I have just upgraded and all my feeds have disappeared, I just started adding them manually. It seems to take a long time to get feeds eg http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_liveline.xml took 4minutes 32secs The older Gpodder worked faster for me. Thankyou for a great programme

I'm unsure about this app. On the bright side, it has a lot of features and can be customized to be exactly what you want and need. It can be your perfect podcast client. You can tell that a lot of effort and thought has been put into it.
The downside is that some UI decisions are just really frustrating... It might well be that they are configurable, too, and it's only me who hasn't yet found the options - but I guess not. Basically it's the kinetic scolling in lists. Lists in this application can be long, and it's extremely tiresome to do this finger-flicking thing over and over and over again. One single movement of a scrollbar would have gotten you there much quicker. Ever worse, there's a list of checkboxes for various settings somewhere. This also moved by kinetic scrolling... which means that you're bound to unintentionally change settings you didn't even know existed only because you touched the list for scrolling and, by doing so, checked/unchecked a setting.
So it's kind of 5 starts for overall design and features minus 2 stars because of the kinetic scolling, especially combined with the checkboxes.