Podcast episodes and other feed enclosures could be downloaded automatically, based on your settings, or manually — right-click an item and choose to download it directly.
Pending downloads had their own dedicated view: View → Download Manager showed every podcast or enclosure currently downloading or queued, all in one place, rather than making you check individual feed items one at a time to see progress.
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.
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….
Where things stood For a long stretch, Torsten hadn’t had the time or the energy to keep working on new features or bug fixes for RSS Bandit. Health issues during that period limited his involvement to keeping the site running and staying loosely connected to the codebase, rather than active development. What changed his mind…