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More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by Tyr42 »

tracker1 wrote: post #110
saljam wrote: post #94

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You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.

I'd love to give The Old Reader a try... but when signing in through google, they seem to want "Manage My Contacts" permission.. there is no legitimate reason for needing to see my contacts to sign up. I'm pretty mindful of Android app permissions as well.

I think they've replicated the social features of the old Greader, so they want your contacts so you can share with them.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by mkr-hn »

tux1968 wrote: post #152
getoffmalawn wrote: post #140

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I'm sorry, what? RSS is a money sink in what way? RSS is about as maintenance free as it gets.

Because it potentially diverts eyeballs away from your actual site. Not because of technology costs.

It's the best of a lot of worse options. Social media is a shouting match, and newsletters are either spam filtered or ignored. People don't want to ignore it, but email is just a bad way to follow a lot of things. RSS readers offer a nice, compact list of all the things you want to read.

I don't know what the click through rate is like on RSS feeds with a statistically useful subscriber count, but Google Reader says my feed has 11 subscribers, meaning those 3 people who came through on my last post are 27%. I don't get that kind of click through with hundreds of real people following my Twitter accounts, or thousands on G+. A million social media followers is meaningless if only 10,000 of them click your links, and any publisher with sense realizes that. Email is only slightly better: http://mailchimp.com/resources/research/email-marketing-benc...

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by mkr-hn »

stef25 wrote: post #164

Is there any way of turning off the "Featured" content at the top? This is like Facebook pushing content that I never asked for. Here it's right at the top too. Other than looks good.

Switch to a different view with the little gear icon at the top. I don't know about other views, but the Titles view doesn't have the featured articles thing. That said, Featured only shows posts from your own subscriptions within the folder, not from some shared collection or advertiser pushing.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by pavs »

mkr-hn wrote: post #166
pavs wrote: post #135

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There used to be adsense for RSS. Google discontinued it sometime last year I think.

It was completely voluntary and managed by the producer through their AdSense account.

Yeah, But adsense publishers share the money with google. Same way blogger (blogspot) does.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by overloaded »

I would love to see how Feedly is, but it's completely broken in Safari. It asks for approval via Google OAuth on every page load, and once it has approval it displays a login page, again.

There seem to be a number of issues surrounding this. Some people point to OAuth being the problem. Some people point to the Safari extension. One way or another, it's broken, and there's absolutely nothing on their Twitter, blog, Uservoice, or Get Satisfaction even indicates they're aware of the cloud of problems surrounding Safari usage.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by Ensorceled »

tempestn wrote: post #141
Ensorceled wrote: post #36

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Magic? Some of these complaints are idiotic. "Why does my RSS reader need access to the webpage to add the RSS feed for that webpage?"

What if you just want to use it as a reader and are happy with pasting in feed urls manually?

That’s a different, and very valid, complaint. I agree with you that that feature should exist.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by abraham »

tracker1 wrote: post #110
saljam wrote: post #94

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You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.

I'd love to give The Old Reader a try... but when signing in through google, they seem to want "Manage My Contacts" permission.. there is no legitimate reason for needing to see my contacts to sign up. I'm pretty mindful of Android app permissions as well.

When I was signing in, I removed the contacts scope from the auth URL and The Old Reader didn't appear to care that it couldn't access my contacts.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by jonnyscholes »

tommoor wrote: post #146
sbarre wrote: post #34

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You can turn that button off in preferences, it's really easy.

actually, as much as i love Feedly - it's pretty hard to find the preference to switch that off.

I agree - where on earth IS this mysterious option the internet so fondly speaks of?!

edit: nvm, its in the feedly preferences. Not Chromes. Awks.

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