jwz is right. His criticism is remarkably close to my observations regarding both Reeder and Feedly. I am also worried that I won't be able to use Reeder anymore, and try as I might, I can't force myself to use Feedly for any extended period of time.
Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
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#82I've tried just about all of them and as July 1 approaches I'm definitely getting anxious that I haven't found an RSS aggregator "home" just yet. I set up Tiny Tiny RSS on a Red Hat Openshift gear and it actually seems to work quite well. My main problem with it is that it doesn't seem to work in anything other than Safari. The mobile options for Tiny Tiny RSS looks like it's going to take some legwork to set up so t…
I had no problem setting up YATTRSSC as my mobile client on my iPhone. All I did was check the enable API checkbox in preferences and I was good to go. It’s a PhoneGap app so feels slow and clunky but since I do most of my reading on my computer I tolerate it.
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#83I don't particularly like the way Feedly does things either, but I can maintain that opinion without a lot of vitriol.
While it's great that all these new projects have been springing up, I didn't want to entrust my feed reading so something that has been written at the eleventh hour, so have only been looking at options that have been around for a while. (Also, ruling out ones without an Android app, which may or may not be a consideration for others.)
Tried TinyRSS which was okay. If I had a better server to run it on it probably would have done the job for me (long story that is probably not germane.)
I ended up going with Newsblur. It has an interface similar in behaviour to Reader which is what I like, and although it does have some rough edges it's getting the job done and is established. I figured I'd spring the $24 for a year, and then see what the landscape looks like then.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Google makes the decision that I'm not worth much, I'm tempted to reciprocate. DuckDuckGo is already becoming habit, and I'm pretty close to convincing others in my company that we need to switch off of Google Apps, because Google hides important messages from me and doesn't provide support [1]. What else does Google do? Drive? Dropbox is better. Plus? Haha. Google is putting all their effort behind things they'…
You can't hand-wave away the fact that Gmail, Docs, and Maps are best-in-class.
Of course I can, particularly if they are best-in-class in a class that is not relevant to me. I'm not going to use web apps for email or for office documents, except for edge cases. And that is the case for most people in the world, web apps are a nicety, but not the primary use case.
Maps, as I said, are different.
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#85Is it me or has Feedly made it harder to switch the interface to titles only recently?
I change to that, but it seems to change back after a while. It's very annoying.
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#86Not many people seem that interested in my approach to solving the feed reading problem. I run my own backend and frontend and just let it fetch things for me. Then I periodically check in and flip through to see what's new. If I wind up on some new platform on which the web frontend doesn't make sense, I'll write a native one which speaks the same simple "POST in, AJAX out" language. No big thing. I set up a Kicksta…
Have you heard of Newsblur? Sounds exactly like what you're describing. API: http://www.newsblur.com/api Open Source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur Also, cheers for not including a link to your Kickstarter.
From her profile http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2000892040/fred-feed-rea...
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
The closest replacement is The Old Reader - unfortunately they seem to having problems with feed update speed (probably due to load)
Yup, that was the only one that I tried that really fit my workflow.
I'm using The Old Reader. I would have recommended it to him but he wants something with iPhone/iPad support too.
They aren't charging anything, maybe they should make an app...
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#88It is not easy to take any criticism of the Feedly UI seriously from someone whose website is green-on-black. On the other hand, it is true that they have gone a little crazy with "innovations". But as long as they have an API, who cares.
He's criticizing user experience, not the color scheme.
User experience on his website is just fine.
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#89I don't really share most of jwz's specific complaints, but I've been trying to use feedly, and boy .... it's really hard to believe so many people are recommending this as a general Google reader replacement. Besides its somewhat quirky UI, the main problem I have with feedly is that it seems predicated on the assumption that you will more or less read through all articles, one by one, in order, and finish them. Tha…
Google reader had an amazing dedicated mobile phone app that shipped with Android on the Nexus 4. It was perfect.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, that was the only one that I tried that really fit my workflow.
I'm using The Old Reader. I would have recommended it to him but he wants something with iPhone/iPad support too. They aren't charging anything, maybe they should make an app...
They are currently in the process of publishing an API, some select developers already have access to it according to their latest blog so an iOS app is in the coming...