Thunderbird's RSS handling is appalling

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thunderbird's rss handling is appalling, absolutely atrocious

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Thomas, Official Rep, replied on May 23, 2008 08:21

Have you tried out Thunderbird 3 yet? And how exactly do you think it's bad and could be improved?

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phocks replied on May 24, 2008 02:44

hey, cool of you to pick this up from twitter :)

i'll have to try thunderbird 3. i'll try it now.

i was just getting frustrated because i imported all my google reader feeds and it seemed to import them all in separate folders and then i couldn't delete them by pushing the delete button and was having to delete them individually by right-click+delete, plus there wasn't a way to view all new items on a scrolling page like google reader. maybe i just need to get used to it. i was just frustrated. i don't think i'll be using it anyway for rss.

i like it as an email client.

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Thomas, Official Rep, replied on May 24, 2008 02:56

I use google reader myself, and I think that (like with gmail) it's hard to replicate it.

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Todd Jones replied on July 01, 2008 22:52

I'm having a real problem with thunder bird(2 and 3) and rss. But it seems to only be a problem on one of my feeds. It constantly pulls duplicates from the feed. sometimes 3-4 of each news article

http://henrik.nyh.se/scrapers/cyanide... is the feed
I didn't notice it until i upgraded to 3 alpha (may or may not be linked, i wasn't really paying attention) so i downgraded back to the current stable release to find out i'm still having the same problem I have 5 other feeds that this is not happening to. Is it the feed?

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Thomas, (Official Rep), commented on July 02, 2008 05:09

It's probably the feed, the reddit RSS feed constantly gives me duplicates in Google Reader. It's because something changed, maybe he's not using persistent IDs for the items in the feed. I can suggest the image free http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm, but you probably want the images. I'm not familiar enough with Yahoo! Pipes to help write a pipe that turns it into an image-feed, sorry :(