FeedDemon 2.8 beta shows numerous improvements

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FeedDemon 2.8 beta shows numerous improvements

by Lee Mathews Nov 13th 2008

Yesterday BradSoft announced the second beta of FeedDemon 2.8, the popular desktop newsreader for Windows.

Bugfix work continues, and the user interface has been streamlined - which developer Nick Bradbury refers to as "toolbutton slaughter." The new sharing and tagging icons caused some overcrowding, but users who still want the old icons displayed can customize the settings under options -> reading.

Several tag-related features have been added. FeedDemon's subscription home page now includes a tag cloud, making it easy to access similar posts you've tagged. Tags can also be dragged and dropped onto posts, and tagged items can be exluded when purging old news items.

The addition of automated error reporting to the previous version allowed Bradbury to correct nearly 30 issues. So far, the changes have made FeedDemon faster, easier to use, and more stable than ever.

For a full list of bugfixes and changes, check the Bradsoft release notes.

[ via gHacks ]

Tags: newsreader, rss

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Vadi said 10:03AM on 11-15-2008

Not too impressive, considering Liferea has been doing most of this stuff for a long while (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/, http://tinyurl.com/6dy9mw)

MonkeyLove said 10:51PM on 11-16-2008

Try GreatNews.

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