I was going to wait until the full release, but I couldn’t help myself. This is an app that I use multiple times, daily, so I just had to find out what was coming. The little improvements in the UI really make this a compelling release. The newsfeeds are great and work with feeds or categories. I think that’s by far the best new feature; especially useful for link feeds or bloggers who post quick, funny posts. I usually only check them when there’s some down time, ’cause it involves so much clicking or typing. Well, not anymore! I think if I hadn’t been running the beta, I would have missed this hilarious site [via SideShow’s link blog].
Other improvements include ordering of comments by time in ascending order (they were in descending order before, so it took me a while to figure out that they had switched it). There are still a few bugs with the new column layout tools but it’s looking pretty kick ass. Hopefully they’ll pull the NNTP UI elements; I think that’ll just confuse users, given Dare’s announcement of the beta.
This thing rocks though. If you’re not an RSSBandit user yet, I encourage a look. Download it! I command you!