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Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

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Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

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Post by th0br0 »

viraptor wrote: post #54
drharris wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".

There are some weird behaviour differences unfortunately. The most annoying one for me is that scrolling past an unread story marks it as read automatically... but overall, yes. It's basically closer to the original GR than anything else I've seen.

You can disable that in the settings. Besides, it's default GR behaviour nowadays.

Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

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Post by nickmain »

drharris wrote: post #25
levosmetalo wrote: post #6

I haven't switched yet. What I would like to have is the reader that is basically the same as the old good Google Reader: - be web based - be cross platform (so I can use it on phone and desktop) - be light on network and fast to load - have simple design - should have folders - sort by oldest - mark all as read (in the folder) - be optimized for text, not pictures and that's pretty much all. What it shouldn't have i…

You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".

What is their monetization strategy ?

Re: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

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Post by tlongren »

xxdesmus wrote: post #62

Fever -- http://www.feedafever.com/ but also giving Feedly a try.

Fever is very nice. There's even some code on GitHub to import your starred google reader items into Fever.

https://github.com/darkimmortal/fever-google-starred-importe...

I needed a way to bring my starred items in. I had too much great stuff starred to not retain access to it.

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