Its high time to try the new Visually rich RSS reader http://goo.gl/r861h .
Google Reader Alternatives
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#12I 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 o…
I love Fever, and just switched to it. I included it on my own roundup at Web.AppStorm: http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-d.... I think people don't mention self-hosted options as much because most people would immediately think it was too much trouble to run their own service.
For someone hosting their own site already, though, it's incredibly simple to host something like this yourself. Surprising more people don't.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I pay £10/year for my VPS, I think I spend more on domains. There are many cheap boxes[1] available out there for exactly this kind of purpose.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's because running things on a server is expensive.
I pay £10/year for my VPS, I think I spend more on domains. There are many cheap boxes[1] available out there for exactly this kind of purpose. [1]: http://www.lowendbox.com/
Yes, but my time is much, much more expensive. I can't spend hours installing and configuring that stuff, especially when exporting my feeds is easy and fast.
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#15Its high time to try the new Visually rich RSS reader http://goo.gl/r861h .
Visually rich is precisely what I don't want from an RSS reader. Looking at that feed, my eyes bounce all over the place trying to parse the content I'm interested in - the headlines. I'd rather have a vertical, textual list that I can quickly scan. It's boring, but that's the nature of the medium.
This is one of the reasons I've never tried Pulse, but at least that lines the content up for easier scanning.
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#16What 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.
looking for a simple alternative I found http://bazqux.com/ . You do have to pay for it (That was one of my requirements - that might be a barrier for some)
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#17I've started using http://selfoss.aditu.de/. It is written in php with a mysql or sqlite database. It works great and with some tweaks from vince(https://github.com/vincebusam/selfoss) it works even better.
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#18I 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 o…
I tried it and found it quite reasonable, even running it from my desktop. Is it as fast as Google Reader? Not quite, but it's not slow enough to be annoying, and certainly not "incredibly slow". Much easier to install than Newsblur.
Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin, not a developer.
AMD 2 core 5600+, 8GB, one spinning iron disk with an SSD cache via flashcache, Debian stable, Postgres and Apache and PHP as Debian provides. Really nothing fancy.
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#19Can anyone point to a full-fledged review of The Old Reader? I could only find first impressions by googling around for a bit.
I've been using it for a few days, but I can only comment on how they present the feeds, since I don't use the social features at all. It's pretty decent, there is no frills and pretty straightforward. If you want an RSS reader with a simple interface, and doesn't impose anything on you, this should be suitable for you.
But, there are two huge things that are a turn-off for me. First, I can't set the default homepage to be where all my subscription feeds' items are aggregated. So you will be left with the dashboard page when you open The Old Reader. Second, the feeds' items are not sorted in the order they were created or posted by default, but what irks me is I can't find any options so that it will be sorted according to the dates. I don't know if both of these things are something they will fix or add in the future, so I'm still jumping back and forth between this and Feedly. If they are not planning to address both of those caveats in the future, and Feedly delivers their promise on the seamless migration when Google Reader dies. Then I'll probably opt for Feedly.
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#20Can anyone point to a full-fledged review of The Old Reader? I could only find first impressions by googling around for a bit.
You use it and you know. I gave them my Google credentials yesterday, I uploaded my OPML as well. The website is extremely slow (which is understood). The OPML is waiting in the queue somewhere. I dropped few RSS feeds to test. Site runs slow.
I logged in this morning, saw HN news from 10 hours ago sitting at the top. I have decided to move on.
I am simultaneously testing local RSS feed reader as well (quiet-rss). Notwithstanding the syncing problem between multiple computers, it at least gives me the very latest news.