ONE78MAN  I really love this program, i hope that more beautiful improvement will be introduced... but it's already a good program and an original/new way to use rss :)  
(Version 1.0.5)

GOODWILL :)  I agree with the below comments: this program hangs a lot when initial feed gathering take place. Also, it does NOT work with the Spaces feature in OS X 10.5.  
(Version 1.0.4)

GCOGHILL  I cannot get Times to work properly on the MacBook. Hangs when initial feed gathering takes place, and after relaunch I see feeds in the main bar, but cannot drag to a page. Works fine on the MacPro.  
(Version 1.0.4)

GCOGHILL  A few thoughts, all of which have been submitted to the dev via Times' feedback form:

- more keyboard shortcuts/navigation is needed.

- a way to mark articles as read/unread is needed. Articles should be auto-marked as read once one reads it.

- pages & individual feeds need a count indicator for unread/total feeds, both in the Pages bar and per-feed. This assumes the dev will implement marking stories as read at some point.

Interesting app, and I am willing to give it a chance as my 'light' newsreader. I use NetNewsWire for the heavy lifting. Unfortunately though I think my demo will expire as this app matures through the 1.x stage, and I may not get to test any added features like the ones mentioned above.

For such a brand-new app, perhaps an expiring beta might have been a better route? Seems this app will have some growth spurts in the coming weeks.

With all the free newsreaders out there now, I would want to put this through the paces before plunking down cash for it.

Looks great, but whether it will stand the test of time as far as readability/convenience, remains to be tested.  
(Version 1.0.4)

ROBERT KUILMAN  I love it! I have never been a fan of RSS but I've been testing this app longer than any RSS reader out there. (I've been using this one for a day now, as opposed to minutes)

Posters below claim that it's buggy, and i concur, but I'm more than confident the developer will get those nasty bugs out there. Also do they claim that the way of using it is somewhat unnatural, but if you use it for a while you'll get the hang of how this app works and reckon it to be very consistent in it's behavior.

I might just start using my browser for things other than just refreshing news sites :)  
(Version 1.0.2)

FRANCOLA  I love the concept, but it is like reading a newspaper that someone keeps stealing the pages from before you can read them. Articles are constantly replaced before you can even get to them (should stay until you decide to remove them like every other practical newsreader) and there is no way to tell consistently what is new and what has been read. Nor can you choose to mark an article read or unread. Occasionally (almost randomly) you will see a blue indicator next to a few articles, but never with complete accuracy. These are features essential to a "newsreader". Nice idea, but unusable for me at this point.  
(Version 1.0.2)

FONNESBECK  This app is totally unstable. No less than 5 crashes in about 10 minutes of use. Save your $30.  
(Version 1.0)

SEMIOTICMONKEY  Let me divide three kind of arguments.

a) workflow

I have to quote FRIDGE here and, indeed, this application has serious usability problems, Seems as it was designed by someone not used to the RSS world and use.

A GUI is not eyecandy only but an effective and down to the task at hand design. Good icons, beautiful details are welcome, we are all on a Mac after all, but all these must adhere to a logical process as it can predicted by simulations of everyday use of the average users. This is the center of users centric design.

This applications lacks all of these above.

You can't see, immediately see, which news are new. The simple red pillow is something good on a page with 3/4 elements but it pass by unnoticed in a page full of articles. A bold headline, as newspaper, could be a better sign.

You have to read the news before the refresh cause there is no way to keep them in a unread status between session.

The refresh and mark as read task is a All or None matter. You can't refresh or mark as read a single page or article. All or Nothing. Stupid (sorry but it is true).

Read the review below for further strange behaviors.

Maybe the next updates will change something of these but right now you have to deal with it in a current state and pay in the hope of changes.

b) optimization

It consumes after a fresh start 60MB RAM. After an hour of activity, it pumps up at 140MB RAM. This is simply unaccetable (NetNewsWire eats 23MB RAM). C'mon it consume more RAM than Photoshop with a full website mockup loaded!

c) price

Oh well! It is the price the Dev choosed so stop complaying. In my opinon it not worth of the price requested BUT, at a lower price AND in this state, i still will not consider buy it, so...

ps. Don't try to Trim The Fat (or Xslimmer it) from this application. It will crash on startup indefinitely.

psII. Stability wise, on my Machine it worked fast and well (MacBook last gen with 4GB RAM and Leo 10.5.2).  
(Version 1.0)

FRIDGE  Positives first, it is kind of nice to look at a newspaper layout of your RSS feeds... But the positives ends there. If you are having more then 30 feeds you will go absolutely crazy in a day or two trying to keep up with your RSS feeds. As an example, there is now way to see which are the latest feeds! If the app refreshes every 10 min, the previous "new" feeds gets unmarked. So leaving the app running for an hour going to lunch (having Times set to check for new feeds every 10 min) you come back and have no clue which are the unread feeds (obviously there is now way to tell how many unread feeds you have either). Organizing your feeds is nightmarish. Let say you import 100 feeds (I did 42). The feeds gets placed in a feed drawer, from there you drag and drop your feeds into "pages" you have created (pages being like Times equal to Folders with the difference that you have to put a feed on a page in order to read the feed). So you drag and drop your feeds onto the pages and very quickly you have no clue which feeds you already placed and which other you have not. So you scroll down, look at the other pages, take out pen and paper to keep notes on what you are doing... This is a joke! It will drive less patient people with loads of feeds up the walls in a matter of minutes. It costs 30 bucks and is beta software. Crashes and buggs, beware!!! This is just eye candy without function. The whole point of RSS is to digest information in an easy manner, Times makes it harder then any other RSS reader. This is form before function – bad design! Do not get seduced by the eye candy, take the candy away and you have buggy beta software that does not focus on the applications main objective – reading and organizing your RSS feeds!  
(Version 1.0)

PANKISEN  Times developer seem to have paid more attention to the license nagging than the announced functionality.

I've no objection to the asked price. Time and the sales volume will tell if it's right or not. If the developer want to sell his product, he will no doubt adjust the price to fit the market. But, as of now, there is no way I'll buy a license.

I'm sure the developer is competent and all that but,

the application could have benefit from some more work and testing before the obviously premature release.  
(Version 1.0)