--- title: "Returning to RSS bandit and a couple of requests" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/returning-to-rss-bandit-and-a-couple-of-requests.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/returning-to-rss-bandit-and-a-couple-of-requests.html" published: "2004-05-22T12:15:00" updated: "2004-05-22T12:15:00" tags: ["Blogging"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I've been trying on RSS bandit for about a month now, and loving it. I still miss some of sharpreader's features (which I'll outline later) but I love the fact that I can synchronize my feed list between home and work.…" 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/" --- # Returning to RSS bandit and a couple of requests By Roy Osherove May 22, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) **Historical article** · Originally published May 22, 2004; technical details may be outdated. I've been trying on [RSS bandit](http://www.rssbandit.org/) for about a month now, and loving it. I still miss some of [sharpreader's](http://sharpreader.net/) features (which I'll outline later) but I love the fact that I can synchronize my feed list between home and work. Plus its much more responsive now. Great job Dare. some features I'd still like to see: 1. Sort feeds manually (not just by name, but manually drag a feed to where I want) 2. open all feeds tree automatically on startup. 3. Still sometimes when looking at a closed node with more that 2 level inside, I don't see all the unread items inside and have to click hte inside nodes to see them (the count is accurate though, but the post list is not) 4. I \*still\* don't like the fact that some feeds are not validated and are sent to the “errors“ folder. SOmetimes Early Adoper feeds fails. what's that about> never happened in sharpreader. 5. when uploading or downloading a feed I don't need the extra msgbox that says “done!“. I only wanna see it if it fails. for the rest I have a status bar. I want it to act just like when posting a blog reply. 6. I want a setting that will alow bandit to ask me before I close “would you like to update the synchonize feed list?“ or maybe even update it automatically ever X minutes (like auto save) 7. **A bit usability feature** for me would be that a feed and a folder would have differnet icons. Would make it much easer to traverse the feed tree. 8. When updating all feeds, I want the feeds that are still _waiting_ to start updating to have an icon that states they are still “obsolete“. ## More in Blogging [All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) - May 24, 2004 ### [\[OT\] Sad joke](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/24/ot-sad-joke.html) - May 22, 2004 ### [Recommended C# Bloggers](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/recommended-c-bloggers.html) - May 22, 2004 ### [Peli's blog - a great unit testing information center](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/pelis-blog-a-great-unit-testing-information-center.html) - May 22, 2004 ### [HOWTO: fight back the current spam scum](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/howto-fight-back-the-current-spam-scum.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/