OPML — how hard can it be

Ok, so I’ve switched (I can’t be arsed to link that up — you know what I mean). And apart from hav­ing to install every sin­gle piece of soft­ware I need (and find­ing quite a lot of new ones — yummy) , I’m oh-so-pleased.

But I’m not just find­ing OS X ver­sions of my old favourites. I’m try­ing out some new stuff as well. And being an RSS-fanatic, I thought I’d give the dif­fer­ent aggre­ga­tors a test spin. I love Blog­lines, but still. How­ever, it’s not so damn easy. I’ve sort of been here before, though. I’ve tried out dif­fer­ent aggre­ga­tors on my PC — same thing. OPML is so sim­ple! Or at least, that’s how it should be. But every aggre­ga­tor seem to add their own lit­tle quirk — and there isn’t a stan­dard for fold­ers, groups or what­ever aggre­ga­tor x choose to call it. That sucks.

So, with my lim­ited BBe­dit skills (which no doubt is a fine lit­tle piece of soft­ware), I had to cut the Blog­lines export into chuncks cor­re­spond­ing to my dif­fer­ent groups. But:

Shrook imported with­out has­sle. It keeps crash­ing on me, though.
Net­NewsWire doesn’t under­stand the exported file.
Pulp­Fic­tion sort of under­stands it, but though being a Mail.app like appli­ca­tion, I find the inter­face a bit con­fus­ing. Too yel­low, and think­ing about my feeds in quite a dif­fer­ent way than I do…

So, I’m back with Blog­lines — at least until I find the energy to either con­vert my feeds into a NNW-readable for­mat, or Shrook (which I think is my inter­face favourite) starts run­ning stable.

This is posted with ecto btw. Pretty slick, but I’m miss­ing my Zempt-like book­marklet that allowed me to launch the app from the page I wanted to blog.

But to sum up: How hard can it be to agree on an OPML stan­dard? Bloody hell…