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I love offline clients, quite often I'm stuck in a remote location where 3G has yet to penetrate so I like to have a couple of hundred items to read which will sync when I reach connectivity again.
I need the RSS service to track what I've read across multiple devices and have the client support offline usage. Any recommendations?
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I just Fever ( http://www.feedafever.com/ ). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
PHP and MySQL, yuck!
One of the advantages that PHP has is that virtually any cheap web-host in the world can run it. It's not a bad choice to sell a self-hosted product in PHP because of this advantage.
I'm not a huge fan of PHP for many types of projects, but I don't see how it benefits anybody to reflexively hate on something just because of a technology choice.
I'm putting this out there in case anybody finds it useful. I made it years ago but never got around to promoting it. The idea was an online bookmarking app that tells you when the bookmarked pages have changed, and for technical reasons it eventually turned into a simple news feed reader.
It also supports drag and drop and for browsers with side bars (damn you Chrome!), it works... in the side bar.
I've moved onto other things but if you're really into it, get in touch and I'll try to move your data from Google Reader.
Bummer. I imagine there will be a few decent alternatives, but if the biggest game in RSS reader town is shutting down, how long will websites continue to provide and expose RSS feeds to the public?
What other syndication mechanism works, is cross platform, portable, provides rich media, and is open?
Why are they shutting it down? I mean heaps of people must still use it. I bet a shit load of people use for Google Alerts as well, lots of businesses. Far if it costed too much, i bet people would be happy to fork out $10 a year for it? I've been using it daily for the past 4 years, to be honest nothing comes that close to it, and most likely the majority of people who use RSS readers use Google Reader. Also now mos…
> Why are they shutting it down? Because they would rather that you use Google+. The writing was on the wall when they started disabling features a year or two ago.
Still he best way to read content on the web, really sad to see it go. Adding on to this: What he hell do I do with my starred items now, it's literally the best collection of content I have curated in my life and I reference it all the time. edit: petition to keep it open http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-don-t-kill-goo...
Google already killed reader in their hearths when they made the g+ update. Instead of neglecting it for years to come they did the right thing and let it go for good.
This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…
I think that's a testament to how functional your app is. The iPhone app, while not up with Reeder (the iPhone app), is still very solid.
I look forward to the redesign too. The beta site looks great!
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" now would be a great time to start building it." Now is too late. The right time to have started building it was 2-6 months ago. Now is the time to market an existing solution. Citing the great gretzky quote, the "puck" is already here.
You missed the beginning of the sentence: "the next one" = "it", not Google reader