A while back I wrote a post called A Few of My Favorite Things, detailing a few products that I thought made the web a more interesting place.
I’m afraid today I’m going to have to complain about a product that has let me down. The Sage RSS reader is a Firefox plugin that allows you to subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds. It displays them (in categories if you wish) in a tool bar on the left side of your browser window. Reading through your favorite blogs is effortless.
Until it fails. About a week ago, my Sage feeds just vanished. I opened up Sage and it was empty. I tried to re-subscribe to some feeds, but it wouldn’t let me. So I uninstalled it, redownloaded, and reinstalled it. It still won’t let me subscribe to feeds. I might have written this off as some kind of fluke unique to my aging iBook, but then a week or so later the exact same thing happened on the brand new iMac that I use at work.
I’ve done a little googling looking for people with similar complaints, but no luck so far. So, any Sage fans out there wanna tell me what I’m doing wrong? Any Mozilla folks want to defend the integrity of your product? Write a comment. Meanwhile, I guess I’ll be trying to find all those blog links and either subscribe to them using the built-in “Live Bookmarks” feature of Firefox of just add them to my del.icio.us bookmarks.