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Reeder. It lacks what all RSS feeds seem to lack - a "mark all up to here as read" feature. If I have 1000 unread items in a stream and I leaf through 200 of them I want to right click and article and mark all chronologically preceding articles as read. Nothing seems to do that.
Reeder. It lacks what all RSS feeds seem to lack - a "mark all up to here as read" feature. If I have 1000 unread items in a stream and I leaf through 200 of them I want to right click and article and mark all chronologically preceding articles as read. Nothing seems to do that.
I use Google Reader and I like most of its features. It lacks the aforementioned :)
What could be improved? Well, access to protected, private feeds that require authentication would be good. The problem is, of course, that the workarounds for Google Reader to access private feeds (http://lifehacker.com/5432277/access-password+protected-feed... and http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/subscribe-to-authen...) kind of worry me.
Reeder (www.reederapp.com), having tried many and stopped reading any RSS feeds for a good while because I got too frustrated with them all. It's a front-end to Google Reader, which I really didn't enjoy using. Main thing I'd like is the smarts to filter out stories which are essentially the same, but perhaps not exactly the same. Oh, and if I bookmark/star something, then next time the same story comes up, highlight…
Yes please!! This is the feature I always find myself wanting. (Using Akregator / Kontact in KDE.) So many stories are duplicated at various stories that the ability to hide all but one where the target URL is the same would save lots of time.
Stopped using an RSS reader a long time ago because I just couldn't keep up with all the content. Too many unreads, too much noise, got sick of it and figured I'd get the good stuff through Twitter or HN if it was really important. If you're building an RSS reader, I suggest you build one that filters out all the garbage and only shows me what I should really read. I honestly don't think we need "yet another RSS read…
Stopped using an RSS reader a long time ago because I just couldn't keep up with all the content. Too many unreads, too much noise, got sick of it and figured I'd get the good stuff through Twitter or HN if it was really important. If you're building an RSS reader, I suggest you build one that filters out all the garbage and only shows me what I should really read. I honestly don't think we need "yet another RSS read…
There was a Waterloo-based company called AideRSS that did just this. Then, they became Postrank. Postrank was recently bought by Google, so perhaps they will add some kind of smart filtering to Google Reader.
I ported my Instapaper articles as a RSS feed, so if I want to read something later I'll do that through GReader. So if you could find a way to take out that step, although it isn't really a big deal.
Also on my phone I've accidentally hit "mark all as read" a few times, which is really frustrating when I've lost hundreds of items that I wanted to read. There's way to undo that, which is depressing.
Frankly I'm a little surprised that not everyone on here is using a RSS reader. It just seems like such an efficient way to get new content. So much of what I read now comes through it instead of typing in nytimes.com or something or using a bookmark, especially since I find myself on a lot of different computers.
I really hope RSS feeds never go away as they are so essential to me. But it's a thing that never really seemed to catch on with the non-geek public, even though it so obviously makes sense for everyone to use.
Stopped using an RSS reader a long time ago because I just couldn't keep up with all the content. Too many unreads, too much noise, got sick of it and figured I'd get the good stuff through Twitter or HN if it was really important. If you're building an RSS reader, I suggest you build one that filters out all the garbage and only shows me what I should really read. I honestly don't think we need "yet another RSS read…