I only have two minor complaints right now: there’s no way to hide the sidebar/middle panel in landscape mode, so the web view for a Hot Link is too small for most websites (the app uses panels in portrait mode) second, the sites that are linking to a Hot Link should be listed in the app ( Sunstroke gets this right for Fever). With just one app, I can catch up on the different kind of RSS feeds I want to receive every day. It is a natural evolution of what Slow Feeds already did now the app comes with four different browsing options: Slow Feeds, High Volume, Hot Links, and Starred. Just like Fever, only for Google Reader (and with less features: there are no “kindlings” or “sparks”). Hot Links doesn’t look at “slow” or “high volume” blogs, it simply collects links that are the most discussed and “linked-to” in your account. The developer is extremely clear about his main source of inspiration for the new Hot Links section: Shaun Inman’s Fever.
Slow Feeds’ core concept is so clever, and so naturally implemented, I am now wondering why, in retrospective, others didn’t come up with it first. Slow Feeds won’t replace your daily RSS app (it doesn’t want to), yet at the same time, I believe it really has a chance of becoming an app many will use alongside their RSS client on a daily basis.
For those who don’t know Slow Feeds, it’s a neat concept: the app analyzes your Google Reader account, and puts “slow feeds” – articles from blogs that don’t post 20 articles per day – in a separate section.
I have been testing Slow Feeds 2.0, a major update to Slow Feeds released today that adds new features and an iPad version.