FWIW, I started a vague attempt to round up the alternatives: https://github.com/smithbr/rss-readers-list
Also https://github.com/glynnbird/birdreader , a nodejs based open source project.
Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the source of that $5/month claim? It's not on Reeder's site or twitter - is there another place that's come out? Not calling your statement into question or anything, just very disappointed to find that out...
Reeder is replacing syncing to Google Reader with Synching to Feedbin, which costs $2 per month The complaint about iPhone is also only short term, since the team is working on adapting the other apps to use Feedbin as well before the shutdown date. I think Feedbin was $5 per month and have discounted the price because of all the refugees being anticipated. In short, OP can continue what he was previously doing, only…
I have a bad feeling about the future of iPad/OSX Reeder. It's a shame, because they are excellent applications, but I'm actively investigating alternatives. rss2imap, in particular.
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Complain? We had options to change the intensity or use amber/black or white/black. No one in the day would have used intense green characters for a whole shift, it would have "burned" the CRT.
Er? There were metric-f'tons of green-phosphor terminals in use "back in the day", and I don't recall anybody ever adjusting them to reduce brightess... I'm not even sure if most them were even capable of easy adjustment. E.g., the green model of the H19/Z19 (super popular), various IBM synchronous terminals (the ones I remember from the system/34 had a particularly saturated green phosphor), the later H29 (a very pl…
If I recall correctly, you could adjust the brightness on the VT 100 series through one of the setup modes. The VT200 had choices other than green. The TRS-80 Model 4 had white and I used a 4p as a terminal to remote mainframes and minis. The Xerox 820 was white. Most of the early Apple/IBM PC monochromes were green, but there were some really nice amber third party monitors.
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What about something as simple as reusing IMAP for RSS?
That... actually sounds like a fantastic idea. One folder per feed, you could read your feeds with your email client. Interesting...
That's how I view some rss feeds via thunderbird:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics
Edit: Also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939742
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#235I appreciate his position but I have trouble taking advice on UI from somebody whose blog is eye-burning neon green text on a black background and has been since 1995. We know you're l33t, Jamie, you are a living legend. Can I get a readable color scheme already?
> Can I get a readable color scheme already? Yes. In your OWN blog. This one is retro styling for the intended audience, and we won't have it any other way. "Eye-burning"? Maybe lower your brightness? I have -3.00 diopters myopia and can read it just fine. Not to mention people worked for 15+ hours on green on black displays and you didn't see them complaining -- and that was with phosphor displays, with an electron…
"didn't see them complaining"? Here in Europe, laws were passed, in most countries, forcing employers to pay for eyeglasses and regular visits, because people were literally going blind.
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> I leave thousands of things left unread, and yet google reader makes it quite easy to keep up to date with whatever I feel like reading at the moment, without getting bogged down by all the stuff I don't want to read. It lets me categorize stuff hierarchically, and then drill down to what I want to look at, and maintains unread counts for each level, easily visible all at once. It's easy to see what categories/subc…
If Google were smart, they'd open-source Reader and let the people who love it maintain and run it (It's probably much too dependent on their architecture for this to actually be a viable option).
Ignoring the dependence on architecture; who's going to pay for the servers that are needed to run Reader? They don't run off love last I checked.
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#237> I have no interest in reading my feeds through > a web site (no more than I would tolerate reading > my email that way, like an *animal*). I haven't laughed that hard at something I read in a blog post so far this year. And I agree wholeheartedly. Who gives a shit about Google Reader the website? (Apparently, a whole lot of people... but not me.) I only care about the syncing. Like Zawinski, I want a fast, awesome,…
I am the founder of http://www.feedsapi.org and this might be an option for what you are trying to achieve. It is not a typical rss reader but more a full text RSS to email service, this feature should allow you to read and organize your RSS news from any email client and any device, it syncs with all platforms as well. Like you already said, such a service can't be free but the pricing is fair and comes with a free trial...feedback welcome, please let me know if it fits yous needs
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We learned a lesson that you can't rely on free services like Reader because they likely will eventually be shut down. All Google services are likely to be shut down. Being paid or not doesn't seem to make nearly as big a difference as you seem to think; see my analysis of the topic: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
Your linked analysis does not seem to support the conclusion you make in the above post that " All Google services are likely to be shut down".
What population do you think I was sampling from, exactly? And your captiousness is not contributing to the discussion, which was to point out that the subscription/profit variable is only weakly correlated with being shut down, contrary to claims that free services are uniquely vulnerable.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about something as simple as reusing IMAP for RSS?
That... actually sounds like a fantastic idea. One folder per feed, you could read your feeds with your email client. Interesting...
Stavros, that's exactly what we do at http://www.feedsapi.org , we make it simple for our users to read their full text rss feeds from the comfort or ANY email client and we also delivr those in realtime (under 60 seconds).
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I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely slow phosphor trailing effect, it could be added with js. I was great that you were able to read text from monitor about 5 seconds after powering it off. - After quick Googling, I couldn't find pre-existing javascript to do it. It would be nice to make one.
It might be nice to replicate the 8 x 8 pixels (on a 640 x 200 screen) of the CGA 80 x 25 characters text mode.
I was thinking the same thing. The text is way too sharp, so it's rather anachronistic to see the right color scheme with modern fonts. There has to be a slightly pixelated font out there, based on the pixel pattern of the green CRTs. Of course, it wouldn't be practical on the blog, but it would look cool on his home page (jwz.org).
Just for the record, all the people complaining about jwz's green text have no idea what they're talking about. It might be old-fashioned and out of style, but it's totally readable. There are way worse websites, even among designers who should know better. What's funny is that it never fails that someone criticizes the green color, and says something about not taking the content seriously, every time jwz's posts get hackernewsed.