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Re: Poll: Best RSS reader

#31

The best RSS clients that I've found (Reeder for iOS and Pulse for Android) both use Google Reader as a backend to keep the feed list in sync. I don't really want a whole ecosystem, any social features, a fancy web site, etc. All I really want from an alternative is for it to provide an API for keeping feed lists in sync and for the many Google Reader clients currently available to support it.

For me gReader is the best Android client.

Re: Poll: Best RSS reader

#32
post #27

reeder app is so good, I'm afraid Im tied to it and have to go with whoever Silvio chooses to go with. But otherwise, yeah newsblur's learning feature seems pretty cool.

Same boat. I really hope he just builds his own iCloud-based syncing solution, and saves us the trouble of relying on an external service.

Re: Poll: Best RSS reader

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll If you meet the secret criteria for creating one, you should be able to.

It's 200 Karma

Oh if that's all. It was said to be a high limit, but downvoting has a much higher limit (750). Anyway, thanks for the reply

Re: Poll: Best RSS reader

#36
Hi, Rssminer is a personal weekend project, it's open source [1]

I create it because I want to learn how to do one page webapp with Backbone.js, but at the last, I drop backbone, life become much easier.

When writing it, I need an async HTTP Server and Client, so I write one myself, called http-kit[2], it seems that it's more popular than Rssminer.

Rssminer is not feature complete as other ones, It has:

1. Import subscription list from Google Reader 2. Feed reading 3. Keyboard support 4. Fast (the landing page is not very fast, though) 5. Run it yourself, the readme on github has detailed procedure about how to run it locally.

Bug report or pull request are welcome. Let's build a Rss reader we like.

[1] https://github.com/shenfeng/rssminer [2] http://http-kit.org

Re: Poll: Best RSS reader

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/gregarius

A fine self-hosted web-based alternative to Google Reader. There has been no project activity lately but the software works just fine, I have been using it since 2006 - just keep it private for security's sake. It scales well with a lot of feeds.
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