Miha Hribar, freelance web developer, student of computer and information science

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20th September 2006 | permanent link
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Bye bye Rojo, hello Newshutch!

I've had it. Rojo was offline over the weekend (I was a nervous wreck lacking my daily news feed, shaking, screaming...ok not really, but a real annoyance non the less). Apparently they decided to update their feedreading service and forgot to warn their trusted users that the service will be unavailible for a while. Not a good move, but I was being a good sport, waiting patiently. When the service was available again they moved the starting page. Nothing too drastic, but they could've at least written an explanation that the service was updated and redirected to the right page. The next thing I noticed is that their "updated service" is not so up to date. Whole feeds fail to appear, despite it being noted that there are new entries in that feed. Load time have also increased drasticaly and nowadays who with a broadban connection wants to wait for a page to load.

I guess I'm not the most patient web user in the world, but it's the little things that matter to me. So bye bye Rojo.

And hello Newshutch. So far I'm impressed with the simplicity of the design and the application. So simple but oh-so usefull. No mocking about. Add the feeds, and ajax does the rest. I don't think I'll be changing again any time soon.

tags: newshutch, rants, rojo

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Milos, posted on 21st of September 2006 @ 7:50: Jep... Newshutch is great. I've been using the service for a while now, even blogged about it about a month ago. It's simple, easy to use and to the point... It does what it's suppose to do.
Miha, posted on 21st of September 2006 @ 12:50: @Milos: Yeap, me likes it very many. Don't know what that flag is for though, but I'll pick it up as I go along :)
Dragan Babić, posted on 21st of September 2006 @ 13:13: I know what you mean, I have left Rojo behind a couple of weeks ago. I really liked it at first, but they changed things way too often and the app was unstable. It preloaded everything... it just seemed like a work in progress - until forever.

Then I switched to newsGator which is awfull. I mean it won't let me export my OPML, what's that all about?!

I'm giving Newshutch a try now.
Milos, posted on 21st of September 2006 @ 15:57: @Miha: I don't use the "flag" feature... but check out Newshutch blog, there is a post about it.
Miha, posted on 21st of September 2006 @ 20:20: @Dragan: Yeah, I think Rojo has lost a lot of users since they were bought by Six Apart. The whole thing is too bloated and for users like me, who only want to read news, a lot of functionalities are useless.

@Milos: Thanks for the tip :)

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