It's just not threaded properly. It can't be.

I noticed long ago that it uses worker threads to update feeds, and often when a feed fails to update, that worker thread (most likely a pool thread) becomes a zombie. Over time, this further degrades performance until the pool just runs out of available threads (not to mention the memory consumption is just insane by then). The only remedy is to shut down the program completely and restart it... giving you a day or two before having to kill it again.

And now this - I have noticed what can only be described as "anomalies" in my downloaded feeds before... things like seeing comments attached to the wrong posts, and so on. I always assumed this was just due to bugs in the RSS feed producer I was subscribed to. But today, on a pair of blogs, both had a post with a title of "{...}". Each had a jumble of intermixed text from recent posts in the other blog. In order to get the feeds sorted out properly, I had to delete them from my opml, restart RSS Bandit, and add them back. And of course, there are no posts on either blog titled "{...}".

I suppose the corrupted posts could be due to buggy local storage code, but it sure looks a whole lot like the updater threads are just poorly monitored and synchronized.

I guess it's time to try NewsGator. I am not thrilled about packing my RSS feeds into Outlook, but guess I will get used to it.

At least they have a free trial period though. I hate paying for something and tossing it out shortly after.