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@matt,
All you need to do in GR is click the subscriptions link at the top and you can browse feed by feed or tag by tag. 1 extra click is not “impossible� or “more difficult� if you ask me.

No, but it is annoying, and performance isn’t exactly ‘lightning fast’ in GR. When click on subscriptions you have to wait for it to load up your subscriptions, etc. Just seems like a simple choice between the two style’s of UI for GR would have been a no-brainer for them to implement, yet thet overlooked it. Kinda makes you wonder if they asked anyone that uses feed readers to review GR before releasing it…

2. It would quickly get black-balled by shared hosting companies, like the other single user feed readers are about to be. The server load from a feed reader is shocking.

I can definitely atest to that. I wrote a nifty little script that collected feeds, and then took its ‘best stab’ at what subjects were being talked about the most in the land of RSS then it redesigned its homepage somewhat like a newspaper, showing the most popular topics and articles related to them. I even made a spider that went out looking for feeds. Even without the spider, just crawling several hundred feeds could spike the load on my server. I can only imagine what you’re experiencing having to scan thousands of feeds.

Matt – take a look at the screenshots, that should answer your questions about reading capabilities.

Yeah, I had, guess I was mainly just throwing it out there to reiterate the whole idea that I don’t like all feeds as one.

@matt,
All you need to do in GR is click the subscriptions link at the top and you can browse feed by feed or tag by tag. 1 extra click is not “impossible” or “more difficult” if you ask me.

That’s a bummer because i would love to have it on my own box.

You could always sell it to Google. the best of both worlds. Just don’t undersell it or sell it to MS. ;-D

Dan – search feeds are a great way to see what people are saying about you and your projects.

Very little of the server load is the UI, it’s just an unbelievable amount of data per user.

There are two big problems with packaging FeedLounge for sale as an individual user application:

1. Most people don’t have sufficient server access or the required server components to install it.

2. It would quickly get black-balled by shared hosting companies, like the other single user feed readers are about to be. The server load from a feed reader is shocking.

As an alpha user I love feedlounge, even with the slow temperament of the system I can’t stop using it. The UI is just so wonderful. And that UI, I could imagine creates the some if not a lot of the load on the server.

And my worst fears, like you said about bloglines; is feedlounge going to get better or worse? I trust that you will try to work your magic but I wonder if that would be good enough when the beta rolls out and every “digger” hears the news of how great feedlounge is.

You said that you are considering a single-user app, something I would strongly advocate for two reasons. One, you would get direct revenue. Something you currently seem to have issues with because you can’t find an ad system (or did you?). Two, while giving a singe-user system with or without some keys feedlounge features, like the social aspect, you would capture those “advanced” users. Those advanced users have a lot of feeds and they want it fast, me included.

I really think that selling feedlounge as an app would sell wonderfully and would take some of that load off the “social” feedlounge. Making an even greater experience to pull in that 95% of the internet that doesn’t use an RSS agreigator.

Some feeds I don’t read until I get home, others I read on my lunch break and stuff. Google’s reader basically makes this impossible (ok, so not impossible, but more difficult).

Looking forward to feedlounge hitting open beta or an invite to happen my way, heh, but no matter how I get an account, I’m going to be sure to look into feedlounge, if for no other reason then how much time you’ve put into it.