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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 rachelbythebay »

rdl wrote: post #108
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #93

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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.

http://fred.rachelbythebay.com/ - is that sufficiently dense? I came up with it after realizing I didn't want any of the left, top, or bottom gunk in Reader. All I do is flip, flip, flip. Just keep pushing right (or sometimes, left, if you catch something neat and want to go back!)...

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

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Post by toki »

rssident wrote: post #155
toki wrote: post #144

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i am surprised. rssident looks really simple and promising on my smartphone as a mobile page! can you give any background!? when did you start!? i like the one big feed directly on the start page. i like the the simple layout in my mobile browser. i don't need fancy sharing features. all i need is a simple webapp that shows me a condensed view of my subscriptions and opml import. if these things work there is also no…

I think I figured out the issue. Did you try to register with username toki.net? Apparently the validator on the username field doesn't like periods. I will fix that.

yeah and nope, toki.net was not my first but my third try.

i am somehow not able to login with two different browsers (opera mobile and chrome) to log in. only firefox worked.

my new account there is "toki1". but i havent been able to add feeds somehow. the input box does not to react when i click submit.

feel free to use me as test user. contact me via the mail i gave with my account data. i am rather busy today, but from tomorrow on i will have more time.... :)

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

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Post by rdl »

rachelbythebay wrote: post #161
rdl wrote: post #108

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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.

http://fred.rachelbythebay.com/ - is that sufficiently dense? I came up with it after realizing I didn't want any of the left, top, or bottom gunk in Reader. All I do is flip, flip, flip. Just keep pushing right (or sometimes, left, if you catch something neat and want to go back!)...

It's interesting, but I have ~200 feeds in 5 categories, and would like to be able to browse by:

1) see list of all feeds with unread counts (I don't see how to do that as a guest user)

2) click on a feed, see all articles in the feed (bold unread) (you sort of do this now, but indicating read v unread would be nice)

3) per-story, read in a dense but nicely-formatted way (Feedly does this great; yours is ok. Ideally be able to Instapaper too)

4) (optional) figure out which new articles in which feeds I care most about and "magic" those as well -- maybe using an interface like yours, or a "magazine" like feedly

I really have two modes of using RSS: reading as much as possible of those feeds, or wanting to be passively entertained. I'd potentially use two tools with a common backend.

I don't understand why someone doesn't do as close to a direct clone of Google Reader UI/UX as possible, and then clone Google Reader backend (e.g. the "Normandy" project).

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

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Post by mkr-hn »

pavs wrote: post #135
eurleif wrote: post #102

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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.

It was completely voluntary and managed by the producer through their AdSense account.

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

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Post by telebabbo »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #19
pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

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.

MatthewPhillips, you can disable that button, "Mini Toolbar", from this panel: http://www.feedly.com/home#preferences/mini%20toolbar

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

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Post by mkr-hn »

colbyh wrote: post #128
smsm42 wrote: post #115

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I tried that too. Currently there are 10000+ users in front of me in import queue. I hope they will be able to process it till July...

In the last two days only 500 people in front of me have left the queue. Feedly definitely gets point for their speed, but as others have stated the layout just isn't for me.

If you mean the goofy, information-poor magazine view, you can select the familiar-looking Titles view by clicking the gear icon over a feed.

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

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Post by Amfy »

rdl wrote: post #106
robgough wrote: post #79

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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.

Hm, anything more than $2-3/mo would be to much just for a reader access.

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

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Post by mkr-hn »

Heliosmaster wrote: post #104
pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

If you use just the shortcut in the browser, nothing is needed.

Feedly won't load without the extension.
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