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Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by dmxt »

guptaneil wrote: post #37
icelancer wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was very excited to try Newsblur. It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended. Oh well. Time to move on.

What's wrong with paying for a service that you find useful?

I don't have any method of paying online, well, there is, but it takes too much of effort doing the paperwork in bank that it's not even worth it. I don't live in first world country.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by georgeoliver »

I looked at 10 or 15 readers and am using Feedly at the moment. I tweaked it a little to get a minimal and compact layout.

http://wp.me/aseR-cs

I added an extension [1] to open articles in a background tab (their keyboard shortcut foregrounds the new tab).

I made a simple new style in Stylish [2] to streamline the UI:

  #feedlyTitleBar {display:none !important;}
  #feedlyPageHeader {display:none !important;}
  #systemBar {display:none !important;}
So far this works for me.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedly-will-open-e...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by mkr-hn »

FYI: There's 1400+ votes on a feature request for getting rid of the extension https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge...

Vote for it if you want to hammer the point in. The extension is probably for that irritating button that's on all pages until you disable it (preferences at the bottom of the folder list).

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

#45

Post by Kopion »

georgeoliver wrote: post #43

I looked at 10 or 15 readers and am using Feedly at the moment. I tweaked it a little to get a minimal and compact layout. http://wp.me/aseR-cs I added an extension [1] to open articles in a background tab (their keyboard shortcut foregrounds the new tab). I made a simple new style in Stylish [2] to streamline the UI: #feedlyTitleBar {display:none !important;} #feedlyPageHeader {display:none !important;} #systemBar {…

So much relative effort and baggage compared to how Reader works. Reader's death continues to sadden me.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

#46

Post by jcoder »

icelancer wrote: post #25
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this. Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.

Was very excited to try Newsblur. It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended. Oh well. Time to move on.

It is free---it's OSS. But you can pay him to host your feeds for you.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by georgeoliver »

Kopion wrote: post #45
georgeoliver wrote: post #43

I looked at 10 or 15 readers and am using Feedly at the moment. I tweaked it a little to get a minimal and compact layout. http://wp.me/aseR-cs I added an extension [1] to open articles in a background tab (their keyboard shortcut foregrounds the new tab). I made a simple new style in Stylish [2] to streamline the UI: #feedlyTitleBar {display:none !important;} #feedlyPageHeader {display:none !important;} #systemBar {…

So much relative effort and baggage compared to how Reader works. Reader's death continues to sadden me.

Actually I had to make the same changes to Reader.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

#49

Post by mkr-hn »

dmxt wrote: post #41
guptaneil wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with paying for a service that you find useful?

I don't have any method of paying online, well, there is, but it takes too much of effort doing the paperwork in bank that it's not even worth it. I don't live in first world country.

Install a LAMP/WAMP thing (+ python) and run NewsBlur locally. You could even make a local edition where people can pay you in person.
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