O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader • Hacker News Board

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by alxndr » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:35 AM UTC

hemmer wrote: post #19

I've tried a variety of RSS readers recently for keeping track of academic publications (arxiv and journal feeds etc). I've settled on inoreader [1] as this: (i) includes a search feature in the free tier, (ii) has keyword highlighting (useful for trawling through long lists of papers), (iii) has a reliable Android app. [1] http://www.inoreader.com

Another happy paid customer of Inoreader here. The chrome is small and out of the way, keyboard shortcuts work well, it syncs read/unread status well between the website and the mobile app, and I like using the Star feature as a way of marking items I'd like to revisit later.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by jimbobimbo » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 4:45 AM UTC

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 tried to like Newsblur (in fact, I paid for 3 years), but couldn't - it's just way too "over the top" for me. I ended up signing up (and paying too) for Yoleo Reader. I guess, functionality-wise it's no match Newsblur's, but it's much easier to use too.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by amk_ » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 6:45 AM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #173

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.

Same. It's the only reader that has intuitive keyboard shortcuts to navigate the selection between the feed, article list, and the actual article. And it looks nice. Well worth $3/mo.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 6:45 AM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #173

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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Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by Uw7yTcf36gTc » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

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…

have you looked into theoldreader.com ? its essentially google reader.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by vanderZwan » Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 11:23 AM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #161

vanderZwan wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What features were those?

The sharing of RSS feeds, and arguably even better: the bookmarklet to share any page on the internet

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by 1123581321 » Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 4:35 PM UTC

xaduha wrote: post #4

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.

https://digg.com/reader does the job for me. It's probably even better than Google Reader was.

Digg Reader is good, but it has issues showing the correct list of unread items.