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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 aeth »

mintplant wrote: post #125
rdl wrote: post #105

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 somethin…

See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-use... (linked from the post) Tip #1: "A more condensed view"

A condensed list of titles... which opens to reveal a ridiculous waste of vertical space, including two rows for social media and, ironically, a massive title which can take up 2-3 lines.

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

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Post by rdl »

mintplant wrote: post #125
rdl wrote: post #105

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 somethin…

See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-use... (linked from the post) Tip #1: "A more condensed view"

I mainly meant the iOS app, and the per-story view -- there is a lot of whitespace. The iOS app doesn't seem to actually accept the more condensed view as a global default, either, and only sometimes accepts it when I set it within a given rss feed.

I also dislike the Chrome extension (vs. pure web-only).

OTOH, it is really pretty, so I'm thinking of using it for recreational use anyway. It's just not an ideal research replacement for google reader yet.

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

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Post by gwern »

lnanek2 wrote: post #21
Jleagle wrote: post #5

Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.

Why stick with dying app that will never see a new feature and which may make your data inaccessible at any time? I exported my data and will never see it again. Anything else and I might have tried to log in one day and suddenly hit the deadline. The odds of me ever entering hundreds of sites into any app of Google's again are also far lower now.

Has Google ever gone back on a publicly promised shutdown date and shut something down early?

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

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Post by pavs »

eurleif wrote: post #102
wyclif wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

There used to be adsense for RSS. Google discontinued it sometime last year I think.

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

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Post by fakeer »

I see a lot of users just going to every service mentioned by that blog or that blogger. Without any research. As '@nsns' says it's the searching phase.

There are services that are famous as of now, very famous. Not because those are best out there(or even better than average) but because they played good on social scene the day Google read out Reader's death sentence. Feedly, having used them, is certainly not a great service. It's a client that is everywhere. It's a good one(must be) I personally never liked it.

But at least they are handling the load better than others. NewsBlur looks like a slow clunky web app. There are few others like FeedHQ.org and 1kpl.us but none of them are still there.

Looks like Feedly is just hoarding users with a promise to be sth that at least they are not going to be - the 'holy grail' of RSS sync service - which is the void GR actually created. A clean and fast web app/server where our feeds can reside in the cloud. And all the blog posts out there are talked about just one thing - these clients; and users listened.

That is how they have these many numbers.

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

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Post by rssident »

grimman wrote: post #40
nsns wrote: post #10

I believe most users are currently in a "searching" phase, and have joined more than one alternative, so this sudden growth might be misleadding. That said, for now, Feedly is my favorite alternative, so good luck.

It's interesting to see how different people's opinions can be. Feedly, for me, was a headache wrapped in CSS. The whole thing actually made me ridiculously angry (yes, really, and I'm normally a veeery calm guy)... so for me the search continues. I'm glad it's not quite as difficult for other people to find a suitable replacement. :)

Try http://rssident.com

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

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Post by msg »

mintplant wrote: post #125
rdl wrote: post #105

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 somethin…

See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-use... (linked from the post) Tip #1: "A more condensed view"

The android app leaves a bit to be desired here as well. Not as customizable as the web view.

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

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Post by getoffmalawn »

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #59
maratd wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> or use something self-hosted Take a look at: http://www.feedafever.com Just installed it. Works just like Google Reader, with a few bonus features. I don't have to worry about being shut down anymore.

Until your favorite blogs realize that RSS is just a money sink and shut down their feeds, which is exactly what Google is subtly prophesying and no one seems to get.

I'm sorry, what? RSS is a money sink in what way? RSS is about as maintenance free as it gets.
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