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O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by wslh »

robocaptain wrote: post #84

I've been paying for newsblur ( http://www.newsblur.com/ ) ever since google reader bit the dust. It's pretty much a direct replacement. Interface has come a long way since day one and is sufficiently slick now (UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc) that I don't really notice it. Highly recommended by a (former) hardcore google reader user. If I recall correctly, got quite a good bit of press here on HN at the time.

Sorry, I don't agree: heavy Google Reader user and now a NewsBlur one. While I appreciate the NewsBlur existence it is very very very slow while Google Reader was extremely fast. I don't know if NewsBlur only retrieves my feeds when I start a request or if it constantly retrieves them on the backend.

Disclosure: I have 2350 feeds in NewsBlur.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by kyriakos »

V-2 wrote: post #69
kyriakos wrote: post #31

been using feedly and greader pro on android ever since

And you can share the same feeds among Feedly and gReader Pro? I'm asking, because Feedly the web app is okay, but I don't like their Android version

yeah basically greader uses Feedly as a source.

I agree about the feedly for android, i prefer the more text-y view of greader (which looks more like the old google reader).

greader also lets you view feeds in a list with the most recently updated first.

p.s. you don't need the Pro version for any of the above, the regular version is ad supported but otherwise free to use.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by fourneau »

wslh wrote: post #101
robocaptain wrote: post #84

I've been paying for newsblur ( http://www.newsblur.com/ ) ever since google reader bit the dust. It's pretty much a direct replacement. Interface has come a long way since day one and is sufficiently slick now (UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc) that I don't really notice it. Highly recommended by a (former) hardcore google reader user. If I recall correctly, got quite a good bit of press here on HN at the time.

Sorry, I don't agree: heavy Google Reader user and now a NewsBlur one. While I appreciate the NewsBlur existence it is very very very slow while Google Reader was extremely fast. I don't know if NewsBlur only retrieves my feeds when I start a request or if it constantly retrieves them on the backend. Disclosure: I have 2350 feeds in NewsBlur.

Is that... normal? 2350 feeds seems like an astronomical amount of news feeds. Can I ask how much of that do you read?

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by wslh »

wslh wrote: post #101
robocaptain wrote: post #84

I've been paying for newsblur ( http://www.newsblur.com/ ) ever since google reader bit the dust. It's pretty much a direct replacement. Interface has come a long way since day one and is sufficiently slick now (UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc) that I don't really notice it. Highly recommended by a (former) hardcore google reader user. If I recall correctly, got quite a good bit of press here on HN at the time.

Sorry, I don't agree: heavy Google Reader user and now a NewsBlur one. While I appreciate the NewsBlur existence it is very very very slow while Google Reader was extremely fast. I don't know if NewsBlur only retrieves my feeds when I start a request or if it constantly retrieves them on the backend. Disclosure: I have 2350 feeds in NewsBlur.

Downvotes to this are very suspicious since it is a fact that goes in the opposite direction of other comments in the thread.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by trextrex »

I really like the privacy features of TheOldReader.com -- especially their commitment so far to have no tracking (with cookies etc.) or user data harvesting to serve ads. They do have some select sponsored ads for the free-tier, but done without any such tracking [1].

[1] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-o...

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by trextrex »

janvdberg wrote: post #3

I've been using http://theoldreader.com ever since. As the name implies, it does a pretty good job of mimicking Google Reader.

I really like the privacy features of TheOldReader.com -- especially their commitment so far to have no tracking (with cookies etc.) or user data harvesting to serve ads. They do have some select sponsored ads for the free-tier, but done without any such tracking [1].

[1] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-o...

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by greggman »

robocaptain wrote: post #84

I've been paying for newsblur ( http://www.newsblur.com/ ) ever since google reader bit the dust. It's pretty much a direct replacement. Interface has come a long way since day one and is sufficiently slick now (UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc) that I don't really notice it. Highly recommended by a (former) hardcore google reader user. If I recall correctly, got quite a good bit of press here on HN at the time.

I'm a newsblur user but it is in no way a placement for reader. For one newsblur will only track the last 30 days of posts (or is it 30 news posts).

So for example in reader I might add site like Unity's blog. Reader would show the entire history as unread. I could then slowly go through all the old tutorials since they're all there. Newsblur I can't do that. It won't pull in stuff past a certain date/count.

That also means I can't just put some feeds on "low burn" mode where I keep them but only check them very seldom because the unread stuff will slide off of newsblur's limited post queue

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