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Can 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?
Can anyone point to a full-fledged review of The Old Reader? I could only find first impressions by googling around for a bit.
This is the reason they are shutting it down. How do you monetize something when the user never sees your content. I understand that, but it doesn't mean the internet didn't just get worse.
I'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 P…
Google Listen is Very Limit Podcast Player. After i Discovery beyondpod, i never use Lister aging. http://www.beyondpod.com/Android/ Beyondpod sync with Google Reader too. And i will miss this function.
What 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.
> Newsblur comes closest for me so far Newsblur is the opposite of what I want. I want consistent typography, and much less interface, and a google reader API compatible service so I can continue to use things like Reeder. Newsblur highlights everything but the text. I really hope the people behind Reeder build a backend and web frontend before Google Reader goes away.
What I miss from the keyboard shortcuts is the n/p and shift-n/p where you navigate without opening an item.
I'm currently ambivalent about the commenting/social part, but I can see it work and take off.
As long as the interface does what I want, I can ignore the fact that it's rather ugly, a bit odd here and there, and doesn't properly show the 'active' item. But I really think there should be a 'minimal' theme that emulates google reader's.
And, of course, it's currently a bit show. But I can forgive the guy for that :).