What is a News Aggregator?. A news aggregator is a piece of software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page. [Scripting News]
Unfortunately, you just added one of the worst things about Radio's aggregator into the definition: reverse chronological order. Not only do I find myself stupidly reading from bottom to top (because I want to follow the proper chronological order!), but I also find it impossible to read my older items (beyond what's on one page) until I've read the newer ones, because all you have is "delete" capabilities, no "next/previous page" capabilities. I can't think I'm the only one frustrated by this limitation... an option is a bare minimum requirement here, IMO (but paging is probably close behind). [The .NET Guy]
I agree. I don't think that how the new items are rendered has anything to do with the definition of a news aggregator. I'm toying around with writing my own news aggregator right now, called yaNA (yet another News Aggregator), and some of the features I intend to implement are various methods of filtering (by channel name, title, description, etc.), sorting, and paging.
[Drew's Blog]
Count me in agreement as well. You are going to write it in C# right Drew? -)
2:09:04 PM 
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