Krzysztof Kowalczyk weblog:
Bloglines has its problems and Newsgator, overall, looks nice, but the slow speed of switching to another feed is a deal-breaker.
This could be a problem for me down the line, since the imminent release of NNW 2.1 will move from Bloglines sync to Newsgator. I've been very happy with the Bloglines sync in NNW. It's enabled me to keep my reading (currently 558 feeds) synced up between my Treo, a few various desktops, and the web. The 2.1 betas are still syncing my Bloglines subs, and AFAIK there's no reason they couldn't continue to do so - the feed url points into Bloglines, and unless there's other stuff under the hood, it should still work. What could go away, though, would be the ability to import new subs into NNW from Bloglines. Though one thing that has been painful is the complicated dance to subscribe from Firefox - use Bloglines Toolkit to subscribe to a blog, switch to NNW, open the Special Subscription-> Bloglines menu item, download the new subs, select and import. Clumsy. As to the Newsgator switch, I imagine there'd be some sort of reasonably painless migration process, but reports like this aren't making me too happy.
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