1 - When you click the ‘Home’ button, shouldn’t everything refresh? That just makes sense to me.

Didn’t I answer this? I did, I even gave two answers!

3 - Ahh, so when you flag an item, it becomes an entirely seperate item?

Huh? Perhaps I’m not following, but flagging an item just makes it show up in the list of flagged items.

Why should I have to tag a feed, then go and tag an item I flag from that feed?

You don’t have to tag anything.

your whole idea of seperate tags for feeds, items, and flagged items seems a tag confusing to me…

Tag a feed, it shows up tagged in the feeds list. Tag an item, it shows up in the tagged items list. Flag an item, it shows up in the flagged items list. Seems pretty simple to me.

The history feature is no substitute for a search utility.

Did I say it was?

1 - When you click the ‘Home’ button, shouldn’t everything refresh? That just makes sense to me. I don’t think everything should refresh every time you click on a particular feed to view its contents, although making sure that particular feed has the right number of unread entries displayed next to it would help (I’ve had several instances where I’d click a blog, see 4 items, but only have a (3) next to the feed name).

2 - I hadn’t noticed any hover name for items. Since FeedLounge is down ATM, I can’t check and see, so I’ll take your word for it.

3 - Ahh, so when you flag an item, it becomes an entirely seperate item? Why should I have to tag a feed, then go and tag an item I flag from that feed? As I’ve said, I’m not big on tags. I much prefer to sort things into folders, rather than manually typing tags for each item. That’s just the way I work. Despite that, your whole idea of seperate tags for feeds, items, and flagged items seems a tag confusing to me… Again, maybe that’s just me.

4 - No, I haven’t used the History screen, and I see where it would come in handy in this instance. However, I can cite numerous times where I’ve read something in a blog in my RSS reader (like a security bulletin from Microsoft, for instance), and then gone back to look for it later, not to remember when (or even where) I had read it. Was it actually in the Microsoft feed, or was it a comment made about it when someone else linked to it in their blog? Aww, crap. I also don’t remember WHEN I read it. The history feature is no substitute for a search utility. It seems like such a simple and sometimes pointless feature, until you need it and it’s not there…

Thanks for your comments, Alex. Still glad to see you guys are paying attention to your users!

Chris Meller has written up a great review of FeedLounge.
I’ve added a couple of responses to a few of the points on my blog.

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