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Goodbye, Feedly

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Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

tribby wrote: post #14
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #8

I dont understqnd this attitude. I use feedly and like the author of tfa I don't pay them any money, so I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. I have a lot of sympathy for feedly: it seems like a really hard thing to get people to pay for. What does the author think feedly should do with its free tier? Before feedly I self hosted TinyTinyRss for a while (kind of slow) an…

> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative without any junk to ignore.

I probably didn't express myself sufficiently clearly. I'm pleased that the author has moved from a Web app to local, open source apps. Definitely a good move, particularly on mobile. What I don't get is going to the effort of writing a blog post about the annoyance of using the free tier of a service provided by a commercial business. That tier is there to let people try the service. It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by jzb »

lbriner wrote: post #17
jollins wrote: post #13

This writer is really entitled. It is a free tier for a service that costs money to host and maintain. Of course there are upgrade prompts. I use Feedly (free) as a hosting service, and Reeder or one of the other many great RSS client apps as the frontend to it, so I don’t have to see the feedly interface.But the Feedly API I use constantly and it is extremely solid. That’s part of the greatness of RSS services. If t…

I think that is a bit unfair. Many of us have used something that was originally a certain way and worked and we have let it get embedded and useful at which point it becomes more and more complicated, maybe the upgrade prompts become much more prominent and we feel let down by something that doesn't actually solve the problem any more. I don't know Feedly's history and whether it was originally Open Source or not bu…

If you have a problem solved by software, pay for it. They’re not a charity. If you’re just using without giving back you have zero standing to feel let down. Feedly is a SaaS, not a foss project. They have bills to pay.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by vanderZwan »

ismaildonmez wrote: post #3

https://theoldreader.com/ is still the best thing after Google Reader.

I tried it when they started, it was a sluggish mess that also did not use the browser cache correctly. Maybe I noticed because I had thousands of RSS feeds, I dunno. Granted, that was a decade ago so I hope they improved it since.

I stick to https://newsblur.com/. It has it's quirks but is way, way faster (two days ago a redesign came out that makes it so fast I feel like I'm using the old Google Reader again)

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by scarface74 »

I deleted Feedly from my phone a long time ago for some reason. I can’t remember why. It wasn’t because I didn’t like it.

I redownloaded it a few weeks ago and it was a shit show. I looked for other alternatives and I found NetNewsWire.

It has a long history of first being a commercial product by an indy Mac dev. He sold it to another company, reacquired the rights, updated it and now it’s free and open source for the Mac and iOS. It’s clean and does the basics.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by PainfullyNormal »

longrod wrote: post #12

Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad? Live and let live, I say. Not everyone is running a charity and Feedly is nowhere even near the top of the list of software ripping off their users or selling their d…

> but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad?

If you have two viable options where one is a profound annoyance to you and one isn't, why wouldn't you choose the second option?

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by mikechalmers »

ismaildonmez wrote: post #3

https://theoldreader.com/ is still the best thing after Google Reader.

Agreed - I've been using it since Google Reader ended and have used it practically daily since. While they've implemented some limitations and premium options, the interface has stayed basically the same with some unobtrusive elements.

I did have to cull some inactive blogs at one point, to stay within my tier limit, but was happy to do so. Incredible that it's been 9 years with barely any UI changes - I think this demonstrates how effective it is.

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