I like feedbin. Pay for it. I read that Thunderbird is a RSS feeder as well. Easy and free download. Not setting it up for email – of course. But the RSS part is intuitive enough. I can export my feedbin feed collection as a file called:
subscriptions.xml
Before I spent money the service I made sure that I would be able to export what I had put into it. Services exist, and then they don’t. Good not to rely on it. Out of the box Thunderbird did not want to import the xml file. Simply changing the extension to .opml did fix this hick up. Now I see 272 of my 600+ streams. I have no information why that difference exists. I don’t really care either. Having an XML file gives me the opportunity to drill into things if I would want to. Right now I don’t. I will poke at this for a little bit, but overall do not see a reason why I should switch away from feedbin. Also since it allows me to subscribe to newsletters and show them in the same screen. A smart move by feedbin: I get something easily. Worth the annual payments not having to manage this part myself. Not sure if those subsrciptions get exported as well. One has to learn with to live with loss eventually.