Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

blog.feedly.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 181 posts

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

#101

Post by martindale »

wyclif wrote: post #97
Confusion wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

>What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users. Shockingly, nerds that consume media via RSS don't tend to click on ads.

Bundles are where the money is at, not ads. Advertising is dead.

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

#102

Post by eurleif »

wyclif wrote: post #97
Confusion wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

>What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users. Shockingly, nerds that consume media via RSS don't tend to click on ads.

Google Reader didn't have ads. I've seen guesses that Google didn't want to risk upsetting media producers by displaying ads with their content.

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

#103

Post by _delirium »

wyclif wrote: post #97
Confusion wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

>What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users. Shockingly, nerds that consume media via RSS don't tend to click on ads.

I would've thought the readership data would be worth something as well, but perhaps they have that already via Google Analytics web-bugs?

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

#105

Post by rdl »

Feedly seems to be doing the best out of the alternatives for performance in light of the deluge of Reader refugees (Newsblur, WTF?) -- but it is still very "sparse" in layout. I haven't figured out a way to get a simple listing of articles per feed like Reader does, which means it won't work for me.

I want something even more dense than Reader, or at least no worse. TheOldReader is close, but I would prefer something with iOS clients as well.

TT-RSS is looking like the best option (even though it has no apps), but I don't really want to have to host a PHP app.

Philosophically I love Feedly (YC company, startup, etc.), but I don't think they want to make some dense power user tool like a direct Reader replacement.

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

#106

Post by rdl »

robgough wrote: post #79
Confusion wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

Agreed. I'm a big Google Reader user, and will inevitably be trying out Feedly, but just haven't had the chance yet. Judging by the amount of people I've spoken too over the last few days, there's a whole lot more than 500,000 of us. I'd love to see how many people Google considers not worth their time. I'd happily pay for Reader.

Yeah, I would have been fine with $5-10/mo for Reader. $20/mo would hurt, and I would have bitched, but paid it.

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

#107

Post by znowi »

In contrast to a lot of discontent about the Reader's demise, think about the opportunities it brings for this market? I've seen at least 10 alternatives popping up these last 2 days. Google leaving jump-started the competition in a seemingly stagnant field.

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

#108

Post by rdl »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #93
ezy wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad Newsblur is pretty badly designed. I mean, there's a lot of bling, but it's completely confusing and sometimes ugly. Magic icons everywhere, wierd fonts -- two different dropdowns on each entry for god's sake. It looks like it was designed by someone who used their IDE as a template for the UI. As an example of far too clever UI: Just try and change your password -- it's bizarre that it has no confirmation at…

I'm working on a really, really minimal news reader (sign up for updates here: http://signup.viafeeds.com ). I like the idea of Newsblur and Feedly a lot, but I don't feel like either of them capture the simplicity that Google Reader used to have, before the unfortunate redesign. I want to get back to that, and have a system that will seamlessly work across the web and mobile. It'll be a couple months before it's rea…

If you can make it dense (like Reader), I'll happily pay.

Also, please charge. Give people 5-10 feeds for free, but let me pay <$10/mo (or like $25/yr prepaid) for a power user version.

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

#109

Post by lucian1900 »

Cordiapxq wrote: post #71

Of course! This seems to be the most recommended substitute, my question is why? Is it really that much better than the rest?

It's the most similar to Google Reader (except perhaps for theoldreader), easiest import (no import at all yet, just sync) and best published transition plans.

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

#110

Post by tracker1 »

saljam wrote: post #94
Confusion wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.

I'd love to give The Old Reader a try... but when signing in through google, they seem to want "Manage My Contacts" permission.. there is no legitimate reason for needing to see my contacts to sign up. I'm pretty mindful of Android app permissions as well.
Post reply on HN