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8 years ago Hi @JLChamberlain,
I'm sorry but RSSOwl is pretty much unmaintained, see issue #8. Benjamin Pasero defacto was the only one who wrote RSSOwl and he hasn't contributed code in almost 3 years. If you want to contribute, feel free to do so, you might want to fork this project and maybe Benjamin will let you take over all of it. Unless somebody steps up to contribute, don't expect anything to happen, sorry.
Let me start of by saying that I love RSSOwl and I use it every day and it makes keeping track of lots of different things super easy but I still believe that RSSOwl could be improved even more!. I believe RSSOwl could be improved by trying to implement the following changes/ improvements:
(1.) Filters without Bins The filter option can be extremely helpful with pages with lots of content but I find that having the filtered content moved into a bin kind of defeats the purpose of the filter since the original feed is stilling loading everything from the page. I think it would be more useful to have the filter in the actual feed and it would only show new stuff that matches the filter instead of loading everything from the original feed and then moving the filter matches to a bin. Example: http://imgur.com/qQQMahl
(2.) Feed List Customizability What I mean is that the user would be able to customize things like RSS Icons, Folder Icons, Folder Text & Feed Text. I believe this would be a useful improvement because it would allow the user to organize the feeds better and clearer by being able to have individual coloured folders to separate specific items. Example: http://imgur.com/oeG8snd
(3.) Feed Compatibility Update I was also hoping for an update so that RSSOwl could support more RSS Feeds since I do frequently run into issues where RSSOwl says it failed to load the feed title or saying “The Last attempt to load this feed failed. Reason: Received fatal alert: internal_error” yet there is nothing wrong with the feed and loads perfectly for the browser and other RSS software. Some examples that I have that RSSOwl won’t work with: Example 01: https://www.reddit.com/r/megalinks/.rss Example 02: https://rarbg.to/rss.php Example 03: https://jaiminisbox.com/reader/feeds/rss Example 04: https://www.sallysubs.com/feed/ Example 05: https://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak
(4.) RSS Feed Automatic Back Up As far as I know if you want to back up your feed you would have to do it manually by exporting it but say you haven’t backed it up and something happens to the software or the actually machine it would have been useful for the software to automatically back it up every week or month to a specific folder to prevent the loss of the feed.