--- title: "Waiting for the Next RSS Bandit" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/28/waiting-for-the-next-rss-bandit.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/28/waiting-for-the-next-rss-bandit.html" published: "2003-10-28T09:29:00" updated: "2003-10-28T09:29:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Dare Says that all the features people want from SharpReader are already present in RSS Bandit . I agree. RSS Bandit , feature wise, is a much richer application. It's pretty weird to say this, but I really want to use…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Waiting for the Next RSS Bandit By Roy Osherove October 28, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published October 28, 2003; technical details may be outdated. [Dare Says](http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=c7140c45-0f71-43c1-8d76-873b0aa49c95) that all the features people want from [SharpReader](http://www.sharpreader.net/) are already present in [RSS Bandit](http://www.rssbandit.org/). I agree. RSS [Bandit](http://www.rssbandit.org/), feature wise, is a much richer application. It's pretty weird to say this, but I really **want** to use RSS Bandit, but I just can't. Every time I try to use it, and import my 250-300 feed opml into it, it starts choking and the GUI hangs. Now, this was understood in the last version, which was not multi threaded, but Dare took time and listened to my comments, and actually made multi threading a new feature for this version of RB. I can only say that , yeah, it works, but the GUI still hangs and is very very slow when trying to update all those feeds. I keep going back to SharpReader, not because I think its better, or has more features, but because it **just works** and I can actually use it without waiting for my main window to repaint itself every time I refresh my feeds. Sorry Dare. I really **want** to use a feature as cool as seeing the comments for a post inside the aggregator tree (and being able to post a comment from the client too, how cool is that??), but I just can't stand by as my client wrecks every piece of human dignity I have left, trying to shout at my computer “Move you lazy beast!”. I have a dream, where RSS Bandit is as responsive as SharpReader when updating its feeds. Once that dream is a reality, I can safely say that RSS bandit will be my aggregator of choice. It \*is\* very cool. ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Oct 31, 2003 ### [Nice Blog.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/31/nice-blog.html) - Oct 31, 2003 ### [A dream come true.. almost](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/31/a-dream-come-true-almost.html) - Oct 27, 2003 ### [Regulator Coming along nicely](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/regulator-coming-along-nicely.html) - Oct 27, 2003 ### [Got Proxy? Help me test The Regulator](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/got-proxy-help-me-test-the-regulator.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/