what is concerning is that this decision could influence sites making their feeds available.
Twitter and G+ are not viable alternatives.
Google alerts to RSS were wonderful. I'm sure they will shutter alerts soon too.
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#573What the fuck. Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/ Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png
Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.
At least in Google Reader one can email articles, and it auto-suggests email addresses of your contacts. So Google Reader already has access to your Google Contacts.
Perhaps The Old Reader just does the same?
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When did you lower the number of enabled feeds to 12?
When he realized that the traffic would be too much, and money would probably pour: https://twitter.com/NewsBlur/status/312025565815255040
It's a move that makes sense sure.
But it irks me that a service I've been using for however long just one day decides to cut my quota by 80%.
It doesn't exactly spur me to start paying.
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I just Fever ( http://www.feedafever.com/ ). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
Bought it a few years ago... and I wouldn't recommend it. It was created in a pre-iPad/iPhone era and it's not comfortable to use from anywhere else than a PC.
That's true, but you'll have to recommend something as an alternative instead, since there is only a finite amount of RSS services; I say that as an RSS power user.
Beggars can't be choosers. :)
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#576Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just Fever ( http://www.feedafever.com/ ). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
Is this any good? Do you have the ability to customize it yourself?
I don't know what you mean by customize, but the extent of customization only extends to grouping feeds in folders and choosing how and in which order to display them.
So I wouldn't call it customizable.
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#577This 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…
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#578bastards. they never seem to realize how much they damage our trust with these actions. it effects all of their future products. I don't trust them anymore. anyway feedly has a replacement coming soon: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ > We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedl…
Their site is getting crushed right now. I can't even login.
http://www.feedly.com/ perfectly works right now. With four clicks you find all your feed groups again you had in Google Reader and the User Interface is even nicer...
I think the most important feature for any alternative is the import of the Google Reader's feeds and structure including all tags!
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#579Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, a…
It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds... I don't think Reader can find anything that Google search doesn't know. Using site:sitename.com in a regular Google search should bring up past entries as well.
Reader actually archives feeds, so there are a lot of defunct pages in Reader that Search can't find.
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#580FEEDLY has done a great job:
- with 4 clicks you find ALL feeds with
- ALL feed groups / folders
- ALL tags are imported
- you even have the complete HISTORY of all feeds again
- it is SYNCHED REALTIME with your Google Reader account: if you "like" a post in feedly, you instantly also have a "star" in Google Reader.
Any alternative discussed here should have this import and SYNC feature, otherwise it is useless.