Friends of mine have built Inkl [1]. I think it's a pretty good alternative to Google Newsstand (I assume that falls under "Google News").
Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
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#12Nextcloud [1] with the News [2] app. Feed it whatever RSS/Atom feeds you want - which can include Google News feeds - and let it rip. You can read the feeds in a browser or in one of the compatible apps [3] (14 of them are listed here, there might be others).
Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#13Why not use something like feedly, with your own rss feeds ?
Just to give another option, I use feedbin, $3pcm and open source. I looked at it and feedly, the latter seemed to (deliberately) abstract RSS too far from my perspective.
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#14I like newsmap.jp, but Feedly is my news source of choice.
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#15Should adjust this question to say desktop aggregation version, and I am assuming this ASK is in response to the recent Google News redesign that pretty much removed the desktop version of the site.
Apps and mobile is cool and all, but high density or high volume data consumption is not the use case for those platforms.
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#16I like newsmap.jp, but Feedly is my news source of choice.
newsmap.jp is a great tool. Wish it was opensource, or was for profit so I could pay for it.
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#17https://statesreport.com is a project I wrote as an alternative.
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#18Why not use something like feedly, with your own rss feeds ?
I have (and still use) a feed reader, but it doesn't really replace Google News. It's often helpful to have an algorithm tell you what's important on other news sources you're not reading. It's also nice that it filters out a lot of the noise/click-bait that all publishers use nowadays.
Second this, in that I mostly don't want to maintain a current and relevant RSS list of a size that I would want to have. RSS is also a firehose which can be just as bad as a small list of sources.
Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#19Nextcloud [1] with the News [2] app. Feed it whatever RSS/Atom feeds you want - which can include Google News feeds - and let it rip. You can read the feeds in a browser or in one of the compatible apps [3] (14 of them are listed here, there might be others). [1] https://nextcloud.com/ [2] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news [3] https://github.com/nextcloud/news#sync-clients
Im looking for a curated major news service i.e. stories curated from various major newspapers.
Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#20Should adjust this question to say desktop aggregation version, and I am assuming this ASK is in response to the recent Google News redesign that pretty much removed the desktop version of the site. Apps and mobile is cool and all, but high density or high volume data consumption is not the use case for those platforms.
The redesign isnt an issue...works well enough on desktop. I just refuse to use a news service where 50% or more of the health stories are viagra spam. Completely unacceptable. Especially since people have been reporting it to google for the past month. It makes me wonder about the quality of their curation.