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Goodbye, Feedly

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Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Kye »

Ferret7446 wrote: post #40
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…

Entitled? Kind of? The thing is, RSS reader clients are pretty much a solved problem, and they aren't particularly resource intensive. You can run your own FreshRSS instance for example for free ( https://www.felesatra.moe/blog/2022/06/25/easy-freshrss , you do need a domain name though if you want HTTPS, or just run it on your local machine).

A lot of the service they provide is figuring out how to load out of spec or outright broken feeds. They had some blog posts on this back in the early post-Google Reader days. A self-hosted option will eventually fail to load a feed, and there's not much you can do unless you're a developer.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by otsaloma »

The author complains he couldn't add a Reddit RSS feed. I once looked into this. It was already a few years ago, but I guess it hasn't changed. The problem is that updating all Reddit feeds of all Feedly users goes way above Reddit's API call rate limits. So, it's probably simply not possible in a centralized free service. The problem isn't so much Feedly, but the various sites' (not only Reddit) ignorance or hostility towards RSS that results in these kinds of implementations.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by rammy1234 »

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…

It does makes sense to me. RSS feeds were supposed to get you to the articles quick enough. With all these pop ups and ads and whatever, we lose the essence of RSS.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by b-lee »

dwighttk wrote: post #55

Huh. I use Feedly but access it through Reeder and don’t seem to have many troubles. Every once in a while I think of unsubscribing to a feed and it is a bit of an adventure, but that is my only complaint.

BTW I didn't understand the need for connecting Feedly to reader. Why didn't you simply import the OPML from Feedly to Reeder?

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by rammy1234 »

criddell wrote: post #49
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.

Absolutely 100%, myself and my friend were discussing the same about products. An upgrade should be about getting the same benefits but more. 10X speed upgrade does make product look bad. Instead reducing number of feeds you can have or grouping etc but a bad product is not a free tier. It is nuisance to deal with in our busy lives.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Gualdrapo »

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…

The second, widest menu can be hidden (and keeps hidden) just with a single click.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by sys_64738 »

I moved to InoReader after the Google Reader cull and must say it’s been pretty consistent in quality. I usually pick up a good deal around Thanksgiving.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Gualdrapo »

jefftk wrote: post #54

> One of the features is that I will get “new articles up to 10x faster”. What’s that supposed to mean? That I have not been getting new articles straight away when I visit Feedly? One of the features of Pro is that they'll pull the feeds you're subscribed to at a higher frequency. I think this is an example of doing freemium well!

Was going to mention this. For example, I see HN posts via Feedly. But after each fetch for "new" articles, the most recent ones it shows me from HN are from an hour ago at least. For some other websites it pulls their "most recent" content from the previous day.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by htk »

For those in the Apple ecosystem I recommend NetNewsWire. It can sync with iCloud without needing any extra services. I use it on my Macs, iPads and iPhone.

(I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy user)

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by r2222 »

I’ve been very happy with https://feedbin.com

It’s a paid RSS syncing service and web app too, costs $5 per month, I use it with Reeder (and NetNewsWire etc). It doesn’t have any social cruft or AI assistants or ML companions.

I was also a Feedly user when I decided to try Feedbin, and I immediately noticed how much faster fetching the feeds was on Feedbin. I also like to have my email newsletters in same place (forward them to a Feedbin-provided email address), and I can have filters to mark things like sponsored posts and podcast show notes as read automatically, basically like mute filters.

Feedly premium tier costs pretty much the same, and I wonder how well it would stack against Feedbin. There’s also Inoreader which I think offers pretty similar feature set for a pretty similar price.

Feedly free tier is excellent, and you can work around many of its shortcomings by using an RSS reader app. For example, Feedly free doesn’t offer full text articles, but I can extract the full text with Reeder/NetNewsWire/etc on the client-side. If you really don’t care about speed, mute filters, or reading newsletters in your RSS reader, then Feedly free tier is already more than enough.

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