so whats a good rss reader in 2017?
Inoreader
I still cannot see how https://www.inoreader.com/ doesn't get more love. I easily moved to it from Google Reader, and spend my day in the web browser version, and night with the App on my phone.
RSS: there's nothing better
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Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#282I mostly consume my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where 70% of the time you don't have cellphone or WiFi signal. While my preferred RSS reader NewsBlur can download everything up front, for offline use, I tend to find a lot of sites truncate their articles (with a 'Click here to continue reading!") or just post a headline and a one sentence summary. This makes me dislike using RSS, not because of the technolog…
If you use the Android app, just pop the site into original text mode and it will attempt to prefetch the un-truncated article.
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Tried feedly and it did not stick for reasons I no longer recall :-)
https://theoldreader.com/ does the job perfectly
Former Bloglines dev here. I prefer https://www.inoreader.com/
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
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https://theoldreader.com/ does the job perfectly
Former Bloglines dev here. I prefer https://www.inoreader.com/
Ultimately, I ended up with Digg Reader. Don't remember exactly how many platforms I tried, maybe a half dozen?.
Feedly was one contender, The Old Reader was another.
The primary reason I settled on Digg is that they came out with an iPhone app relatively quickly after they launched. Regrettably, their iPhone app has been broken for maybe 6 months now. Digg used an OAuth web-view embedded user agent. Google appears to no longer to support such requests from apps. Digg needs to update the app with Google's other authentication libraries.
Might have to find a new platform again. sigh...
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://theoldreader.com/ does the job perfectly
Former Bloglines dev here. I prefer https://www.inoreader.com/
Annnnnnd I've just opened an account with inoreader. Probably will make a jump over. Digg has annoyed me long enough. They can't find / pay a reliable IOS developer.
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
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This is an interesting point of view. I personally never understood why someone would need to "like" an update. Thus, I've never understood the appeal of things like facebook. All I need is RSS.
When I've tried RSS in the past, I've ended up with a deluge of content to sift through. That may be partially my own fault for subscribing to actively updated sites, but I would've welcomed ways to filter out posts based on the user feedback of peers. That's part of the reason sites like HN are helpful in finding interesting content.
Newsblur offers personalization of your feed content through simple up down feedback. Surprisingly effective.
That being said I prefer the firehose to a crafted cocktail.
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#287I wrote about this recently[1]. The "problem" with RSS, that essentially lead to it falling out of favour, is that it is pure consumption, not interaction. You can't "like" an update that comes to you via RSS, nor comment, nor easily share. It's difficult for sites to monetise it, or track, or promote their own agenda. It's not "social" and since every other site these days needs to be social, whether through aforeme…
And this is why Google Reader was amazing. There we were, my friends and I, reading RSS feeds and liking/sharing/commenting amongst ourselves. pours one out
Of all the products I've used over the years that no longer exist Google Reader is the only one I still constantly miss. At least once or twice a week I think about how I wish it was still around. I use Digg now, but it's just not quite the same.
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#288Absolutely, there's nothing better! Contrary to trends & general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation & monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.
I'm speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#289I also use RSS as a way of publishing configuration and firmware updates to a set of users/devices. Works great: surfs infrastructure we already have, supports browsing past versions etc, and I didn't have to write any clients for looking things up. This is for a rather large, global, corporate-internal system, not a commercial product, though I got the idea when thinking about solutions for a commercial product a fe…
This would make a great write up / blog post if you have time.
Re: RSS: there's nothing better
#290This is why I made a service to serve up RSS feeds for Youtube channels, ytrss.co.
Love live RSS! :)