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Google Reader had a very important social aspect as well
People keep forgetting this. Google Reader was the best social network for academically minded people that I have ever been part of. As one blogger after it's shutdown said: it was a social network for people who don't want to talk about themselves
I am maintaining an open source simple aggregator: https://github.com/JARR/JARR and using it since more than 5 years. It has evolved a lot since... It is possible to test it here: https://jarr.herokuapp.com This instance is limited in resources... It is deployable quite easily (a vagrant configuration file is also provided).
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.
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Is that... normal? 2350 feeds seems like an astronomical amount of news feeds. Can I ask how much of that do you read?
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.
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.
Thank you for posting about NewsBlur. I'd like to remind everybody that one of its most important features is that it is entirely open source http://github.com/samuelclay This means that if I were to ever invoke the bus factor you would still be able to use the same reader you use today. It negates the Google Reader problem and gives you confidence that I'm not selling your data or doing anything nefarious. Plus it m…
> I am also working on a new hardware device called the Turn Touch Mac Remote. It controls custom built apps on your Mac.
lol. good luck!
With all the complaints about page weight, tracking, and overzealous advertising, the idea that I could just pay to subscribe to an RSS feed has more appeal than ever.
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> I thought I was information overload with ~150 sites. It mainly depends of the feed volume, not how many feeds are you subscribed to. I cherry picked a lot of personal blogs that are not updated often.
That was my perception, a lot of personal blogs, thank you for clarifying. Somewhat unrelated, but it would be neat if there was some kind of lost and found for RSS as I have sites from the early 00s that I followed which are no longer updated but I imagine the author just changed their site, etc.
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Thank you for posting about NewsBlur. I'd like to remind everybody that one of its most important features is that it is entirely open source http://github.com/samuelclay This means that if I were to ever invoke the bus factor you would still be able to use the same reader you use today. It negates the Google Reader problem and gives you confidence that I'm not selling your data or doing anything nefarious. Plus it m…
> my next secret project > I am also working on a new hardware device called the Turn Touch Mac Remote. It controls custom built apps on your Mac. lol. good luck!
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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.