I have never understood the value in keeping track of what feed entries I have read. I follow way too many feeds for that to be useful information.
But I also never liked the layout of most rss readers that organize each feed into a folder and lay everything out like an email client. That UX doesn't work well for me.
I am working on the OPML import. That's the highest priority currently. Might take me a week or so to add it though because I am busy for the next few days.
The feedback to the user during signup and login is totally lacking. I know it needs work.
There are a lot of improvements I am going to add to the UI to make it more user friendly.
Thanks for the feedback. I am open to all suggestions and will add features as I have time.
Glad you like it. I started working on it about four years ago. It's been online for about a year.
I am working on opml import and making it easier / more intuitive to add feeds.
I have had trouble with the signup form for the last few days which was the worst time for it to fail. I thought I had the bug fixed yesterday but I will double check.
Thanks for the feedback. It's a work in progress but I am going to keep improving it.
If you have anymore suggestions I am open to all feedback.
I built it for many of the reasons you stated. I also wanted to be able to do specific kinds of search (All craigslist telecommute Java jobs in the US -- http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=telecommute).
It still needs a lot of work but I plan to keep it relatively simple and useful.