kasia in a nutshell

I use amphetadesk as my newsreader, now before I get a gaggle of good advice on why I should use something like, say, netnewswire, let me remind you, I do not have a mac. Thank you. Back on topic. I use amphetadesk, it's a decent newsreader.. it serves its purpose relatively well but has one major annoyance.

All newschannels display in one page. One big page. One giant, humongous, long, memory-hogging, netscape-crashing, long-time-loading page that is hard to navigate.

There are several gripes here, and really only one for the newsreader: I wish it would allow breaking into pages.. I quickly glanced through their README file and it doesn't appear to.

The other gripe is about some weblogs.

This is probably akin to starting a religious war (see vi vs emacs), but I'll do it anyway. I wish the weblogs that are seemingly completely published by their RSS feed (as in the feed contains the entire entries not just an excerpt) weren't or at least gave a secod feed that was just headlines (kind of like mine, default MT feed.).

I find myself scrolling through several hundred lines of text that I've already read or chose not to read each time I look through headlines in my newsreader. I don't want to do that!

I like reading weblogs from where they live (their original websites) not from my newsreader.. I only use that to see if a site has been updated and if the new headline grabs me. That's all. Nothing more.

I realize some like this behaviour.. so how about an alternative feed for minimalists like me?

Third gripe (like I mentioned above, there are several gripes) is weblogs that use images. (No John for once this isn't about yours =) ). Images also display in my newsreader. Now envision subscribing to 4 or 5 newsfeeds that are full of text (entire entries) and full of images... what do you get?

One long, giant, humongous, slow loading, memory-hogging, netscape crashing page that is hard to navigate.