I hope that the last three
teasers have shown that your feature requests are taken seriously. Every one of these big new features is the
result of feedback from FeedDemon users. But FeedDemon 1.6 isn’t all about big new features – there are a lot of smaller additions that also resulted from feedback, such as:
- Option to minimize FeedDemon to the system tray instead of closing it
- Ability to view a newspaper of all watches or news bins
- Watches now have an auto-purge option
- Option to disable resetting the feed URL on permanent redirect
- Surfer and Expando newspaper styles enable opening external links in a new browser tab
- “Channels” and “channel groups” renamed to “feeds” and “folders”
- Feed import enables re-creating OPML folder structure
- “Copy to news bin” added to favorites menu, enabling copying the current browser page to a news bin
- Support for Atom 0.8 enclosures
- FeedStation now retains a history of previously downloaded files
Now, one of the concerns I often hear when a new version is released is that the added features “bloat” it, making it more complex for new users. I’ve tried to do just the
opposite with FeedDemon 1.6 – I’ve spent a lot of time simplifying FeedDemon, so it’s cleaner and sleeker than the previous version. Oh, and did I mention
that it’s faster, too? :)