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Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by jobigoud »

cloudmaster wrote: post #45

Interestingly, the guy who wrote NetNewsWire says Dropbox and RSS readers can't work together: http://inessential.com/2011/10/25/why_just_store_the_app_dat...

It might not work for all scenarios, but it can work.

At some point I used RSSBandit (Open source desktop RSS reader for Windows), and I set up its %appdata% directory to be a subdirectory in the Dropbox folder. This can be done by modifying one of the config.xml files in the program's files. It worked. The whole state of the application was shared between computers.

Desktop app, synchronization between home and work, that was all I needed.

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by carlio »

1123581321 wrote: post #73
snogglethorpe wrote: post #46

I 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…

Yoleo has been wonderful for me. I've been recommending it to everybody.

I found it to be awful. It's so slow. I presume this is an artefact of using it from Europe, and the developers not taking latency into account.

I'm willing to overlook the bugs such as the same item appearing more than once in a feed (it's quite new), but the incredible slowness of it make it unusable for me.

For example, I loaded it before writing this comment, and as of this point, it still hasn't finished loading. I just get a spinny box and 'Loading...'

I also know from experience that if you click on something else, such as a folder, it won't override what it's currently loading, so the state of the UI will get out of sync.

You also can't read a list of items, you have to read one by one, incurring yet another AJAXy-load which doesn't necessarily ever respond, thus leaving in you in Loading... limbo.

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by dylangs1030 »

sgt wrote: post #94
pbsdp wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jwz's blog is't a product, doesn't exist to sell a product, or to sell jwz as a product -- which is why his ugly green color scheme is fantastic. His blog's color scheme also has no bearing on evaluating actual products' UX.

False, jwz is selling himself on this blog. He's addicted to the attention, very much like a heroin addict.

That's really, really uncalled for.

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by jvm »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #46

I 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…

I shared a lot of your issues, and I have to say ridly[1] has really been doing it for me. They did the hierarchy really well IMO.

[1] http://www.ridly.net/

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by ivank »

If you want the cached feed data from Reader preserved, ArchiveTeam is still collecting OPMLs:

http://allyourfeed.ludios.org:8080/

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader

We've saved about 30M feeds (6TB gzip'ed text) so far, and ~44K unique feeds from a few hundred uploaded OPMLs that we didn't find in the billion of URLs we've crawled.

We're also looking for

(1) massive URL lists we can grep, in case you have access to one

(2) query lists of just about anything that we can use to search for feeds using Reader's Feed Directory.

(3) some assistance in writing a few crawlers to discover more URLs on specific sites

(I'll try this submit this to the homepage tomorrow as well.)

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by gaelian »

carlio wrote: post #102
1123581321 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yoleo has been wonderful for me. I've been recommending it to everybody.

I found it to be awful. It's so slow. I presume this is an artefact of using it from Europe, and the developers not taking latency into account. I'm willing to overlook the bugs such as the same item appearing more than once in a feed (it's quite new), but the incredible slowness of it make it unusable for me. For example, I loaded it before writing this comment, and as of this point, it still hasn't finished loading…

That's interesting. I'm using it from Australia and it seems acceptably fast for me. I don't have a huge number of feeds, maybe this makes the difference.

Did you contact the developer? She seems quite eager to help.

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