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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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I tried feedly, but I'm not very used to it. I also tried newsblur, the website is very slow, the iphone app seems to be buggy. I'm waiting for digg now. Otherwise, I will build something myself.

Newsblur has gotten much faster in the last month or so and there was a major iOS app release. It's now actually pretty snappy.

Also, they used to offer only 12 RSS feeds for free. Now, they give you 64.

And they've also been improving their user interface.

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

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None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

Hey there, Yoleo's dev here :)

I've put in some performance improvements to the back-end. The multi-second delay you're mentioning? I know exactly what's causing that and I just have to put the fix in place. It should be insanely snappy within the next week or so.

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

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Yoleo works well for me. I had to try importing my subscriptions twice because the first time, even after a day, didn't take. The second time worked instantly, though, and the service has been fine since. I do wish there were a full-width listing of articles in summary mode, like Reader had.

"Headline mode" is on its way, give me about 10 days :)

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

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post #79

None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

More than 3k feeds... wow! I get swamped keeping up with < 100 feeds, as nothing predicts (well enough|at all) which articles I want to read, so I have to skim them all.

A lot of those feeds update infrequently. And there are a number of duplicates (a pain in Google Reader to administer) or the same site that migrated from blog platform to blog platform, but I declined to remove the old feed (primarily for search, though in the past few years, Google Reader search got nerfed to only retrieve from current year and a smattering of older items by an algorithm I ascertain could only be random or happenstance).

But the main gist is that I only read a small percentage of links. It is mostly a river I wade in, though, if I have the time, will go in-depth. It's why search is so important -- it's a "google custom search" method (yes, I know there is a CSE product in Google Labs, but it's even more flawed) that limits my queries to those sites I have pre-declared an interest in.

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

#125

None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

Hey there, Yoleo's dev here :) I've put in some performance improvements to the back-end. The multi-second delay you're mentioning? I know exactly what's causing that and I just have to put the fix in place. It should be insanely snappy within the next week or so.

Will give it another whirl :)

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

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post #97

None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

I'm guessing Feedly is only servicing your 3k feeds because it's still using GReaders back end.

It's a good question. I guess we shall discover if this is true come July 1. But Feedly is actually snappier than Google Reader in many respects -- i.e., popping into individual feed lists, UX responsiveness, etc.

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

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None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

You'd be a great user to have when doing stress testing :) Would you mind sharing your opml (if there's nothing sensitive or that you wouldn't want to share in there)? I'm one of the developers of lector, and I'm having trouble finding people with enough feeds to put some real load on our servers.

GR flaking out when I try to access settings today. Will export and share (nothing private) tonight.

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

#128

None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

You'd be a great user to have when doing stress testing :) Would you mind sharing your opml (if there's nothing sensitive or that you wouldn't want to share in there)? I'm one of the developers of lector, and I'm having trouble finding people with enough feeds to put some real load on our servers.

Or alternately, give me an account and I shall attempt importing and using…

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd be a great user to have when doing stress testing :) Would you mind sharing your opml (if there's nothing sensitive or that you wouldn't want to share in there)? I'm one of the developers of lector, and I'm having trouble finding people with enough feeds to put some real load on our servers.

GR flaking out when I try to access settings today. Will export and share (nothing private) tonight.

http://nauminous.net/gr/subscriptions.xml

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

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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…

check out http://nuesbyte.com/ as web/light/fast as you can, free, and all the features you want.
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