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Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

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Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

#12
I switched to following Twitter accounts from the websites I subscribed to. It isn't as nice since I'm not incentivized into clicking the whole story (as I would oftentimes read the body anyway in Google Reader), but it fits into my "procrastination flow" and allows me to get related comments from Twitter at the same time as the story.

Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

#14

I haven't switched yet. What I would like to have is the reader that is basically the same as the old good Google Reader: - be web based - be cross platform (so I can use it on phone and desktop) - be light on network and fast to load - have simple design - should have folders - sort by oldest - mark all as read (in the folder) - be optimized for text, not pictures and that's pretty much all. What it shouldn't have i…

I've tried quite a few and am now on NewsBlur. It's not perfect but it's the closest I've seen to your list (which was also my list of priorities too).

Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

#15
Newsblur, I'm not overly happy or anything, but it works.

What I'd really like is some kind of RSStalking with heavily filtered social networking built in.

I've unfollowed a multitude of feeds since switching to newsblur though. I think it might be because of the face that it's harder to categorize the feeds in newsblur and I've started reading feed by feed. The ones with a couple of posts that I don't want to read quickly get unfollowed.

Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

#19
I started to switch everything (cloud stuff, Android) to open source that I can host myself in case I need to in the future.

I've switched to Owncloud, hosted at Hetzner. It was really easy to install and does pretty much everything I want (RSS reader, Dropbox clone, contacts, calender, Google Music clone).

I tried Newsblur, but the interface was too complicated for my taste and the Android app was not very stable.

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