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Goodbye, Feedly
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Re: Goodbye, Feedly
#92https://tt-rss.org/ is a free software, self-hosted alternative and https://ttrss.info/ is a paid hosted offering.
Re: Goodbye, Feedly
#93Try Inoreader. Besides a bevy of rich feature set, Inoreader has sales ONLY on Black Friday, and they usually extend the service by an additional 6 months if you pay yearly. It lacks Feedly's stupid UI. It's functional, fast, and I can zip through hundreds of feeds in no time. My favourite is the IFTTT and Readwise integration baked in. Alternatively, you can have the complete experience in Vivaldi itself. It comes w…
And the ad-free tier is much better value than Feedly, like one quarter of the price even if you don't do the Black Friday thing.
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#94Have we really fallen this low? How are there so many people in this comment section defending feedly while berating the author for what I would consider a level headed and fair assessment of the state of it.
As someone hunting constantly for a reader as simple as Google reader and feedly use to be it all makes perfect sense and is equally frustrating to me.
It's an RSS reader that no longer accepts many RSS feeds, that is a more than valid criticism and we should be allowed to be picky about that without being berated by our fellow HN readers.
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#95Going 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…
> 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? Don’t change things. It’s not hard. Leave things alone. Be consistent. Marketing? If you pay for it already that’s all the marketing needed. Don’t go trying to suck data from elsewhere with creeper policies to sell the data to creeper brokers.
> Marketing? If you pay for it already that’s all the marketing needed.
I mean, based on what the author said, they're not paying for it. In fact they're annoyed there is a button asking them to pay for it :D
Re: Goodbye, Feedly
#96Do you think there's an opportunity for a new RSS reader to emerge? And be financially successful, without the BS of ads, etc?
An open source RSS reader could easily be someone's weekend project...
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#97I've tried all the free services listed in this thread, and feedly is the best for me. I'd admit I never really like it's UI, but it's usable. And it didn't change much all these years.
Nowadays, I meanly just use the extension "Feedly Notifier" [1] to read (or open directly) articles in my browser, so I barely open feedly.com anymore. I highly recommend it.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedly-notifier/eg...
Re: Goodbye, Feedly
#98FreshRSS ( 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.
Been using freshrss and mostly happy with it. The UI is a little clunky but the biggest wishlist item is if they let me use article dates from feeds rather than fetch dates everywhere
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#99The 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 hostili…
reddit provides RSS feeds: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
The parent poster even acknowledged this.
The point is the feed is rate limited.
And you need one call per unique subreddit.
And Feedly's users collectively have more unique subreddits than the Reddit rate limit.
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#100So you liked Feedly for almost 10 years, but never bothered to support them financially. And now you complain that they go the extra mile trying to earn money?
Exactly. It's so comical. You were never going to support them making their software, never going to upgrade, never going to provide any value to them in anyway even though they provided value to you for 10 years. Seems like this is a good thing for feedly.
The author acknowledged that though. He seemed to even had considered buying it, but thought it was not worth it. He eventually settled on something simple and free. It doesn't surprise me that running a simple RSS feed tool is not profitable.