I think I have finally, after several years of looking, found an RSS/Atom aggregator/reader that has a user interface that doesn’t make me run screaming. And I found it in a most surprising place!
Sage, an extension for Firefox, has a pleasing layout, an intuitive interface, and is remarkably easy to install. As a test I set it up with feeds from Slashdot, Gizmodo, BoingBoing, Engadget, and Fark and it works like a charm. Very, very cool. I am a happy geek.
OPML Import
Unfortunately, it fails in the one thing I absolutely must have in an RSS aggregator. It hangs on importing my feeds from NetNewswireLite. I’ve already got a ton of feeds set up there and there’s no incentive for me to switch (even if I might want to) unless I can take all that with me. Oh well, perhaps they’ll fix that in a future release…