I love Google Reader! For Android users, I highly recommend D7 Reader - https://sites.google.com/site/d7reader/
It's quite a bit better than the official app.
Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
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Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
NewsBlur is awesome. I think it's the visual refresh that google reader needs. It also has a public documented API which is awesome. Google readers API users have to cobble together documentation of a private API. After a public API was promised years ago. But one gripe, when is newsblur going to get google reader sync. As many have mentioned on this thread they like using google reader as the backend sync between ma…
About two-way sync: it wouldn't make sense. Since NewsBlur hides stories below your intelligence threshold, many stories would be unread in Reader but simply hidden in NewsBlur. That, and the whole story sync problem would be a huge bear. It comes down to NewsBlur being its own reader. The import from Google Reader is the only time NewsBlur talks to Reader. I'm thinking about further integration with Google using Goo…
Thank you for taking the time to explain that. I can see now why it wouldn't be simple.
This poses a problem for me, and possibly others though. I like to attempt to read almost all of what comes down my funnel. I have built a priority system already inside of google reader. I have folders basicaly 1 - 10, that ranks the importance of things. For example, I can usually read my folder 1 everyday, 100% of it. As I have time I will read through lower folders.
So, with this system I have done part of what newsblur does which is to help me seek the good stuff. This even works across clients. So I can use the google reader web UI, and Reeder.
I would love to be able to use the newsblur web UI in place of the google reader API, but without the sync it wouldn't fit into my system.
I know that my system may not be something you want to cater to, but hopefully you can understand how for some people google reader sync is very important.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#183I 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…
I love the concept, but I find it's slow to use in practice. Any plans to preload pages to improve the speed? For example, you could preload upcoming posts in hidden iframes so they're cached locally by the time you visit them.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#184The one feature gReader is missing, which may drive me to an alternative, is the ability to chose a set of items to mark as read.
I can "mark all as read", of course, but I'd like to be able to eliminate items I can tell from the title are not of immediate interest.
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#185I have been an everyday RSS user for a few years now. Jumped around trying Bloglines, a few desktop clients, Google Reader, some unknown smaller sites, etc over that time. Finally I found my perfect aggregator and have been using it daily for about 8 months now. I even took it upon myself to donate a few bucks to developer.
Simple, free and open source: http://rsslounge.aditu.de/ Only catch is it requires your own host/webserver with PHP/SQL and a quick installation. But well worth it for me as I just dropped it onto one of my websites.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#186No
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#187I 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…
I love the concept, but I find it's slow to use in practice. Any plans to preload pages to improve the speed? For example, you could preload upcoming posts in hidden iframes so they're cached locally by the time you visit them.
It depends on the site. It can be slow on ridiculously huge sites (ahem, TechCrunch, Gothamist, Macrumors, etc), but in that case you can just switch them to the Feed view instead of the Original view. The Feed view is instantaneous and it's how you get the speed back on those sites.
It's not ideal, but that means you can still use Original view for the 90% of sites that you still want to see. Plus you can set the Feed view as the default and just switch to the Original view on a per-site basis.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#188Reader is also great for managing podcasts via "Listen" (Google's Android Podcast app). Nice because they show up with the rest of my RSS feeds.
This actually annoys me, if I mark a new podcast read in reader it never downloads and queues on the phone if it hasn't already polled and seen the new item. I end up marking them unread over and over until I check to see if my phone has actually downloaded them.
I use the Android interface most of the time and only occasionally use embedded player via reader. I do subscribe and manage my subscriptions a lot via the reader interface, however.
I am not surprised if you've had trouble with the Listen app, however. It's really languished. Podcasts seem to me one of the still killer content features of our smart phones, yet we're still waiting for a rev on this app. For a while I was reading that the dev team behind it was focusing on the next gen "Listen and Watch" app, but who knows where that is.
Love android, but some core apps are really half finished.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#189I used to go through cycles reading RSS feeds and declaring RSS bankruptcy, but I've given up. I need a priority queue RSS reader. Show me the N most "important" posts across all my feeds since I last visited. Importance would be calculated a number of ways: * Prioritize posts from low volume feeds. I probably want to see every post from a friend who blogs once a month, but not every post from Engadget. * Most favori…
isn't that HN? and please don't downvote, I'm being serious.
HN has essentially been my replacement, but it only covers certain topics, not the long tail. For example my friends' blog posts might not be popular enough for HN (or at all related) but I still want to see them.
Also, if everyone just read HN where would the submissions come from?
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#190yes