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PulpFiction has received a largely positive response. I'm always amused by this type of thing because, well, the darn thing ain't out yet! However, not all responses are positive. Let's have a look at a skeptic's thoughts…

Looks like there may be a couple of interesting features- filters, perhaps- but it'll take a bit to convince me to shift…

We're entering a market with mature, popular software. We know this and believe that we're ready for it.

I'm unconvinced that lifting your UI straight from Apple's Mail is a great idea, but then I think that it's a fairly crap email application anyway, which seems to be a fairly minority viewpoint.

We're not unconvinced. Though I appreciate the power of Entourage or other email applications, the vast majority of Mac OS X users use either AOL (ugh) or Mail. AOL is certainly nothing after which to model yourself, so Mail got the nod. "Intuitive" is a funny game: different people find different things intuitive. There are a variety of feed aggregators out there, and about four different models. We wanted to take a fresh approach based on the idea that feeds are almost like being subscribed to a mailing list.

…includes syncing, which PulpFiction (why the intercap? What's wrong with spaces?) doesn't seem to do. (Admittedly it's a bit unfair comparing one unreleased product with a possible future product. Ho hum.)

If you copy your database from one computer to the other, you've got all of the synchronization you need. Preferences are stored in a different folder, so one machine can check every 30 minutes, and another every few hours if you'd like, each with unique stylesheets (etc.).

Why the InterCap? Because searches on Google for "Pulp Fiction" would be far more likely to return results for a movie than for our software. Search Google for "PulpFiction" and you'll see we've already jumped up in the listings.

One of the commenters (Raena) says 'if it can import an OPML file, it can import stuff from [other aggregators].' Pet rant, here, but OPML is fucking shite. It seems that, despite the fact it's an outlining (hence heirarchical) format…

PulpFiction doesn't organize by feeds: it organizes by content. If you want to filter everything from my blog, for example, into a "Friends" or "Mac Folk" or "Morons" folder, you're more than welcome to. However, if you want to filter all of the posts on my blog in the "Software Development" category to one folder, everything in the "Computing: Mac" category to another, and everything else into an "Off-Topic" folder, you're more than welcome to. Stuff with "QotD" in the title you may wish to go straight to the trash - I don't know.

This leap requires a bit of creativity or imagination, but we think it's one many people will make.

If PulpFiction can't offer a seamless import from other apps, I'm not minded to switch.

It works beautifully. But then again, it should. That's one of our goals.

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