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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by kylec »

jfb wrote: post #6

I use Reeder [1], backed by Feed Wrangler [2]. I have a few hundred feeds, many of which rarely update. I find it an invaluable way to keep up with interesting and important news; I use RSS the way many people use Twitter, apparently. [1] http://reederapp.com [2] https://feedwrangler.net/welcome.html

I use Reeder too, backed by Fever. With what happened to Google Reader, the fact that Fever is self-hosted and can never go away is a big advantage for me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by vzjrz »

I've actually really gotten into keeping track of my youtube subscriptions and the only real reliable way I found was to use rss. Because of privacy concerns I've never really used an online rss reader but I have tried a few of the offline clients. I definitely recommend people check out http://quiterss.org/ if they're looking for a new offline rss reader.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by luxbock »

I didn't use a RSS reader before Google Reader shutdown, and it was actually cries over the event that made me feel like I was missing out on something. Now I'm a happy user of Newsblur and can indeed concur that I was missing out. One man's tragedy is another mans fortune I guess :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by profsnuggles »

pionar wrote: post #13

For about a year (I think, whenever Google Reader shut down), I just stopped using them. I relied on sites like Hacker News to get updates (along with Twitter). I found recently, though, that it was not giving me all the things I thought were relevant to me (especially in the .NET world, where I work). So, recently, I started using The Old Reader[0]. It's nice and clean, and unobtrusive. It's not slick, but that does…

I'm not sure if you are joking around or not... but http://www.newsbeuter.org/

http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/i_want_the_mutt_of_feed_reader...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by marbletiles »

I use Bazqux, which is absolutely superb:

* Rock-solid, I haven't seen an outage

* Impressively fast (Reeder updates from it much faster than it ever did with Google Reader: I can get all my feeds in one Tube stop's worth of wifi)

* Has good features like filtering (goodbye "latest podcast" spam) and highlighting (only see certain posts from high-volume feeds

* Great keyboard UI on the web.

Can't recommend it enough. I understand it also has an interesting tech stack behind it too.

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