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[arethinn]

Anyone have suggestions for an RSS reading service or application other than Google Reader or Thunderbird? I've been using Reader for a long time and been very satisfied, but their new design doesn't play nice with the size I like to keep my font set to; a workaround that is OK for text feeds doesn't work with feeds where the content is images, and it's a pain in the butt to have to keep switching zoom levels and toggling my font size and blah. Thunderbird, on the other hand, won't display the contents of all feeds in a folder as a mixed stream (as Google will), which is a no-go with the number of feeds that I subscribe to (I group them by topic); when I sort them in folders it does not display the total unread in the folder and children; and I don't like how it actually ends up displaying each item's content ("summary" seems to give me plain text which is useless for webcomic feeds and the like; "as webpage/default" look like I just went to the page in my browser, so lots of extra mess and some HTML getting displayed raw for some reason). Basically I want something "Reader-like" which will not break when I crank up the font size.

There is http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58577 apparently but ... that takes Greasemonkey, right? I hate installing entire extensions just to deal with ONE problem site. (although I had been doing just that with the Adblock Element Hiding Helper for ages until Google finally coded it such that you could collapse the sidebar on iGoogle.)

edit: for the moment the latter is just what I've done. I am thinking of trying a couple of the underdogs in Lifehacker's recent poll on top five RSS readers (Reader itself is the big gorilla, of course) but I don't have the patience at the moment.

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[windtree.livejournal.com]

Which OS are you using? I use akgregator on linux, which seems to do most of what you're asking for.

[arethinn]

Linux is out of the question, sorry.

For the moment I've bowed and installed Greasemonkey and tweaked the script's settings some. It's not perfect, but it does the major thing which was the problem here: hides the logo/search bar, which contains a button/menu for all/read/starred/recommended and individual tags/folders. There's other ways to get at those functions, and either its font size or its down arrow or I dunno what was the culprit that was breaking the layout so it looked like this:

[windtree.livejournal.com]

Yuck, that is rather mangled.

There doesn't seem to be a Windows build for akgregator (as there is for many apps). :-(