Google Reader shutting down

Post by mkr-hn » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

takluyver wrote: post #720

tempestn wrote: post #717

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For the first issue, you might check out newsblur. Basically solves the clicking through to the original issue perfectly. The second I completely agree with you on. Even these cool readers that prioritize stuff you're most likely to read, by necessity, keep track of what's read and unread, and I get exactly that same itch that I need to stay on top of everything. It's completely artificial and almost ridiculous, but…

I think in many ways the solution was already discovered: don't create the expectation that the user will read everything. When they log on, show them the most recent or most significant events, and provide a way to find older events if they want. Twitter, Facebook, plenty of news sites, aggregators like HN & reddit, all hit on more or less this. Technically, there's no reason it couldn't be done with RSS feeds. But…

Post by pihentagy » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

shenedu wrote: post #436

conesus wrote: post #13

This 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…

NewsBlur is pretty good. I've used it for a while. I also write my own feed reader: Rssminer. It's not as full-fledged as NewsBlur, but is a much lighter alternative. It's support login with google and import google reader's subscription list. http://rssminer.net/demo I hope HN finds it useful too. It's also fully open-source too: https://github.com/shenfeng

Post by taimoorq » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC