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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 bobdvb »

csense wrote: post #80

It's interesting that a lot of these seem to be hosted solutions. I'm surprised people aren't switching to self-hosted webapps or standalone desktop applications. Why aren't people more worried about these services shutting down, even with memories of Reader painfully current? I can sit back and watch people panic with smug superiority, since I never used Google Reader. I'm currently catching all of the blogosphere's…

Self-hosted? I have just migrated back to third-party hosting for much of my stuff because I was bored of maintaining my dedicated host. It was fine 99.5% of the time, but having someone else worry about availability just makes my life better. Consolidation, scale of economy and management. All for much the same reason I don't make my own electricity (although I am on the edge with that as well!).

Dedicated apps have been around forever, heck they owe their heritage to News Readers (before the binaries took over usenet). I have two laptops and a phone, so I couldn't use a stand-alone application for the 200 items I get a day.

As for "panic"? I didn't panic, I grieved and then found a replacement. It wasn't that hard and frankly it beats patching and maintaining myself, I have better things to do. I think that Google's decision was wrong because Reader was a good service, but I also think it has benefited many people because several companies and individuals have benefited from the fallout.

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

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Post by Slimbo »

pauljonas wrote: post #75

None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my vo…

I'm guessing Feedly is only servicing your 3k feeds because it's still using GReaders back end.

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

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Post by viraptor »

th0br0 wrote: post #65
viraptor wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting. It seems they keep the old behaviour for people with older accounts. I never had to turn it off in the original GR and never got the behaviour either.

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

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Post by aravenel »

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #69
gtt wrote: post #3

Please, add "Tiny Tiny RSS".

When ever I get around to it, that is what I'm going to try. I've heard good things about it. and if it works, I'll never have to worry about switching again.

It is... OK. Works pretty well if you don't have a large number of feeds. If you do, can require some decent hardware to run well. Probably not a big deal for most people here, but I got tired of administering it and switched to NewsBlur.

Some of my performance issues could have been MySQL tuning issues, but I just got tired of tinkering with it.

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

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Post by aravenel »

acdha wrote: post #78
stewie2 wrote: post #73

I tried feedly, but I'm not very used to it. I also tried newsblur, the website is very slow, the iphone app seems to be buggy. I'm waiting for digg now. Otherwise, I will build something myself.

Newsblur has gotten much faster in the last month or so and there was a major iOS app release. It's now actually pretty snappy.

Was going to say the same. Has been steadily improving over the last month or two. Still not perfect, but the best alternative I have found yet, and I love that it's under active development by someone who is invested in its success (and paid for it!).
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