I would rather pay a monthly/yearly fee.
Apparently you didn't read the article. Or the first sentence.
"feedly pro will be generally available this fall for $5 per month (or $45 per year)."
Feedly Pro
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Re: Feedly Pro
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only 5,000 lifetime accounts. Tiny in comparison to the 12 million+ users they have. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/19/feedly-launches-sta...
Will they even last 20 months at which point lifetime account becomes advantageous? The Old Reader sure didn't.
The Old Reader didn't last because they didn't have a business model.
Re: Feedly Pro
#53Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.
Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all. I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.
Personally, think we should encourage an ecosystem where https is a given, rather than feature. I would prefer that companies saw this as part-and-parcel with being a responsible service provider.
FWIW, I'm a big fan of Feedly, and have upgraded to Pro.
Re: Feedly Pro
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all. I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.
Personally, think we should encourage an ecosystem where https is a given, rather than feature. I would prefer that companies saw this as part-and-parcel with being a responsible service provider. FWIW, I'm a big fan of Feedly, and have upgraded to Pro.
Let's tell Heroku to stop charging for the SSL endpoint.
Re: Feedly Pro
#55If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone. Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088 )
> Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it. Is it really that expensive for them to run? Last time I heard it was a a minuscule amount per request, and peanuts for the certificate itself.
Does $5/month sound a lot for a product/service from a real business? How much do you charge for your product/service?
Re: Feedly Pro
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it. Is it really that expensive for them to run? Last time I heard it was a a minuscule amount per request, and peanuts for the certificate itself.
Does $5/month sound a lot for a product/service from a real business? How much do you charge for your product/service?
As a user, I know that a lot of "just $5 a month" services add up quite quickly, especially if they're not tools you use every day or as part of a workflow.
Re: Feedly Pro
#57That's great and all, but my RSS Service has SSL by default, no support queue, and is only $2/month or $16/year. Everyone is a user, and everyone is treated the same. No ads, ever.
Re: Feedly Pro
#58Since Google Reader went down, I've found I waste less time. I used to use Reeder as my front-end, but they've been slow to update their desktop app. I realize I'm "missing" things I used to keep up to date on, but the net gain is a lot more time I used to spend consuming what I suppose was superfluous content. For me - it's been kind of a nice change.
I had the same experience when I stopped using Opera and didn't have the RSS reader anymore. I do miss reading webcomics regularly, but the productivity gain is nice.
Re: Feedly Pro
#59Honest question: why do people pay for "pro" RSS services? There are enough out there that I don't feel I would ever need to - I was using oldreader until they shut it down to everyone and now use digg reader - is there specific functionality I'm missing out on by not using these premium services? There's always the whole adage of if it's free then you could lose it, but with the amount of readers out there it seems like I could hop to and from services.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Security? Where do you see security issues outside of login data (which is already over HTTPS)? This seems like a privacy feature (something not necessarily everyone cares about when it comes to their feedreading), not security.
Don't want the NSA reading my I can haz cheezburger feed
They've got the certificates so they'll see your lolcats either way.