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Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

#14
Netvibes! I've used Netvibes for many years and love it. I'm honestly quite surprised it's not more popular in the hacker community. It's quite tweakable and flexible.

One major drawback: They still have no native mobile apps and a pretty poor mobile web offering.

Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

#17
After trying out a few of the alternatives pre- and post-shutdown, I ended up subscribing to Feed Wrangler mainly because it integrated well with reeder on my iphone. I also liked the fact that the website isn't overdesigned or confusing, although the two features it sorely needs are (i) sorting preferences and (ii) the ability to open tabs in the background in chrome (I had a chrome extension that did this for google reader).

Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

#19
I use Feedly, but I really dislike it. I, almost overnight, transitioned from reading blogs for most of my content, to using HackerNews and Reddit for most reading. I might check my Feedly account once every week or two as opposed to multiple times a day with Reader. The things I liked about Reader, that it was minimal but what it did (find RSS feeds given a URL, catalogue what I have read, fetch new posts, and be reasonable on a mobile device) it did very well, are just not present in Feedly.
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