Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by joelhaus » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:10 PM UTC

HackerNews is easy to include in your Google Reader Send to menu (just like the bookmarklets functionality).

Go to settings: http://www.google.com/reader/settings?display=edit-extras, click the "Send to" tab, click "Create a custom link" and add these strings:

  Name     ~ HackerNews
  URL      ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=${url}&t=${title}
  Icon URL ~ http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by jaxn » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:11 PM UTC

I use NetNewsWire every morning on my iPad. However, it is pulling from Google Reader.

My feed reading has changed drastically though. I used to subscribe to over 200 feeds, now I try to keep it under 20 (and not every feed has updates every day).

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by barik » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:13 PM UTC

I actually use a version of FeedDemon (http://www.feeddemon.com/) which is essentially a desktop application that can integrate with Google Reader. So technically, the answer is between "Yes", and "No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis".

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by jonmulholland » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

Not anymore, Twitter lists + Flipboard have totally replaced Google Reader for me.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by qcassidy » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #70

I used to go through cycles reading RSS feeds and declaring RSS bankruptcy, but I've given up. I need a priority queue RSS reader. Show me the N most "important" posts across all my feeds since I last visited. Importance would be calculated a number of ways: * Prioritize posts from low volume feeds. I probably want to see every post from a friend who blogs once a month, but not every post from Engadget. * Most favori…

Google Reader's "sort by magic" (under "View settings") might work for you:

""" A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we'll learn to put items like that first. """

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by conesus » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read.

So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com. It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay.

It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of Google Reader, most of which has slowly made its way into NewsBlur. I'm currently working on a free iOS app for NewsBlur. I also put out an API so that others could also make their own feed reader.

But really, I missed seeing the original site more than anything. It looks like a security hole, but NewsBlur actually just proxies the site and displays it back to the user. And the intelligence slider keeps me sane, since I slide it towards green and my unread count comes down to a manageable level.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by zephyrfalcon » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:16 PM UTC

there wrote: post #51

i used bloglines for a long time until they started having problems with feeds not consistently updating. i was comfortable with their interface, so i just duplicated it ( http://den.im/ - http://i.imgur.com/0e8jc.png ) and created all of the code underneath to fetch feeds. i added twitter oauth support so that twitter streams look and update just like rss feeds (but with posting/replying support). i added voting so…

It seems Bloglines is back, sort of... I'm trying it out as we speak. For some reason I really dislike Google Reader's user interface. :-/

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by there » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:17 PM UTC

sygeek wrote: post #57

there wrote: post #51

i used bloglines for a long time until they started having problems with feeds not consistently updating. i was comfortable with their interface, so i just duplicated it ( http://den.im/ - http://i.imgur.com/0e8jc.png ) and created all of the code underneath to fetch feeds. i added twitter oauth support so that twitter streams look and update just like rss feeds (but with posting/replying support). i added voting so…

I would love to try out den.im. I will appreciate if you share an invitation with me. (email address is in profile details)

sent.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by dfischer » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:17 PM UTC

I stopped using RSS a year ago. Too much shit. I filter what's important through my Twitter followers now.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by yarone » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

Yes, and it really needs to be improved! It's been neglected for too long.