Impressions on Straw (the aggregator)
So I just reinstalled Gentoo and finally got Straw to build. I’m impressed so far. Does an excellent job of finding feeds from URLs (RSS autodetection), clean UI, easy to get working and configure. I can think of two things I still need though… Drag’n drop subscription from the browser (drag a URL into Straw and it will try to subscribe), and visual indication of recently updated feeds. I’ve been using AmphetaDesk with AmphetaOutlines in Windows, and I like having a way to distinguish blogs with new posts. I’d like to see an option in Straw to sort the list by last-update and possibly indicated those blogs without updates in another color. I’ve also liked being able to subscribe to a site without leaving the browser (using a bookmarklet).