Having been looking for a good web-based feed aggregator, I decided to give Google Reader a try. Importing my feeds from akregator was done successfully and I was able to fully utilise the reader almost immediately. All in all, I found it extremely suitable to what I need, and therefore decided to stick with it. The only (minor) problems with it that I encountered so far are:

• The page doesn't render too well in Konqueror from some reason. I have to use Firefox for this.
• Once the number of unread messages exceed 100, it only displays "100+" unread messages and not the exact number. Since I'd like to know exactly how many unread messages I have left to read, I find this mis-feature sub-optimal. But I can live with it.
• Google Reader seems to use tags instead of nested categories. So if in akregator, a feed appeared in the Perl sub-category inside the Blogs category, it will appear under both the Perl and Blogs top-level categories in Google Reader. This seems much less useful than having nested categories.

But like I said, I found what I'm looking for, and am going to stop now. So I'm happily using Google Reader to stay keep up with my feeds.

Lately I've been looking for a web-based RSS/Atom reader. This is because I've started working and want to catch up on my feeds from work as well as from home. The first such service I tried (yesterday) is Bloglines. Registration was straightforward. However, I then noticed several problems with it:

1. It only has top-level categories to categorise the feeds, not sub-categories (and sub-sub-categories, etc.) like Akregator (the feed reader for KDE which I'm using at home) has.
2. Possibly as a result of it, or due to a different bug, it failed to properly import the OPML file that akregator exported.
3. Bloglines displays many recent messages (200 or so) from the archive of messages of the feed that it keeps in one huge page, that takes a lot of time to load, and overloads the memory.
4. Some functions failed to work in Konqueror 3.5.x and I had to switch to Firefox.

In short, I didn't find it good enough for me to use. I think I'll try Google Reader next and then maybe try to install Gregarius and see if I like it. (even though I'd prefer a hosted solution).