RSS Menu

Edit #2 - The 3.1 update restroed the ability to run in the background, and also to disable the Collection folders, which are totally redundant for my uses. The app is again as useful as before. Might not be perfect, but it is the best I've found for how I want to access my feeds. Kudos to the developer for bringing back the prior behavior so quickly! Edit - Will revisit this review after the application update promised in the developer's response is released. Original review - I've been using RSS Menu for years, but do not like the new release, I much prefer the previous background menu. The new app does not work well for how I use my computer. I'd like to revert to version 2.7.4. I tried restoring the old app from backup, but after doing so, RSS Menu does not appear in the menu bar though it is shown to be running. So apparently the new version does something outside the app and its preference file that breaks the previous version. Tried to contact the developer, but the email form on his website never sends, and eventually just times out.

Fast response from the developer and the issue of it crashing on start up in catalina is now fixed with 3.0.1 only problem now is that the app crashes when you select "mark all read"

I've been using RSS Menu since its inception. I love the simple access in the Menu Bar without cluttering up my Dock, but with version 3.0 they are forcing it to be standard app with a Dock icon and window yuo can't get rid of. They've also included some collection folders you can't remove which just clutters up my feeds. Time to look for an alternative.

You can't increase the font size in the drop down menu that shows the rss feed stories. I want tobe able to take a quick glance, to decide what to look at . Well at least it was only a $1.99 lesson.

It somewtimes lags a little but I'm on a beta OS and other things are lagging too.

It used to be a great app, before it stopped working for me about a month ago. After double-clicking on the app, it starts up then immediately quits. Nothing more. Icon in the menu bar is visible for a microsecond and is gone.

When it’s working, this little application is good. Simple idea, implemented nicely. But it doesn’t handle at least one situation gracefully. When woken up from sleep or in some other situation where it looses its connection to the internet, the lists of “unread articles” goes nuts. As in, articles previously read are marked as unread, seemingly randomly and usually profusely. This makes it impossible to see which articles are genuinely unread from which ones are being falsely reported as unread, so you end up marking them all as unread just to clear the decks. It’s a relatively minor issue, and sporadic rather than consistent, so while annoying when it happens, it shouldn’t put you off the measley two bucks the application costs. Easily worth it.

The developer DOES NOT respond and for that reason I am writing this review. Frankly the developer gave up on Snow Leopard and it worked OK in Lion but on Mountain Lion it won't even launch. It was a waste of money but thank goodness it wasn't much. NOW it fails since it depends on GOOGLE READER which is defunct! It won’t import feeds from OPL oit is useless!

First, the field is totally ignored, in favor of loading text from the link. Second, the link does not use the tag within a page, so only the top text from a page (which may continue many separate items) is displayed. This application is completely useless. If I could ask for a refund, I would.