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

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Post by jfb »

alsetmusic wrote: post #86
kylec wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have a license for Fever, but it lost its sparkle for me due to slower sync. I could fall back to it if needed, but I use FeedBin right now. The period between when Reeder lost Google Reader and when it gained new sync options temporarily killed RSS for me, as every other app I tested just made me wish for Reeder. It's one of my favorite apps of all time.

I am hoping that the work that was put in to make Reeder backend agnostic would be sufficient to survive another RSS aggregation service extinction event.

Of the applications I pay for on my Mac, Reeder is my favorite, with 1Password close second.

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

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Post by edavis »

Yes. RSS is still primarily how I get my news.

As for how, I built my own reader: https://github.com/edavis/river

It generates a roughly reverse chronological "river of news" (http://rsshub.org/feeds/) via a config file I host on Dropbox (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19853263/Feeds/feeds.txt).

If I may brag, I'm pretty damn happy with how it turned out.

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

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Post by vshabanov »

delecti wrote: post #85
vshabanov wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What feature was removed? I'm a developer of BazQux Reader and can't remember that I removed any major feature.

Essentially when looking at the list of feed items there was no longer a direct link to the articles without expanding the entries.

In list view it's possible to click on the article time. There is also old list view mode (before I've changed it to Google Reader-like one). It's in settings => List view => Normal. It has clickable article subject.

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

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Post by wizawuza »

hyperpape wrote: post #43

Feedly. I find it has some obnoxious bugs, but I'm too lazy to investigate alternatives. I get news from Twitter first, though. Feedly is something I check later in the day, or not even once a day.

Ditto.. feedly, it's not perfect, but it's good enough. Very similar keyboard shortcuts as google reader.
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