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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 conesus »

disposition2 wrote: post #157
wslh wrote: post #154

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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be neat if there was some kind of lost and found for RSS as I have sites from the early 00s that I followed which are no longer updated but I imagine the author just changed their site, etc.

NewsBlur has an organizer that provides this exact info. Just sort of last update (or even stories per month) and mass delete. It's somewhat new but it makes a world of a difference. The organizer is on web and just launched on iOS. See http://blog.newsblur.com.

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Post by abtinf »

conesus wrote: post #119
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.

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 had no idea newsblur is open source! I can't believe you don't mention it at all on the newsblur.com landing page!

I've been getting fed up with feedly missing critical features. Knowing that newsblur is a service that I could potentially improve is enough to go through the pain of migrating my feeds to do a solid evaluation.

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Post by Semiapies »

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've been using Feedbin very happily, myself. Contra a lot of people here, I almost never can't find a feed when I want one.

Reader's neglect and eventual shutdown were annoying, but hardly heartbreaking. I miss the massive search history, but that's all.

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Post by miles »

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've found FeedHQ[1] paired with Reeder[2] to be even better than Google Reader for my purposes (checking hundreds of feeds daily, archiving interesting posts locally, and syncing read posts with iOS).

[1] https://feedhq.org "Import and export your data as OPML, use the API to back it up or build amazing apps on top of FeedHQ. You can even run your own FeedHQ instance or help improving it, it's open-source!"

[2] http://reederapp.com/mac/ "A news reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler, FeedHQ, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, Inoreader, Minimal Reader, BazQux Reader, Fever, Readability and Instapaper."

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komali2 wrote: post #132
zanny wrote: post #97

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How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader? It isn't the protocol, it is that there is no profit in an open standard like that. Google killed their Reader because they wanted everyone forced into G+, rather than consuming content from around the Internet. It is the same thing with messaging and VOIP. Nobody wants to use an open standard like XMPP or more recently Matri…

By having your articles directly on your site, linked to via a "feed reader" that everyone already uses - twitter, facebook, reddit, etc. I remember trying to get into RSS feeds a few years back. I passed them by - it was easier to just hit news.google.com or my multireddit or twitterfeed for news I was interested in. Sure, I didn't "get it," and yea fine I'm not the smartest guy ever, but I'm probably a good represe…

Twitter is transitory, Facebook isn't chronological, Reddit puts you at the whims of other people.

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dsr_ wrote: post #53
adrianN wrote: post #49

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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.

Would it be better if Twitter produced RSS feeds? Yes. In the meantime, don't let the best be the enemy of the good.

The best is also the enemy of the worst. I basically have no use for twitter minus an RSS feed. Why would I bother trying a 3rd part application when twitter pulled the rug out from under me?

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kristianc wrote: post #60

RSS was and still is great for following a few blogs that were relatively infrequently updated. If I follow Rands, DF or Marco, it works quite well. I receive timely, relevant content at a pace I can cope with and digest. The problem with RSS is that it scales incredibly badly for large, content heavy sites. I don't really want to see everything that Gizmodo publishes. I certainly don't want to see everything that Hu…

I feel like we cold solve this with better feed threading. Take every article with certain URLs in common and present them in a threaded view.

This way the massive content mils would get written down to a single chain.

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yoha wrote: post #142
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

If any of these will work with Reeder I think I just found my weekend project.

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Post by branchless »

AjithAntony wrote: post #150
branchless wrote: post #135

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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

Interesting, thank you.

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Post by angus-g »

thescribe wrote: post #178
yoha wrote: post #142

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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

If any of these will work with Reeder I think I just found my weekend project.

I know that both Miniflux (previously used) and TinyTinyRSS (currently using) work with Reeder (via the Fever API). It's a bit annoying that the Fever API doesn't provide any way to add feeds though, so you'll need to do that in-browser.
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