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Goodbye, Feedly

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Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Semiapies »

prepend wrote: post #34
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…

> This writer is really entitled Yes, but no. They are entitled like you and I, and everyone, is entitled to good products and not being angry when using them. They aren’t especially entitled to the point to use the word as an insult. Feedly sells ads. So it’s free, but they include ads. They aren’t a charity benevolently putting out the app and everyone should suck it up and be thankful. Obviously, people can choose…

They are entitled like you and I, and everyone, is entitled to good products and not being angry when using them.

Sure, if you're paying for it. If not, prepare for all the ways a company is going to try to make the service profitable, starting with ads and come-ons to paid tiers.

Don't want that? Pay, or self-host something. It's absolutely entitled to make an indignant post about why you're changing away from a service you've used for nine years that amounts to the bastards want to make money off me.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by roldie »

stereoradonc wrote: post #35

Try 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…

Another shoutout for Inoreader. Been using it for years. The free tier is great, but the paid tier is seriously one of the best investments I've ever made

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by timbit42 »

shimmeringleaf wrote: post #11
hestefisk wrote: post #7

NetNewsWire user here. It’s very good. Would love one running on Linux natively.

Seconded, it would be lovely to have cross platform. Simple and just works without fuss. Now, if only more websites would have RSS feeds these days.. it's been a steady decline.

QuiteRSS. It even runs on OS/2.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by simonw »

aflag wrote: post #100
motoxpro wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There is very little simple about running an RSS aggregator, especially at scale.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by PaulHoule »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #107
bayindirh wrote: post #86

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> is that really so bad? In case of Feedly, yes. I feel like a hamster being tried to be converted. Feedly's free tier doesn't feel like free. It feels like a getaway drug which tries to make you pay for other features. I have used for a week, then SDF announced availability of their TTRSS instance. As a paying member, I moved there. I am much more happier now. TTRSS is free and open source. I'm just supporting SDF s…

> In case of Feedly, yes. I feel like a hamster being tried to be converted. You are a hamster trying to be converted. That’s the point of the free tier. You could just pay for it and the nagging would stop. You are now paying for TTRSS and have the experience of a paying customer.

Hard to say.

Part of the appeal of advertising in Cosmpolitan or the New York Times is that the readers have qualified themselves by paying for a subscription.

Netflix is playing a dangerous game by letting people pay to turn on ads because the kind of person who values their attention so little to save a few dollars isn’t going to buy anything. The really desirable people to advertise to are the ones who have more money to spend.

My guess is that a person who subscribes to the entry level of a product is more likely to be upsold to something else than a free user is going to even think about paying. (e.g. try watching TV during the daytime and it is depressing to see ads for prescription drugs and Medicare scams and personal injury lawyers, the one thing you might rarely see that people spend their own money on is car dealerships and I guess they need those because I’d nobody bought a car you could never get hit by a car and call William Mattar.)

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Rudism »

butz wrote: post #44

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.

Second this. I've been self-hosting Miniflux for years and love it. It's dead simple to run (a single executable daemon or docker container that you can run behind a reverse proxy) and it sounds like exactly what the author of this article is looking for--no frills RSS reader with a very minimalist interface.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by Adraghast »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #21
tribby wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 exp…

> It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

This is an argument for the intentional creation of bad software.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by uallo »

I've been a non-paying Feedly user since Google Reader shut down. I think their nagging is tolerable. I currently see no point in an upgrade as I don't miss any feature.

I've also been a long-time user of Pocket. I would really like them to add feed functionality to their service. It would make it very easy to find new things to read while also having a list of things to read later. That would be a very good value proposition in my opinion, and a reason to pay them.

Re: Goodbye, Feedly

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Post by spidersouris »

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…

> Edit: I pay £10/month for Adobe Creative Cloud and get Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator, etc. I pay ~£8/month for Office 365 and get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. All massively rich and powerful tools. Why does feedly imagine I would want to pay £5/month to read rss feeds?

Because Freedly doesn't have Microsoft or Adobe's budget and needs to have its costs covered?

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