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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 disposition2 »

platz wrote: post #126
disposition2 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, very curious how much of that actually gets even glanced over. I thought I was information overload with ~150 sites. I hope OP uses the 'focus' features so they can get a modicum of information from those 2350 feeds.

But is your intention really to read every post by every site you're subscribed to? Someone subscribed to over 1000 sites isn't trying to avoid missed posts - they're just dipping into the stream of sites they're interested in at any given moment.

Read every post, no. But at least get a general idea of the posts for the sites I subscribe to. There are a couple of sites that I let over lapse, HN is a good example, but for the most part, I atleast read the headlines / tags of posts for sites.

One nice feature of newsblur, which I don't use often and not sure if it is available in other readers, but the intelligence trainer would probably help in instances where you have a lot of sites and don't necessarily bother reviewing all posts.

Maybe I just use RSS readers differently. But if I were just going to periodically review what a site has, I would probably go to the site periodically rather than clutter up my list of feeds.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by yoha »

jasonkostempski wrote: post #115

RSS really simplifies reading news. Having multiple sources in a single place and compact lists are obvious benefits, but even if you only subscribe to 1 site, you'd save a ton of time simply by not having to rescan over stuff you've already read or decided not to read. Over the past month I've logged out of and stopped going directly to media sites and replaced them with RSS feeds. That's including YouTube, which wa…

From my experience, a self-hosted web aggregator is the most convenient option. I initially wrote my own (very clunky) in PHP when I realized Thunderbird would not do.

I am currently using FreshRSS [1]. MiniFlux [2] and TinyTinyRSS [3] are pretty good to.

[1] FreshRSS http://freshrss.org/

[2] MiniFlux https://miniflux.net/

[3] TinyTinyRSS https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by thescriptkiddie »

sean_the_geek wrote: post #56

Talking about RSS reader, I was becoming (almost!) fan of digg reader until they updated their iPad app and then links to sites won't open! How crazy is that! Uninstalled immediately, deleted digg account and I am a happy feedly user since then. No regrets so far.

You can delete your digg account? I've been trying to do that for ages and still can't figure out how.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by avian »

thomasahle wrote: post #45
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.

Just read the features of the pro version: "1 year of post storage, up to 1000 posts per feed" I totally forgot Google Reader would store feeds forever, so you could search back in time. That was actually an amazing feature.

"1 year/1000 posts" refers only to unread posts, which makes sense to me. If you have thousands of unread posts, chances are you don't care that much about them.

I'm not sure what their policy on read posts is. I'm a premium user and a quick search shows up a (read, but not liked or shared) post from 2011. It says here that liked and shared posts are stored forever:

https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/14...

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by aheilbut »

greggman wrote: post #110
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 als…

I have never understood why RSS, in addition to being a document format, doesn't include a specification for a really simple API that supports requesting the full archives for a feed. Every feed could be responsible for providing its own canonical archive. It would be a trivial addition to the implementation of blogging software, and would be immensely useful.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by siegecraft »

adrianN wrote: post #49
dsr_ wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you google "twitter rss" you will discover four sites that will do that for you as a free service and a node program that will do the conversion for you as well... on the first page of results, anyway. I switched from Reader to TT-RSS. Now there's no fear that anyone will start analyzing my subscription list, send me personalized ads or suddenly stop serving me.

I think there is a qualitative difference between a company officially supporting an open standard, vs the availability of third party tools that translate from whatever the company chooses to produce to the open standard.

I would go one step further and say that, especially for twitter, I prefer the 3rd party methods. If you depend on twitter to provide the RSS feed then when they withdraw it you're screwed. But if you're already using a non-TOS-compliant workaround, twitter has to go out of their way to break it and when they do people who care enough will find another way to get the content they want. Information wants to be free.

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Post by acqq »

sp332 wrote: post #134
acqq wrote: post #6

Why lamenting about one specific product, even demanding from the specific company to make exactly the same again? One company isn't the "internet." The comments here (by janvdberg and xaduha) show there are alternatives.

They had the only copy of a ton of defunct blogs and they just deleted them. That's not replaceable.

OK, bad, but that content isn't coming back even if the product would be reintroduced?

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by sp332 »

acqq wrote: post #148
sp332 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had the only copy of a ton of defunct blogs and they just deleted them. That's not replaceable.

OK, bad, but that content isn't coming back even if the product would be reintroduced?

Well I'm still hoping they just made it inaccessible and they still have a copy around.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by AjithAntony »

branchless wrote: post #135
mwexler wrote: post #87

I too miss Google Reader. Feedly does OK, but is expensive. Of all I tried, however, it consistently was the least worst. Most of the replacements suffer from bad apps on at least one mobile platform I use, poor web experience, lack of speed (esp. search), and even lack of features (esp. search)... ...and all suffer from lack of leveraging modern text analytics. If I have overlapping stories in my feed, perhaps a win…

Why are you paying for feedly? If it's altruism, great, but what else?

I paid becuase I want it to succeed. I was skeptical at first, but i really like it.

As to pro features that I may be enjoying: - faster feed polling - IFTTT action to save links to pinboard when i save in feedly - search

Edit: I bought the lifetime membership when they started. Just looked at today's pricing. I would not pay $7/mo

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