Google Reader Alternatives
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#2Can anyone point to a full-fledged review of The Old Reader?
I could only find first impressions by googling around for a bit.
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#3I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous.
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#4I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous. https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Ti…
> Honorable mentions this week go out to TinyTinyRSS, a self-hosted RSS reading app that allows you to grab your feeds on any system, as long as you have a web host and you're comfortable installing and setting it up. The process actually isn't that difficult, and full disclosure, I'm thinking about doing this myself. Since there's a Tiny Tiny RSS Android client to go with it, it's worth a look. Plus, it's free and open source, and at the end of the day you own your feeds and your data, and it won't shut down on you.
That said, I tried it and found it annoying to work with as well as incredibly slow. I paid for Newsblur and if they ever go down I'll jump into the relatively complicated installation process on my server.
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And of course there are other options: Fever [1], the hopefully soon finished News [2] app for ownCloud [3] and Newsblur [4] is open source as well.
[1] http://www.feedafever.com/
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#5I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous. https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Ti…
It's not of interest to HN because the only thing you can sell related to Tiny Tiny RSS is a server to run it on, and the server game is for chumps.
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#6I'm pretty happy with http://www.feedly.com/ so far. No brainer to import my feeds from reader, and pretty nice presentation. I'm actually happy now that I was forced into switching.
My biggest pain point was replacing Google Listen (on android for listening to my podcasts). Subscribing to a new podcast was as easy as adding a new feed to reader under the 'Listen Subscriptions' folder.
But I've replaced Listen with Pocket Casts and I'm happy with it so far. For more info, see http://www.vamonossoftware.com/2013/03/living-without-google...
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#7I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous. https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Ti…
It's not of interest to HN because the only thing you can sell related to Tiny Tiny RSS is a server to run it on, and the server game is for chumps.
No, it's because running things on a server is expensive.
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#8Can someone point out the features I've been missing all along by using a Desktop RSS reader?
Is it just synchronization or is there something else to it?
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#9Can someone point out the features I've been missing all along by using a Desktop RSS reader? Is it just synchronization or is there something else to it?
It's mostly about the synchronisation. For my use-case, I read articles in Google Reader during my lunch break at work. When I'm browsing at home later, on my own PC or iPad I don't want to have to wade through dozens of articles I've already read to find the new stuff.
I guess there's also the convenience of access to the web app pretty much anywhere, but that's secondary (to me).
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#10What I find most appealing about Google Reader is the simplicity of the interface. I just want to see a list of the sites I'm following, an indicator when new content is available, a summary of the content, and the ability to view the full content. That's it. Nothing flashy, nothing social, just the Emacs (or even vi) of RSS readers.
Newsblur comes closest for me so far, but I suspect I'll end up rolling my own.