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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?

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[Other] Bazqux - https://bazqux.com/

I continue to be amazed that Bazqux has gotten little to no press recognition. The UI is clean, simple, and an excellent match for the Google Reader UI, and it offers several different list view options (of which headline list is the only one _I_ need, but at least the options are there for those who are so interested. There's an API, and it's picking up some device app support (I use News+ on Android). The one poten…

I tried a lot of different readers prior to and after the reader shutdown, and Bazqux was the only one I found I could live with.

Very fast, has search, is consistently up, keeps the familiar UI and has no problem with my 1,000 item/day habit.

Worth the small expense.

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

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I think the Digg Reader is really quite nice. Was very snappy when I was trying it out and the UI is good. I like the ability to mix in popular stories without it taking over my own subscriptions. If I hadn't written my own already (Stringer) then I would be using Digg.

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

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I'm actually surprised with the lack of non-webapp RSS feed usage. RSS has been around for such a long time and people moved on from desktop applications to webapps?

Personally, I use Thunderbird and newsbeuter since I've used them for such a long time and old habits die hard. When Google Reader was relatively new, I tried switching, but it never stuck.

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

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Not yet, since i am planning to rewrite it from scratch. My first (current) implementation taught my how to use backbone.js, bootstrap, coffeescript and node-webkit to crank out a crossplatform desktop application. Now that i learned how that stuff works under the hood (my main reason to roll my own client), i am planning to build everything in a sane manner an then release it.

Alright, if or when you do release, could you let me know? My contact info is in my profile.

use goread.io

Code is on https://github.com/mjibson/goread

Looks just like the old google reader and works really well! ;)

Hope it works well for you!

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