Apparently due to lag or timeout with one or more feeds, the reader will hang and the rest of the site--everything else--fails to load, so I get a big blank white page.

I had to kill this module. When will there be an update?

The worse problem is, often the site will partially load or seem to fully load, but the reader will screw up some aspects of the layout or bollix the login process.

Hello?

No matter what I set the timeout setting for (like 1 second) on the backend, this module will cripple my whole site if one of the feeds is slow or down.