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Reeder. But here's the one feature I'd kill for. There will always be duplicate links fr different news sources, like Techmeme, Techcrunch, Hacker News and such pointing to the same article source. All if want is for those to be grouped together so I don't have to be exposed to the same article multiple times while scrolling through the feed.
+1 for dupes. Need to get rid of those. I use Google Reader.
Since I was not completely satisfied by it, I recently coded a simple RSS reader in Rails. It's really bare-bone and requires a lot of polishing, but it works.
Now it requires some love for implementing many of the ideas presented in this thread (duplicates, tagging & bayesian categorization, proper bookmarking, presenting only fresh news), but I don't have much time for it :(
Google Reader is the better feed reader I could find in both desktop and web categories. I like the sharing features, the only thing wrong is that it's not free software and not hosted on my server. I tried some GReader-like software but it was not as good, in particular regarding the keyboard-driven aspect.
I use google reader as well, although for me it's missing the options to sort feeds based on their name, and the option to hide any that don't have any unread items.
Probably not something you'll commonly hear, but: an easy way to program against an API and add widgets/plugins. Within newsrooms, where RSS readers get used professionally, it's frustrating having to work within the limitations of Google Reader and its unpublished API, yet on the other hand it's just not worth the engineering effort to create a reader from scratch since it's not a business-critical app.
An API will definitively be on my feature list, but I didn't know they were used in professional circles. Do you have any examples of such use cases?
Don't overthink what I meant with professional use, though, mainly it's just people using a reader with 10 times the feeds a regular user would have, and perhaps sharing their account with other people to go through unread content more quickly.
I use Google Reader, one feature that I would love to see expanded on Google Reader is tagging / organizing items which is pretty poor.
Missing features: - Mothball feeds I'm not reading lately but might want to pick back up in the future. - Topical aggregation of feeds/posts. - De-duping.
Not sure if I'd pay extra or switch readers for any of those features, however.
It lacks the ability to block multiple instances of the same article (from the same or different feeds).
It lacks the ability to to block by pattern (I really don't care about articles about Justin or Selena).
Here's the killer app that I haven't seen yet (though I haven't exactly looked too hard) - defining reader agents that can tag items as 'Important' or 'Look at me first' based on specified keywords or regexps. There's such a flood of information that it'd be nice to have a way to be notified easily of things that fall into whatever your current interests are.