rbrewer123: Please apply the following patch (see above for procedure) to your SVN checkout of gPodder and retry on your N810 to see if this fixes the problem (this disables handling of hardware key presses, which might be a problem):

http://khan.thpinfo.com/~thp/tmp/gpo...ble_keys.patch



adammelancon and drdruish: We can surely increase the speed of the whole app, but it won't be tomorrow and won't be in one week, but we're slowly (hehe..) getting there. The reasons for it being so slow at times is that code has been added for some years that make even the most cruelsome, ugly RSS feed (missing or wrong information, etc..) and it takes time to let one RSS feed go through that whole chain of checks.

Another reason is that there are some GUI updates done that aren't really necessary, and this just needs optimization. It's not that the code is bad, it just needs someone to sit down for a week or two and optimize the important code paths step by step. There is a bug filed already to which you might want to add information: http://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59.

I experience the slowness of the feed cache updates myself, and I'll have to have a look at it if I might be able to speed it up a little in cases where the feed itself hasn't changed.