This is an alternative that duprisimgly never came up. But my.yahoo.com is a very simple and functional RSS aggregator. I moved to that.
Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
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Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#52Blogtrottr.
It sends you an email for every post. Combined with Gmail filters I open my Gmail RSS folder instead of a reader website/app.
It sounds bad, but I tried everything, and every single service fails at something, which makes it useless. Sometimes the android app doesnt work or can't be installed in my ancient phone, sometimes the website is unusable, sometimes the reader doesn't have enough crawling power and they completely ignore whole posts or don't update in days. So, until I find a reader with an app that is actually usable, emails are the way.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#53btw, the old reader ignored many posts for me, and only showed them when I clicked refresh on the feed. I don't know if they fixed that by now.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#54I 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…
You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".
There are some weird behaviour differences unfortunately. The most annoying one for me is that scrolling past an unread story marks it as read automatically... but overall, yes. It's basically closer to the original GR than anything else I've seen.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#55Probably aught to add an option for "None".
I bet there are plenty of folks like myself who had Reader set up for a bunch of feeds, but don't feel strongly enough about RSS to bother setting it up again someplace else.
I just quit using RSS (though I doubt I'd been into Reader in the last year anyway) when they took it away.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#56Feedly for me: keyboard navigation very close and display is nice and compact
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#57I 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…
"Of course, it should be free."
Alternatively, "Of course, I should pay a small amount of money so I have to worry considerably less about the possibility of someone pulling the plug on it leaving me in the same situation again."
Your mileage might vary but once a service is established as important to me I'm almost keen to pay money to support it.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#58liferea
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#59Other: Thunderbird. I tried newsblur (indeed, I paid for it) but the UI annoyed me too much.
Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
#60Vienna - desktop app for Mac
http://www.vienna-rss.org/