I use Firefox live bookmarks.
I tried many feed readers but I never find them as convenient. I must be broken.
Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
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#152Every morning starts with coffee and Liferea.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience Reader doesn't store all historic posts. Posts older then a month or two start disappearing.
What is an example you have? It seems that it has historic posts as long as anyone else every has followed the feed via Reader previously. Likewise, it won't display old posts in the list, but will dynamically load them as you "try" to scroll down. Perhaps one of these is what would happen for you?
There isn't a specific example feed. It used to happen for all unread posts. I don't know if it still happens or not as I don't leave enough posts unread anymore.
The exact behavior was with several hundred unread posts in Reader with the oldest unread being 2-3 months old the oldest posts would slowly disappear. I know it was happening because they would be posts I wanted to read but didn't have time to so I would notice when they disappeared. It is possible they were still in Reader in a read state but I never bothered to check.
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#154I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com . It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay . It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of…
Good work there! Just wanted to point out that if you cycle through the feeds quickly on Chrome, the memory footprint keeps increasing and drags the system. Worked fine on IE though.
Didn't cause me any problems Chrome 13.0.782.99 beta, Mac OS X
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience Reader doesn't store all historic posts. Posts older then a month or two start disappearing.
I think you catched a glitch for some specific blog, I just subscribed to an interesting blog and can go back many years ago.
No. It was not a specific blog. I explained the issue in more detail in child comment of your comments sibling. It has been months if not years since I last noticed it so Google may have fixed it.
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#156"Everyone says" blogs are dead. Maybe they've been replaced by Twitter. But for me, reading blogs is essential: I learn a great deal from them. Many reputable news sources also have RSS feeds. I read from several different locations so I need a web-based tool to be able to keep track of what I have read. I'd be happy to use another tool, but the only decent one I know of is Google Reader.
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#157I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com . It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay . It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of…
Fab!
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#158I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com . It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay . It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of…
If nothing else, Google's recent rework of the way they do apps accounts makes this an instant win for me. It's no longer been possible for me to have my reader open (logged into personal account) and my work email open in the same browser. I'm a new customer for that alone.. and it looks like there are plenty of other things to be excited about here. Thanks!
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#159I didn't use it much until I found you could interact with it via an API. This is what got me using it: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GRAY/WebService-Google-Reader...
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#160If you're a Google Reader user you may want to checkout this Chrome extension I built that enables full content feeds. It adds readable content or iframing of feed entries. Settings are per feed or folder and are transparently built into Google Reader.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/khbjahpecnkenngkid...