Not too long ago I wrote a review about Feedlounge. Kyle came back and voiced his opinion about the price of the service, which to be fair was the only downside I could actually think of for the actual application myself.

I remember feeling the same way when the Mint price package was first released. At first I thought that $30 was far too pricey for what I was getting. It only took me a couple of weeks before I caved in and bought the package and do actually really like it. It provides me with all the information I need and much more in a fashion and designed in a way that I really like as well. So for me paying $30 for a set of code that I can sit on my site doesn’t feel like a cheat. Shaun’s provided me with both a service and a product, that in some ways is tangible in this crazy virtual world. It’s the same sort of precieved value one gets from fonts. If you’ve never paid for a font then you probably don’t understand where I’m coming with this.

Anyway, I’ve decided not to go for Feedlounge. The value I am getting from that programme doesn’t really inspire me to pay for it. See had the guys gone the Shaun route and actually let me host Feedlounge on my server, with the whole login system right there, for $35 I’d have not even thought twice about buying it. Something like that makes perfect sense to me. Hell I’d have gone and paid $50 for it.

Instead I decided to look around and see what the alternatives are, what I found was a fork of another web based RSS aggregator, Feed on Feeds Redux. This little project is still in it's infancy at the moment, and I'm glad to see that it's pretty active. I'll be dropping the guys an email to give my thoughts and offer some help because this could very well be the WordPress of RSS aggregrators, if I could register with fucking Sourceforge. Honest to god I've been trying for like 1 hour now, and I've gotten nowhere.

Update: Yeah, when registering, don't untick the emails at the bottom, it doesn't like that, which is utter rubbish, why have them there in the first place???