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Goodbye, Feedly

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Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by ianai »

prepend wrote: post #32
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…

> is that really so bad? I think in many situations, yes. I grew up with shareware and so I know that prompts are necessary to drive income. What the prompts in this article are so bad at is that they are perpetual. Is it really necessary to nag a user over and over for something they don’t want and declined? That is probably not going to work in the long run as people associate a bad experience with the product. Fig…

They could just have an “ad” screen like the about screen. Encourage users to check it out or leave it open for a time as a source of support for the product.

I’m guessing the most innocuous is just a banner ad of reasonable size that doesn’t detract too much from usable space.

Or, you know, people could pay for their software.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by applefangirl »

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…

I guess it's a matter of opinion because Feedly's interface looks cluttered to me. It's not a bad offender for a webapp but compared to other feed readers its interface is IMO busy.

Also a matter of opinion but app developers IMO shouldn't use their apps to market. I've already got an email app and a Feed reader. If I want to keep up with you I'll subscribe to your mailing list or follow your feed.

I disable auto-update because I get annoyed when apps tell me about new versions (and I have privacy concerns.) I wont consider using an app that doesn't let me disable auto update. I already have a strategy to keep my software up-to-date that works on my schedule.

I recognize I'm sensitive to these things but that doesn't mean they aren't justified or don't make sense. They just don't make sense * to you *.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by lawgimenez »

I have been using Reeder for years now, I use it also for read it later integrated with Pocket. I love the latest update because I get to set the fonts to San Francisco Rounded which is one of my favorite fonts.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by butz »

Miniflux works great for me. Took a few months to get used to minimal layout, but it has everything that I need to read RSS feeds. I'm using paid hosted version, but there is an open source version which can be self-hosted.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by PaulKeeble »

FreshRSS (https://freshrss.org/) is self hosted and its what I have been using for years. There are a variety of RSS web readers you can deploy to a home server or NAS or even just a raspberry pi stuck in the corner they aren't very resource intensive as programs and the docker images make them really easy to deploy.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by boboche »

Same path here, google, feedly, ragequit feedly due to bloat/jirafication, now inoreader. Up to 150 feeds supported, works awesome on ipad and web.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by madsbuch »

Growth vs. value, development vs. maintenance, innovation vs. operations.

It really seems like a lot of projects should embrace the the path of becoming a stable product: Charging 10 USD a year, assigning a single person to a comfy job of maintaining the app without adding new features. Just maintaining infrastructure, updating packages, and doing the occasional exchange of stack when old technologies are deprecated...

Why doesn't that happen more?

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by applefangirl »

PainfullyNormal wrote: post #26
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?

True, and in the case of the Mac you've got a lot of good options with different design choices.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by criddell »

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…

> What does the author think feedly should do with its free tier?

Not the author, but I think they should restrict the free tier to a small number of feeds rather than nag. Asking users to pay to get more is positive whereas asking users to pay to reduce nagging is negative.

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