't an RSS reader for those who want to read every little article, but for those who just browse headlines and such; wanting just to keep up with what's going on rather than reading up on the details. Good idea and well implemented. As for the crashing issues, I haven't been running into them, but I've been barely been using it.

For my own personal use, I'd just use NetNewsWire for all of the feeds that I want to read all the way through and Times for feeds on subjects that I'm not as interested in, but would like to know about (Politics, Entertainment, etc...).

Note: I haven't bought the app, but I probably will at some point in the future.

This app has a great user interface, but is lacking in functionality. A very promising app though. Looking forward to future enhancements. Until then, I will save my $$ and use one of the free RSS readers.

30 bucks for an RSS reader? Even if it would make coffee along with it that's too much, considering what it does. And it'll have to compete with the now free NetNewsWire. 15 bucks and I would probably consider it, once it's out of its growing pains.

Great interface and nice functionalities.
but this thing is still very much in Beta state. It crashes repeatedly, not just the program but twice brought down my macbook. You can file as many bug reports but the developer never replies.

My recommendation - WAIT for version 2.
Definitely doesn't deserve $30 for what it is.

Just to note, I think the developer has clearly worked to make it more stable, and it doesn't crash nearly so much now and I can easily leave it in the background without too much bother.
I really like how it works and the whole idea behind it. You need to approach it with an open mind, and not be wanting to use it just like NetNewsWire or whatever (I used endo before).
I seriously cut down the amount of feeds I had, and then grouped them much more rigorously, so I found I had enough feeds in a 'Politics' group to fill more than one page in Times, so split it into sections (World, U.S., U.K. and Europe) I did a few more pages, so I guess with about five or six feeds page I probably subscribe to at least forty feeds, across eight pages.
I turned off marking new articles, because I didn't really want it - it kinda interferes with the whole way I read now with this. I also turned the page curl off, as pretty as it is, it kinda got in the way.
Since I got this I started to spread my feeds around, more applicable to the application. Some work very well in Mail.app I feel, a few in Safari and I now use XTorrent for rss torrent feeds.
This app is great if you look at it as almost starting again with your RSS, but if you really don't want to live without being able to skim over 5000 technology blogs, then it certainly isn't for you.

Nice idea... still needs work.

It's a nice looking interface, but the functionality is limited... I'll stick to NetNewsReader. $30??? For limited functionality This should be Beta at the least. I label it crippleware...

Just wanted to note that there is nothing inherently 'limited' in Times other than the fact that it is a 1.0 product and growing. We're always open to suggestions and feature requests (times@acrylicapps.com), but labeling Times as 'crippleware' or suggesting it is a beta product is simply misleading and wrong.

It crashes most of the time

Don't mind, bitnix. You are just giving your opinion, and it's great to hear (building criticism, translated with translator-widget).

It would indeed be cool if I could implement that. The only way I know how is to use php with the strip commands. This is, as far as I know, the only way, because Fluther's still working on API's. But it would indeed be cooler, and helps to be more productive.

Thanks for your great suggestions. Davey.