Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

Yes, Bazqux.

https://bazqux.com

I've tried all the results of the diaspora of Google Reader and Bazqux is by far the best solution for pure RSS reading. It has a lightning fast super-clean web UI, updates very quickly, has a completely clean interface, and costs $9/year. Well worth it.

They offer a free trial if you want to try it out. I think it lasts 14 days.

Also it works with all the various RSS reader mobile apps; Press, Greader, Reeder, and Mr. Reader.

It does have a terrible name, though.

(Note: I don't get anything for this admittedly glowing endorsement. I'm just a satisfied customer.)

Yes, Thunderbird. Offline access and having it together with my mail work for me.

I'll be watching these answers with interest. I used Vienna for a long time, then switched to Google Reader by way of Gruml. Hard to believe it's been over a year, but I pretty much stopped using RSS the day Reader died. (My Firefox session still has a HN tab with the "Google Reader is dead" story.) I've mainly been reading Ars Technica and Hacker News ever since, occasionally slumming it on Daring Fireball when I get bored.

NewsBlur is awesome, it's supported by a number of frontends (including Reeder) and has a very capable web app and a nice Android app. I've also used the iOS app from time to time, and new features on all of these are still rolling in from time to time.

The dev is responsive on Twitter (just today we debugged some issues) and the entire thing (including both iOS and Android apps!) is open source, so if they decide to discontinue it you could stand up your own local copy.

Hopefully all the premium members make it a little less likely that that'll happen.

My own invention, because I wanted to live in my browser tabs and not learn a new UI: http://github.com/akkartik/spew. Unfortunately I haven't found the fortitude to deal with mozilla's review process.