Sage Is Dead. Long Live Sage
Over a year ago I scrapped the very annoying Awasu feed reader and went with Sage. Today Sage died. So, asks the tech support guy in my mind, have you changed anything?
Well, yes, just a bit. I upgraded Firefox to 2.0.0.1. I was then advised to upgrade Sage, which I did. I then installed the del.icio.us plug-in. Now Sage shows nothing but blank windows. All the feeds I’ve ever subscribed to are gone. I know that the bookmarks for the feeds still exist, because when I uninstall delicious, they reappear under my Firefox Bookmarks menu. So I can get at them using Firefox, but only if I leave delicious uninstalled, which I’m not sure I want to do.
I’ve written an email to the Sage user list. We’ll see if I get any help.
Meantime, I am so desperate for a feed reader that I downloaded Awasu again and tried it out. It took me 40 minutes to lose patience with it and uninstall it. When it needs to open a new window to read a page, it opens IE by default, and I hope never to have to use IE again. It can be set to use “Mozilla,” and I don’t even know if this is supposed to mean Firefox, because when it’s set that way (and the required Mozilla ActiveX control in installed), no new windows are ever opened. Nothing happens at all.
I’ll be trying Google Reader, but already I see a problem with it: there’s no OPML export function, so that any list of feeds I build for it can go nowhere else. I’ll give it an hour, perhaps, to see if it has any features so wonderful that I’m willing to overlook this grave defect. My hopes are not high.