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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?

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Post by drharris »

nickmain wrote: post #66
drharris wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".

What is their monetization strategy ?

Donation. It's not a business, so much as a group of geeks who wanted to bring back the heyday of GR. You can Flattr or bitcoin I think, and they've managed to keep a steady influx of donations thus far. By definition, it's easy to maintain since the goal of the project is "no additional features". So, the main cost is server load, which these days is easy enough to manage.

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

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Post by drharris »

csense wrote: post #80

It's interesting that a lot of these seem to be hosted solutions. I'm surprised people aren't switching to self-hosted webapps or standalone desktop applications. Why aren't people more worried about these services shutting down, even with memories of Reader painfully current? I can sit back and watch people panic with smug superiority, since I never used Google Reader. I'm currently catching all of the blogosphere's…

How do you read feeds on 4 different devices without some type of synchronization with what you've read?

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

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Post by eccp »

Jean-Philipe wrote: post #58

liferea

I changed to Liferea too and it surprised me how little took me to get used to it. Also, on Ubuntu 12.04 you get the unread posts count in the launcher (61 items in this screenshot): http://imgur.com/YHDWrIC

Liferea has few issues but they are very minor (ocassional freeze) but it's fairly stable.

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

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Post by csense »

johncoltrane wrote: post #2

None. I've stopped using RSS completely. It was an awful time sink.

> It was an awful time sink.

That's because you were doing it wrong; you probably subscribed to spammy high-volume feeds.

Protip: Don't do that.

But if there are some high-volume feeds you absolutely must subscribe to, try only reading the headlines and then marking the entire folder as read.

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

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Post by csense »

levosmetalo wrote: post #6

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…

Why do you want it to be web-based?

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

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Post by csense »

drharris wrote: post #83
csense wrote: post #80

It's interesting that a lot of these seem to be hosted solutions. I'm surprised people aren't switching to self-hosted webapps or standalone desktop applications. Why aren't people more worried about these services shutting down, even with memories of Reader painfully current? I can sit back and watch people panic with smug superiority, since I never used Google Reader. I'm currently catching all of the blogosphere's…

How do you read feeds on 4 different devices without some type of synchronization with what you've read?

I only read my news on one device, partly to avoid this issue.

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

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Post by pelf »

drharris wrote: post #23

I started with Feedly, but realized there is no OPML export, which locks me in. This Reader situation taught me to not be locked in ever again. Plus, I'm not entirely convinced the transition from the Google backend is going to be smooth, and I don't care for the interface. The Chrome extension also runs in the background and keeps my LastPass authentications open, a huge, huge security risk. I have since switched to…

I've basically done the same thing, going through Feedly to The Old Reader (TOR). The only downside to TOR at the moment is it seems to take a while to update the feeds, forcing me to manually hit the refresh button on the feeds I read more frequently.
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