Your Feeds Aren’t Missing

ByDennis Jones

In v1.8.0.862, we made a change to the user interface which we thought would be helpful but instead has turned out to be very confusing to our users. The change was to remove to (+) and (-) indicators that let you know whether the top level nodes of a subscription have been expanded or not. The reason we made this change was to give more room for the text describing the node. The negative consequence of this change is that if your subscription tree isn’t expanded it looks like you have no subscriptions as shown below.

rssbandit_tree_unexpanded

As you can see it says I have 175 subscriptions but I can’t see any of them. However once I double clicked on the name of the subscriptions in my tree view then tree is expanded and you can see the feed list.

rssbandit_tree_expanded

This is was a bad user interface decision on our part which has served to confuse users and we will be fixing it in our next release. We apologise for any confusion it has caused.

Dennis has spent the past six years working at the intersection of AI, software, and digital media — building with AI, writing about it, and separating what’s genuinely useful from what’s simply noise.

With a background in software and web development, digital marketing, and copywriting, he takes a hands-on approach to the work behind this site. The focus is on practical AI tools and workflows that have been tested in the real world, not recycled theory.

In 2026, Dennis took on the publication behind RSS Bandit, an open-source feed reader with more than a decade of history. Today, he is applying that same core idea to the modern information overload: helping people keep up with what matters without drowning in tabs.

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