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Feed to Post addon; There appear to be problems with feeds. It works really good when the number of feed sources was low (say around 6 or so). However, once you get into some real news aggregating, 30 or 40 or more feed sources, this software begins to struggle. It loses tracks occasionally on a feed source here or there and pops up little error icons (red triangles or yield signs) forcing you to manually retrieve posts. It doesn't like simultaneously fetching posts from multiple feeds. When you get lots and lots of feeds you will need to stagger your updates so that they all trigger a few minuets apart from each other or else risk a feed or two or more not working occasionally.

It begins to lose track of when to update (check the) feed and the update information on some of the feeds makes no sense (such as late update: never, next update: never, etc)... even though the feed is scheduled and turned on.

Full Text plugin is okay, but not great. Some feeds it performs well with, others it can't seem to pull any article text except adverts off the pages. Other feeds it still only pulls the blurbs (like one paragraph) and ignores the rest of the article altogether. One great example is if you are trying to pull the feed from infowars.com, it will only get about 50% of the articles correct. The remainder will be gibberish text from adverts.

Keywords plugin is fine, except, instead of having all the keywords on a single line inside an edit text field, can we get a text file(s)? Kind of a pain in the butt to place lots and lots of exclusion keywords into a edit text field and it really limits you. For serious keyword filtering we really need the ability of using keyword text files. I have some feeds that feed topics I don't want to capture and post, so I need a ton of exclusion keywords.... life would be so much better if I could simply edit a text file.

So, in all it is decent software. It can pull articles fairly fast from a good feed. It has trouble a lot of the time with pulling graphics (images), especially under full text. There is lots of room for improvement here. So for now I give it three stars. One star definitely missing for the feeds to post addon losing control of the cron jobs and update information.


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