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Now for an update on my switch to GreatNews.
First of all, I simply love it. GreatNews is by far the best feed reader I have tried. It’s responsive yet easy on resources, and minimalist yet versatile and elegant. Nonetheless, I have some remarks.
While I greatly appreciate that GreatNews uses SQLite, and that it stores favicons—which is non-standard, but it sure livens up the UI—, I can’t say I like the way it stores everything in the program directory. Come on, guys, Windows has been multi-user for quite some time now. Use the user’s application data folder.
Elegant as the UI may be, it could use a little more customizability. Sure, the toolbars can be dragged, but I’d like to be able to hide the Search toolbar, or maybe dock it on the far right. And once I’m done with that, I’d like to lock the toolbars altogether. Also, there’s no way to customize the toolbar buttons.
And, finally, some minor shortcomings: the inability to remap hotkeys; the way the author seems to like to pad brackets with spaces—easily fixed by editing Lang\gn_eng.ini though!—; the retro About dialog, which doesn’s quite have the added spiffiness of other UI elements.
Okay, so I tend to focus on the negative. It’s still a great product, and it’s free. Try it out already.