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When comparing NetNewsWire vs Vienna, the Slant community recommends Vienna for most people. In the question“What are the best RSS readers for Mac OS X?” Vienna is ranked 4th while NetNewsWire is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Vienna is:
Vienna is an Open Source project. That means that every single detail of its implementation is freely available.
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Pros
Pro Let's you know when an RSS feed has gone stale
The app will inform you of dead, stale, or otherwise bad feeds.
Pro Open Source
Vienna is an Open Source project. That means that every single detail of its implementation is freely available.
Pro Great Interface
Pro Powerful keyboard navigation
There are easy to remember single keystrokes to scroll through a post, mark it a (un-) read etc.
Cons
Con Unreliable
It will sometimes skip over news items.
Con No longer functions as Apple blocks its launch for security reasons
This have been fixed.