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O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by commentzorro »

James_Owens_7 wrote: post #14
interfixus wrote: post #11

There are decent readers out there. Liferea or Thunderbird will do in a pinch, and much as I hate to admit it, Netvibes is actually superb. The tragedy isn't some Google tool being retired, the tragedy is the way feeds are slowly disappearing. It's a slow and creeping death, but it's a death. More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with some twitterish Facebook nonsense. [edit: typo]

I usually don't visit websites that don't have RSS and tell that to the website owners. You should do the same. How else will they know that people care about feeds?

Unfortunately, people who come to a website via RSS almost universally have ad blockers turned on and usually are not site sticky. Maybe not the best group to attract to your site?

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by dsr_ »

adrianN wrote: post #21
interfixus wrote: post #11

There are decent readers out there. Liferea or Thunderbird will do in a pinch, and much as I hate to admit it, Netvibes is actually superb. The tragedy isn't some Google tool being retired, the tragedy is the way feeds are slowly disappearing. It's a slow and creeping death, but it's a death. More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with some twitterish Facebook nonsense. [edit: typo]

Twitter used to provide an RSS feed, that's gone too.

If you google "twitter rss" you will discover four sites that will do that for you as a free service and a node program that will do the conversion for you as well... on the first page of results, anyway.

I switched from Reader to TT-RSS. Now there's no fear that anyone will start analyzing my subscription list, send me personalized ads or suddenly stop serving me.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by thomasahle »

WA wrote: post #32
interfixus wrote: post #11

There are decent readers out there. Liferea or Thunderbird will do in a pinch, and much as I hate to admit it, Netvibes is actually superb. The tragedy isn't some Google tool being retired, the tragedy is the way feeds are slowly disappearing. It's a slow and creeping death, but it's a death. More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with some twitterish Facebook nonsense. [edit: typo]

You meant: More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with their stupid 'sign up via email to receive updates' nonsense.

Sounds like you should be able to make an adaptor for these?

That would be a nice service. You get an email address, which you use to sign up to news, and the service converts the most promising links in the emails into rss.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

#45

Post by thomasahle »

janvdberg wrote: post #3

I've been using http://theoldreader.com ever since. As the name implies, it does a pretty good job of mimicking Google Reader.

Just read the features of the pro version: "1 year of post storage, up to 1000 posts per feed"

I totally forgot Google Reader would store feeds forever, so you could search back in time. That was actually an amazing feature.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by gsam »

I think the thing that bothers me most about Feedly is paid-search. Sure, I don't mind if you limit advanced searches to paid users, but when I'm trying to do a simple search for something I know exists in the same feed (and saw like last week), why is that so ridiculous?

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by interfixus »

commentzorro wrote: post #41
James_Owens_7 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I usually don't visit websites that don't have RSS and tell that to the website owners. You should do the same. How else will they know that people care about feeds?

Unfortunately, people who come to a website via RSS almost universally have ad blockers turned on and usually are not site sticky. Maybe not the best group to attract to your site?

A discerning, technologically literate audience who never heard the term 'site sticky' before? No, you're right, no use for those.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by WA »

thomasahle wrote: post #44
WA wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You meant: More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with their stupid 'sign up via email to receive updates' nonsense.

Sounds like you should be able to make an adaptor for these? That would be a nice service. You get an email address, which you use to sign up to news, and the service converts the most promising links in the emails into rss.

Good idea, but requires a lot of manual work. Because I suspect that you don't only receive updates, but also some salesy stuff. Might be easier to write a crawler for blogs or websites that don't offer RSS.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by adrianN »

dsr_ wrote: post #43
adrianN wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter used to provide an RSS feed, that's gone too.

If you google "twitter rss" you will discover four sites that will do that for you as a free service and a node program that will do the conversion for you as well... on the first page of results, anyway. I switched from Reader to TT-RSS. Now there's no fear that anyone will start analyzing my subscription list, send me personalized ads or suddenly stop serving me.

I think there is a qualitative difference between a company officially supporting an open standard, vs the availability of third party tools that translate from whatever the company chooses to produce to the open standard.

Re: O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

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Post by pantulis »

vardhanw wrote: post #16
xaduha wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://digg.com/reader does the job for me. It's probably even better than Google Reader was.

http://www.inoreader.com/ works for me as it gives a minimalist list view and also has a decent android app.

This. Inoreader's UI reminds me a lot of goold old Bloglines!
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