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I highly recommend Inoreader. It works almost exactly like Google Reader, but with extra enhancements like filtering feeds and following Twitter accounts as feeds.
Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. edit: > Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything. That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough. That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reade…
I don't understand your comparison. The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app? But every other webbased reader had the same advantage, and since Google Reader's demise, we got an explosion of amazing readers, from free over self-hosted to paid.
> The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app?
Over regular client readers, yes.
Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. edit: > Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything. That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough. That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reade…
> Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. So RSS wins again.
The problem with RSS is that most feeds treat all items the same so the same prominence is attached to a nuclear strike on New York as is attached to a child scraping its knee.
Twitter is where I follow a specific event. Facebook is where I stumble across bullshit. RSS is where I read news, stories, and technical updates. RSS is how I come here~
Likewise.
I use a homegrown RSS reader that I host at http://www.weegeeks.com
It's not great and it's not pretty but it does the job.