Your google reader blogs

Freakytrigger
Freedarko
Emily Short (text adventure author)
Adam Cadre (another text adventure author, write mainly movie reviews)
Rock Paper Shotgun (PC videogames)
Quinns (writer from the above)
Strange Maps (maps!)

101 Great Goals
A Cultured Left Foot
Arseblog
BBC News
Blue Lines Revisited
BLVD ST
Cake Wreaks
Cocaine Blunts
CR Blog
Face Hunter
Freaky Trigger
Goodplaya
Goonerholic
HHC Digital
Hipster Runoff
Ich Luge Bullets
Idolator
Los Campesinos! Blog
Pitchfork News
Soundroots: World Music (always mean to read this, never do)
Stil In Berlin
Style Slicker
Have You Met Ted
The Onion
The Sartorialist
The Singles Jukebox
Visual Inventory
Vital Arsenal
We Eat So Many Shrimp
Young Guns

Lots of blogs that are no longer updated, I see.

Several blogs by ILXors/ex-Stylus writers (Soto, Unterberger, Matos, Cibula, et al.)

A couple personal blogs by friends.

After that, you're pretty much just left with...

FiveThirtyEight
Michael Berube (academic who writes about politics and pop culture)
The Baby Name Wizard
The Singles Jukebox

There are other blogs I read occasionally but don't put in the RSS feed because they update too often. Or else, in the case of Alan Sepinwall's TV blog, for instance, I'm only interested in the posts about shows I watch, and he keeps to a regular schedule, so it's just easier to go there the day after I watch something and know that one of the most recent posts will be his review.

Oh god, I have way too many feeds in my reader, it is becoming overwhelming. A lot of them are sort of for work though.

I just checked and I have 177 subscriptions! I guess I had better get to weeding!

From your 274 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 8,405 items, starred 11 items, shared 184 items, and emailed 0 items.

Reading Trends--
LifeHacker
Austinist
LifeRemix All
Austin Chronicle
TechCrunch
Twitter / politicalticker
- Latestbookmarks feed
MAKE Magazine
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
The Onion

yeah i have mine set up just for library blogs

From your 447 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 36,507 items, starred 49 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 0 items.

Reading Trends -
TheBox
Cinemageddon!
BBC News | News Front Page
KG
MacUpdate - Mac OS X
UKNova
this isn't happiness.
MetaFilter
ezRSS - Latest torrent releases
All Torrents :: TV Vault
LiveLeak.com - Rss Feed
L.A. Times - California | Local News
Curbed LA
:: The Playlist ::

Results skewed terribly by torrent feeds

I just cut wayyyyyyyyy down on the amount of feeds I subscribe to in GReader.

Here's one blog I really recommend: http://www.43folders.com/

from my stats list

Gawker
The Daily Beast - Cheat Sheet
Deadspin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eater NY
KEGGERS OF YORE
Baia boy
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
- prejka
Latest Movie Trailers

Anyone else? Curious to see what other ilxors are reading.

Also, how do you guys organize your feeds? I have one folder for "must read"s, another for "favorite writers," and then folders for categories of stuff I'm interested in (music, philosophy, book publishers, etc.).

some more things I've started following:

Daring Fireball [http://daringfireball.net/]
Kung Fu Grippe [http://kungfugrippe.com]
Marco.org [http://marco.org]
The Singles Jukebox [http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/]

what's everyone else reading in Google Reader (or whatever your RSS reader is)? (thinking of starting a more general "what websites are ilxors following these days?" thread, too.)

I don't even read all of mine, but my favorites are:

Jezebel
Slacktivist
Internet Monk
Racialicious
Dinosaur Comics (best comic ever!)
EurasiaNet
Smitten Kitchen
101 Cookbooks

wd also like to see more people's current picks of course

sociological images
public criminology
some boring law professor blogs
ta-nehisi coates
a tiny revolution
lawyers, guns, and money
infinite thought
racialicious
racism review
the rural blog
a lot of other stuff that i never look at

it looks like i am more interested in politics than i am

The Garden of Forking Paths
AskPhilosophers.org
blog.talkingphilosophy.com
ButterfliesandWheels.com Notes and Comments
Crooked Timber
Guide to Reality
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
News from Butterflies and Wheels
Overcoming Bias
Practical Ethics
Rust Belt Philosophy
Stephen Law
The Splintered Mind
Thoughts Arguments and Rants
Unideal Observers
virtual philosopher
Achewood
chaospet
Dinosaur Comics
Jesus and Mo
Wondermark
base58 (VISION CREATION SOLUTION)
Blue Lines Revisited
FreakyTrigger
Hangover Lounge
kottke.org
Last.fm Events
PhotoshopDisasters
Pushing Ahead of the Dame
Rocktimists.
The Singles Jukebox
visual inventory
Wired: Game|Life
Wired: Underwire
badscienceblogs
Delicious/bengoldacre
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Mind Hacks
Minds and Brains
PsyBlog
ScienceBlogs Select
Short Sharp Science
Sociological Images
The Panda's Thumb
Understanding Uncertainty
Why Evolution Is True
Wired: Wired Science
BBC - Adam Curtis
Orcinus
City Eating
how to nom
Is that....PIE?
Tales From the Tip of My Tongue
The Vintage Cookbook Trials
Language Log
cakeriders
mezzoblue
SE1 Discussion

it looks like i am more interested in everything than i am

The Morning News headlines
Delicious network feed
The Awl
Kottke
Waxy
Lifehacker: Downloads
New York Review of Books
3quarksdaily
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Gawker: Pareene
various ILX0rs' tumblrs/blogs/fbook links
James Fallows
17 dots
The Pensblog
Empty Netters
Joe Posnanski
Rob Neyer
Can't Stop the Bleeding
Tim Marchman
Buncha flickr feeds
Buncha job site feeds
FFFFound

Is there a way to just get Pareene's posts from Gawker? It hurts my head to look at that site, but I miss his writing.

haha god, entirely too many

http://gawker.com/posts/alexpareene/feed.xml

alot gleaned from ilx, so thx

krugman, greenwald, coates
dr. housingbubble blog
sartorialist
counterspin
racialicious (good to see ^ love)
love isnt enough
factcheck.org
democracy now
raw story
christian science monitor
mindhacks
lifehacker
situationist
what tami said
laker blogs, nba blogs, bunch of music blogs i haven't looked at in a while tbh tired of typing
i should subscribe to specific writers more i think, my feeds are mostly newsy or complaining or depressing for the most part

way way too many, here are the best of each category

music news - resident advisor 'the feed'
news - economist full edition
transit - the transport politic
sports - can't stop the bleeding
baseball - fangraphs
soccer - no short corners
album blogs - bolachas
gis - google latlong blog
mp3 blog - ripped in glasgow

as I'm just now putting my google reader thing together, excuse me while I casually peck at yr lists. (and thanks in advance.)

Untitled subscription
*blissblog*
blissout
*k*-*punk*
101 Cookbooks
20jazzfunkgreats
5STARHIPHOP.COM
7 YEAR GLITCH
A L A I N F I N K I E L K R A U T R O C K
A List, a Misc.
American Athlete
anaba
another night on earth
AO Art Observed™
Art Fag City
Art21 Blog
ArtCal
artforum.com
ARTLURKER
Artopia
Artworld Salon
ATfreespace
Avant Ghetto
Awesome Tapes from Africa
Bad at Sports
BEAT ELECTRIC
BIGFATSATANIST
Bimble's Windy Weather
Blackdown
Buggeryville
Cocaine Blunts & Hip Hop Tapes
CONTEMPORARY ART DUBLIN
Continental Philosophy
CRYSTAL VIBRATIONS
Deleted Scenes,Forgotten Dreams
different waters
Dinosaur Comics
Disco Delicious
disco horror
Disco2GO
DISCODUST
DJ Interviews
Dublin Bus Disco
edward_ hussein* winkleman
experimental etc
Feministing
Free and Responsible Search
GoodNoisyCore
greg.org
HIPSTER RUNOFF
Hrag Vartanian
Hyperallergic
infinite thØught
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Joe. My. God.
Kanye's Blog
kingdrake
KUMO
London Review of Books
lyfe srsli
MIND GRAPES
dern Art Notes
monstablogga
MW Capacity
New Noise Net
no longer forgotten music
NO NOT FUN NOT NO
Noise Not Music
noiZine-noise,post,extreme,avant-garde,electronica,metal & experimental
Not Your Average Music Blog
NYT > Art & Design
One-Way Street
Painter's Bread
PaintersNYC
Plaidmusic
Salon: Glenn Greenwald
Shower of Kunst
STANDARD SERIES
STEVEN ALEXANDER JOURNAL
SUNFLOWER CHAKRA MILK
Tangerines in a Red Net Bag
Terror Noise Audio
Test Pressing
The Blind Swimmer
The Irish Times' Top Stories
The New York Review of Books
The Old Gold
the static fanatic
theartblog
Tinderbox
Two Coats of Paint
Undercover Painter
Untitled (Proofs)
WE EAT SO MANY SHRIMP
WEHAVENOZEN
William Powhida
xclusive_zone
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can u rss ur tumblr dashboard?

i'm not sure if there's a built-in way to do that, but you could always create a folder in Google Reader or your rss reader of choice, call it Tumblr dashboard, and just drop in the feeds of all the people you follow. wouldn't stay in sync as you follow and unfollow people, but you could do that manually.

ikr you should stop subscribing to mind grapes and just subscribe to my tumblr since all mind grapes does is aggregate dh and the tumblr anyway

FWIW my Google Reader shared page is: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/quartzcity

way too many to list. bunch of fashion blogs (including a few of people whose style i don't like, because i can't resist..), ta-nehisi coates (who i think is my favorite blogger of all), talkleft, the plum line (greg sargent), james wolcott, correntewire, think progress, krugman, greenwald, left coaster.. bunch of other liberal blogs i can't keep up with

redskins blog, mike reiss @ espn

i've seen a lot of people mention ta-nehisi coates. i have no idea who that is, except that his blog is with the atlantic. worth following, i'm guessing?

max srsly i click subscribe and never look back

TNC is great. he writes about all kinds of topics and is OTM about 99% of the time (one exception: rooting for DALLAS COWBOYS), and always open-minded, curious, level-headed, and doesn't claim to know everything. that's pretty rare in the blogosphere. and the comments are actually worth reading too, he keeps an eye on them so that people actually have intelligent conversation.

awesome! thank you. i just added his feed.

i do not always agree w/ tnc but he is one of those rare (for me) people i can disagree with at the exact same time as really liking and appreciating him

what do you disagree with him about? i disagree with him about hitting kids.

does he not think it's ok to hit kids? in that case i disagree too, love hitting kids

i don't know specifically right now, i just know i have sometimes read him and disagreed! but i'm ok with it. i still learn things.

you know what max, i'm just inclined to disagree with people in general. could be that i really always agree with him and i just won't let it happen!

i was just wondering because i agree with you about a lot of things and i agree with tnc about a lot of things, so i wanted to pick sides on a couple issues

that's just because i don't bother saying anything when i disagree with you :)
nah i think sometimes he is just more of a moderate guy and when he makes a good argument for a moderate position i get contrarian baout things

Google Reader just added a new feature that lets you get updates on sites that don't have feeds:

Today we're rolling out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed.

...

We provide short snippets of page changes to help you quickly decide if the page is worth revisiting and we're working on improving the quality of these snippets.

Google will watch for changes in "[Removed Illegal Link]; and summarize them for you.

[Removed Illegal Link]

huh

Where are you seeing that?

This is a good site to follow for links to longer articles; I haven't added it to Reader, but I check in on it from time to time:

http://givemesomethingtoread.com/

I should add it to Reader tho.

can you have google reader email your gmail account with updates to the blogs to which you subscribe?

man, that was a terrible sentence.

I'm not sure if you can do that, but some blogs, esp. those that use Feedburner, have a small input box in their sidebars where you can type in your email address and subscribe to updates directly.

yeah but it'd be nice to manage that in one place.

Would be, but I don't think Reader has that functionality, and I don't think they'll add it.

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/02/may-we-recommend.html

New! Google Reader Play is a fun way to browse interesting stuff on the web.

O_O

what in the world is this

I don't use google reader (really should actually, just havent taken time to set it up) but I think it's an "intelligent" recommendation engine that suggests stuff based on stuff you read

like netflix "movies you'll <3" based on your past ratings

More info: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-now-for-something-completely.html

is there a way to transfer all the stuff you're subscribed to on one login/email to another? my other address has become my primary but i have to be logged in on the old one all the time so i can use reader.

you can export/import feeds somehow

settings > reader settings > import/export

aha, thx max

Ugh. Now it's my turn to whinge about a redesign (I still haven't got the FB one for some reason). Why is everything so big? Doesn't seem like I can make it any smaller in the settings :(

What's big? Looks kind of ok to me. I like the list/expanded view options. Sad to see the little circle of reader friends disappear in another sad attempt to push people into google+.

The list of items - it seems each item is almost twice as tall, so only about 15 fit on the screen, used to be about 40.

maths perhaps not my strong point there

Jesus it's even worse in IE.

the blog list on the left? looks more or less the same to me, can see about 30, on chrome.

No, the actual list of items. The main pane. "All Items" or "Starred Items". I've tried it in Chome as well, and it's the same as IE.

my main pane shows all the items at full size, always has, so it depends how big they are, but i rarely see more than two! perhaps you're using list view; i can see about 20 there, but i've never used it before, didn't even know it was an option.

Yeah I've always used list view, it's not new, it's been there as long as I've used Google reader (3+ years? not sure).

colonel poo otm--theyve changed the spacing and now fewer items can be seen onscreen at any given moment. otherwise looks ok

I miss Google Buzz.

ledge: you can choose to show expanded or summary or something - top right of screen when in any particular feed's pane, you can toggle the sizes.

But all this space! This IS big and obnoxious feeling.

y'all'll get used to it.

yeah, because I read 99% of my feeds in Byline ;)

My main problem with this design is that there isn't enough contrast/divider between posts. It just all runs together.

^^

http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=google+reader&submit=

http://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=google+reader&sort=created_date&sort_direction=desc

Sure, I'll eventually use a grease monkey script to wrangle it to look how I want, but it's still annoying to have to do.

oh very

Google has decided that "clean" means "massive cell padding" and taken the white-space broom to absolutely every desktop interface. The noise about the new Reeder feels over-egged to me but it's still a sort of boxy and unappealing look imo.

http://brianshih.com/78073742

agree with everything here.

"Terrible decision", says a man with a YELLOW BLOG

yeah the biggest issue is the huge margins. this is true of new gmail too btw--all of a sudden you get half as much information in a given screen as you did before

Maybe work will finally upgrade our PCs beyond IE7:

Some important features may not work in this version of your browser, so you have been redirected to the Basic HTML version. Upgrade to a modern browser, such as Google Chrome.

[switches to new look in gmail]

oh no no no no no!

Changing from 'Comfort' view to 'Compact' or whatever makes it a bit more usable*, but without Shiny theme I'm going to hold out changing as long as possible.

*Why isn't this option available in Reader?

oh that's much better. And I've still got my Planets theme - looks less colourful now though.

GUI is all buggy as well, link to actual blog post not working on some posts :(

i have found the combination of these greasemonkey scripts to be helpful:
google reader absolutely customizable
google reader fixes

some might prefer google reader sanity to the 'fixes' one tho

Yeah I've mangled it to look pretty much like I want now.

I'm bored of my stuff. Any noteworth image macro feeds to check out? I need to find all the FuckYeahs..

wtf? http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html

Jdjendkfnskend nnkllkknklllooooonooookk

whatttt

maybe people woulda kept using it if they hadn't fucked up the social networking features

i still use it constantly

FUCK

i use it several times a day and on iphone. it's not my fault it's not popular!!!!! googlesux

My most used website by far.

this is some bullshit

I'm sure (I hope?!) that someone comes up with a decent alternative a la pinboard over the next few months, but losing greader would totally fuck up my working day.

I thought this was coming when they hid Reader in the dropdown More menu on google.com

ugh fuck this. yeah, my most-used site as well.

i haven't explored this, but it might be a useful alternative: http://theoldreader.com

what is even the business logic behind this? like does google have a good reason to hate RSS feeds?

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html

There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.

xp Trying to drive people to google+ maybe? (I haven't used google+ enough to know if or how that would be the case)

Pretty sure the outrage will stop this from happening.

sure, it's partly that, kinda, maybe

tbh everyone seems to hate rss feeds, presumably because you can read shit without supplying eyeballs to clicks/ads

everyone being every 'the man'

that has nothing to do with why this is happening though

how do u know

i'm larry page

Fuckijg fucking fuck this shit. Heard newsblur was also worth looking at, but it seems to have collapsed.

tbh everyone seems to hate rss feeds, presumably because you can read shit without supplying eyeballs to clicks/ads

yeah this makes sense

stetreader imo

xp

has anyone tried one of these? http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57574201-233/google-reader-is-dying-but-we-have-five-worthy-alternatives/

feedly looks interesting to me (esp if I can just import my current rss list) and the post to fb feature seems cool too

come back bloglines all is forgiven

so they're going to try to lure people to google currents?

agh why want more than lists of text links, the whole world is mad

Stet: http://dev.newsblur.com if you want to try it out.

That article misses the point -- none of those (apart from maybe feedly) are google reader substitutes. They're mostly magazine/discovery apps that let you use a list of feeds as their seeds.

Reader for me was basically an RSS engine. It crawled fast (instantly for pubsub feeds), kept items forever and had great search. The server-side component matters way way more than the front end. I barely used the website, but I had clients for its API on everything.

Xp is that loading for you? Can't get it to load here.

newsblur, feedly, theoldreader all seem to have fallen down

xp It is, but slowly. Developer guy tweeted it a wee while ago in response to main site going down, so it's probably getting hit badly now.

Feedly planning compatibility with google API: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

so apparently back in 2010 Google asked the Google Reader devs to move to Google+, maybe because they were some of the few that understood how to build social apps. most of the devs voted not to, Google killed Reader and moved the devs anyway.

source: i'm just SO well-connected

actually http://www.quora.com/Google-Reader/Why-is-Google-killing-Google-Reader/answer/Brian-Shih

today's stream of entitlement (not here) has been intriguing

The original reader dev is posting on Mefi. It was storing some incredible amount of information by the end, it seems.

Also an interesting point that Google wasnt able to monetize a stream of activity and interest data that was 100x more precise than what FB can create. Either they didn't try, or this really is a social bubble we're in.

ugh feedly's interface is 'dynamic'

it's sort of horrible

slidy shit before utility

yeah another thing i'll miss about Reader: the interface wasn't "magical". it had your stuff in it. you could click on your stuff. you could use the keyboard to go up and down.

you could use greasemonkey scripts to make it the way you wanted

newsblur is the way to go, dudes, give the dude time (it's really just one dude) to add capacity in response to the flood of interest, I suspect most folks will be impressed

nerds should probably be using newsbeuter or snownews or something like that of course

The original reader dev is posting on Mefi. It was storing some incredible amount of information by the end, it seems.

Also an interesting point that Google wasnt able to monetize a stream of activity and interest data that was 100x more precise than what FB can create. Either they didn't try, or this really is a social bubble we're in.

― stet, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:24 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prob more that they were more interested in it getting not-just-nerds huge than making money, like surely they could make *some* money from it

my two tabs of permanent openness are ilx and google reader
looking at oldreader now

someday some messageboard somewhere is going to shut down and start hammering ilxor as the cool indie alternative.

fortunately you work for the corporation that runs the world and can save us

So pissed at google right now

Hey, NewsBlur is open source? I might take a look at running it here, then.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

!!!!!

note that getting your own Newsblur install running probably requires nontrivial sysadmin skills

The Reeder dev posted on Twitter that they'll keep going w/o Google Reader as the backend. Suspect they're probably going to go with iCloud.

Yeah, this looks doable.Glad to see it uses Postgres, I'm reluctant (in a superstitious way) to have anything sharing the MySQL that holds the planet of the polls.

Xp that would be v. bad -- Reeder is fast because it gets the feed content from Google. ICloud could let it sync subscriptions, but as there's no server access each client would have to poll every feed for new items individually. See NetNewsWire mobile to see how badly that goes.

Excess server polling is going to happen no matter what. Google was really the only server infrastructure that could deal with it properly.

No, what I mean is, when refreshing Reeder right now makes one connection to Google and gets everything it needs. With iCloud, on every refresh Reeder would have to contact every server for every feed you follow, download all the feeds and check them for updates. It's way, way slower (and it's worse for the servers).

we have 4 months

we can do this

everybody... focus...

http://david-smith.org/blog/2013/03/13/my-secret-project-feed-wrangler/

i think i'm going to keep on adding stuff to my google reader account and eventually switch to whatever service will eventually take its place, if one does, and if one doesn't i'll just use google+

"Alternative take" nein danke

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/404871119_69534bc7f5_z.jpg?w=300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725

NewsBlur looks good; I've already given it 12 bucks for a one year subscription. I would have gladly paid more than that to keep google reader!

Lots of traffic on app.net talking about RSS-via-app.net.

it's certainly an interesting use for the service, but given app.net is all about the ~social graph~ it could also be way off

It could very well be a/the terrific tech demo/killer for app.net which still has yet to figure itself out completely.

From your 142 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 5,497 items, clicked 34 items, starred 53 items, and emailed 2 items.
Since August 5, 2007 you have read a total of 296,269 items.

LifeHacker
DCist: Washington DC News, Food, Arts & Events
CNN Political Ticker
Slate Magazine
Talking Points Memo
kung fu grippe
DealBook
LifeRemix All
Daring Fireball

^^^ the more things change

I don't know much about how this stuff works, but I hope this doesn't lead to more web sites not even providing a feed. Although, don't a lot of sites create their feed using feedburner? That must be going away too, huh.

It could very well be a/the terrific tech demo/killer for app.net which still has yet to figure itself out completely.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:05 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the timing is excellent. i don't know whether the current infrastructure would support it (what i've seen looks miles off tbh), and they'd have a slab of work ahead of them to incorporate it; but i'm guessing there'd need to be a bit of a roadmap rejig, priorities &c.

where app.net would definitely be amazing is in building in the sharing and commenting aspect of news aggregators. caldwell has already discussed publicly the potential of app.net in driving disqus-like comments implementations. app.net could link those users to likes and shares and all sorts of crap. there's not a tonne of work between what exists now and a facility to support and connect all that.

Pretty sure the outrage will stop this from happening.

― Jeff, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha

The Reeder dev posted on Twitter that they'll keep going w/o Google Reader as the backend. Suspect they're probably going to go with iCloud.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:21 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_;

lol at newsblur depending on scipy, that is ludicrous

some tech details here http://inessential.com/2013/03/13/google_reader_over_and_out

Haha newsblur is not having a very good day (I hope)

WELL THIS FUCKING BLOWS

alternatives and commentary http://onethingwell.org/post/45350633253/google-reader

newsblur guy seems to be having the best worst day ever, yeah. He's had to cut off free accounts and increase the minimum paid amount to slow down signups.

newsblur is fugly imo

idk maybe you're better off dying if your paramedic is wearing crocs and a beige cardigan

his dog must be eatin good

if the creator of an rss reader didn't know google reader was shutting down then i'd question their competence tbh.

it's been fairly obviously on the cards for years

what does that have to do with being massively overloaded? takes resources to be ready for that.

Now RSS is going to have someone spending their time delivering the best service they can, rather than spending their time trying to figure out what ads it could inject in between posts.

.. did this happen on Google Reader? I don't remember seeing ads in between posts

xp, pre-AWS et al. yes. or if newsblur's idea of resources is a dreamhost shared account, yes.

how can you be ready if you're a small company or a solitary dude to take on all the traffic that freaking GOOGLE used to handle

AWS

obviously it's not zero work to move a web app to AWS, but this guy presumably knows RSS, so he's known for years that he would have an opportunity to make millions :-(

by "knows RSS", i mean he must have known google was going to do this. it's been a pretty widely disseminated rumour for a couple of years among the RSS dev crowd

He had a similar but smaller-scale flood of new traffic when Google Reader canceled its social features last year. I believe his infrastructure is on a few different virtual hosting providers. He's currently trying to improve his database sharding, which I guess is nontrivial and requires more than just adding new virts to a cluster.

does anybody want to friend me on NewsBlur by the way? My handle is the same there as here.

i do not understand friending/sharing via news readers. i've barely got enough time to read the stuff i'm interested in as it is.

it's like farming some of the work out to your friends. you only read (in some areas) things they think are especially interesting.

once i step into sharing it's like i'm being hit with a wall of shit loads of people think *someone* might like. always a better experience for me to find that stuff via personal emails (or pm or directed tweet or whatever) or on ilx.

well you can't be friends with ned for this to work

(heyo)

aww poor ned

fwiw he's one of the few genuinely valuables retweeters around

*valuable

http://theoldreader.com/ there is a queue

Thank you for uploading your OPML file. We will soon start importing your subscriptions, which might take up to several hours depending on the amount of feeds you have.

There are 28225 users in the import queue ahead of you.

ugh mailbox.app redux

once i step into sharing it's like i'm being hit with a wall of shit loads of people think *someone* might like
--badg horror stories (Autumn Almanac)

Didn't we also once have a dialogue about how you were angry at twitter for pushing you crap when the problem was your timeline rather than twitter as a thing? Same problem here?

my favourite AA dialogue is still the checkbox itunes one

yes xp

Tempo, the "AI calendar" from the Siri people, is doing the queue thing too. Super obnoxious.

ia calendar morelike

far out, i'm channelling lex today

"obnoxious"?

the alternative is apparently lol newsblur

feedly

i'm not sold on it but it seems to be okay at least in the short term

my favourite AA dialogue is still the checkbox itunes one

― caek, Friday, March 15, 2013 3:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh mailbox.app redux

― badg horror stories (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 16 March 2013 09:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably not the ideal thread (i don't know which one would be tbh) but dropbox just bought mailbox

"obnoxious"?

― caek, Friday, March 15, 2013 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just think the notion of a queue for downloading an app is really lame--if you're not ready to scale, maybe it's not a good idea to make your stuff available to 6 billion people? idk.

like the queue to me says 'we would like to build our brand and buzz and profit potential while providing services to a comparatively small numer'

*number obv

it just strikes me as a dishonest way to 'build buzz' or whatever

and to see it so rapidly adopted by others after mail.app suggesting maybe this is a 'new trend' is prob hyperbolizing my dislike

buzz

i mean i agree with you 100% but ~buzz~

google buzz new from google

i think the old reader queue is not what you have in mind. there's always a queue to import subs. they have to crawl them. it takes a while. a lot of sites have always had this. it's just that night now the queue is anomalously due to the google reader exodus. you can take a tour of the app in the meantime. it's not a marketing gimmick like with mailbox.

2013-03-16 10:23 GMT:
The good part of our rebalancing has already finished, and we were able to ramp up the speed of import queue processing. Feed updates are still behind the schedule, but we are pretty confident that everything is going to be back to normal by the end of the weekend. Thank you for your patience.

2013-03-15 07:15 GMT:
Hey, everyone. Our user base grew x7 during past 24 hours, so we are having some capacity issues right now that prevent feed import and refresh operations from running on time.

We had an option of closing new user registration, but since these problems are temporary we decided to give new folks a chance to experience our interface.

Please keep in mind that feeds are usually updated much faster, so any update problems you see are temporary and are caused by data rebalancing processes that we are running in background.

these guys seem 100% more competent than newsblur fwiw

this news has irrationally made me afraid to visit my google reader. like if I go too much I'm gonna use it all up. that's why they're shutting it all down right? people are using up all the google reader. : /

i'm doing the opposite, catching up on everything like the clappers cos i'm doubting any new service will be able to handle me

There are 30309 users in the import queue ahead of you.

Nah caek that's about what NewsBlur has been dealing with; he's been updating Twitter and such. Also let me point out that even with stuff like AWS, scaling up a service like this is non-trivial. Cf. the SimCity launch for a recent example. They had AWS and millions of dollars and dozens of engineers and it still was a clusterfuck.

well yeah, but i think you're overestimating the size of the spike. this is like that "everyone i know votes labour" thing. there aren't *that* many google reader actively looking for a replacement right now. there's a queue of 30k on old reader, so newsblur is probably dealing with an influx ~ the same size.

sim city is a different scale of thing.

also unless they are completely clueless they must have known this was coming. ("this" being an opportunity to become millionnaries btw.) i knew it was coming, and i'm completely clueless.

but yeah, it's not easy. i guess i'm just reacting to the fact that one of their dependencies is a FORTRAN compiler.

also launch (e.g. sim city) != traffic spike

surely google are going to add an rss reader to google+ !?

i mean they keep going on about making google+ more central to their product set, and such an addition would totally make me swing over a lot more often.

surely google is going to continue pissing on our faces

like the queue to me says 'we would like to build our brand and buzz and profit potential while providing services to a comparatively small numer'

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:47 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*number obv

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:47 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it just strikes me as a dishonest way to 'build buzz' or whatever

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:47 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and to see it so rapidly adopted by others after mail.app suggesting maybe this is a 'new trend' is prob hyperbolizing my dislike

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:48 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take a second to think about how entitled this sounds dude

like maybe it just takes them resources they don't have to deal with 30000000 new users for their free service

The PM for G+ posted recently with a really surprised tone asking people what they liked about Reader and what G+ didn't have. They have *no idea* what they had in Reader, and no strategy for replacing it. At least not in G+.

It really smells to me like this was just a product with no executive support, and no powerful enough internal advocates, which took a reasonable amount of resources (the crawling and the database were both apparently considerable) and that got killed without too much consideration.

stets aims, fires, and hits the target ....

I wonder what the usage statistics were - seems like heavy users would skew towards the highly tech-literate side of the average internet user, i.e. the kind most likely to make a fuss, but not possessing the long tail characteristics of people who use livejournal

I don't even know what 'long tail characteristics' means but it sounds fancy and appropriate for a conversation about internet media tech ted social 2.0 websites

it seems to have driven more traffic to most sites than G+ by a factor of a 100. but 100 x not a lot is still not a lot. in an absolute sense, this was not a popular service, and it had surely stagnated in terms of users (if it wasn't already declining).

stet otm

also http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/rip-google-reader.html

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr03/2013/3/14/11/enhanced-buzz-13120-1363274183-3.jpg

that's buzzfeed

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/google-kills-rss/

cue the conspiracy theories

take a second to think about how entitled this sounds dude

Hah, this would sound pretty entitled if your post didn't follow immediately after equating Google reducing by 1 the number of absolutely free services they provide, to pissing in our faces.

we're the ones providing them with all their data and their opportunities to make money for their advertisers

http://img.bulawayo24.com/articles/head-of-cattle.jpg

l-r: ilx

apropos of fuck all, i'm getting the chrome 'aw snap' page heaps today

if they had proper ad segmenting for demographics, i bet they could charge way more for google reader ads. some niche blogs have that model.

/take a second to think about how entitled this sounds dude/

Hah, this would sound pretty entitled if your post didn't follow immediately after equating Google reducing by 1 the number of absolutely free services they provide, to pissing in our faces.

lets get one fact straight,... I'm the guy who likes to piss in people's faces

i don't really know what RSS feeds "are" but isn't this what twitter is for?

you don't understand anything

What good feeds is everyone subscribed to these days?

― three handclaps, Thursday, September 27, 2007

http://www.replacereader.com/

apropos of fuck all, i'm getting the chrome 'aw snap' page heaps today

― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 11:11 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw this seems to be particular to today's canary builds, if anyone else cares/is getting it too

fuck them all ... sometimes their daily builds are unstable

lmao you are hilarious

thanks, ~scientist~

The PM for G+ posted recently with a really surprised tone asking people what they liked about Reader and what G+ didn't have. They have *no idea* what they had in Reader, and no strategy for replacing it. At least not in G+.

is that this post? https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U. ha oh man.

https://feedbin.me/ launched on tuesday, which i think is earlier than planned. looks good (and not overloaded), but $2/mo, no desktop/iphone app.

well i just signed up. can cancel in the first three days. seems nice on desktop but website doesn't work on iphone. rip.

i'm just assuming somebody's gonna get their shit together before june 1st

like this is how i feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqRPOEa3P44

the feedbin author seems to know what he's doing though, and comes recommended by maciej from pinboard, and i like this attitude

https://twitter.com/feedbinapp/status/312425191487700994

basically the winner here is going to be the one whose API reeder decides to support first/best

id like to dedicate this song to google reader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qWlPCEnGM

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3848975/oldreader.jpg

took about 1s to install and poll all my feeds at feedbin. a+ recommended from that point of view.

hoping Reeder figures it out. I use the Reeder iPhone app religiously, but never loved the desktop version enough to replace just going to google reader direct. Recently joined something called Jolicloud that aggregates your logins and services so you have one clean page to look access dropbox, google drive, facebook, tumblr, instagram, soundcloud, instapaper and others (those are the ones I clicked on) and I emailed them about adding and RSS reader to replace Google. They responded right away and said "You're not the first one to say so. I can't say anything yet, but for now, you should check out Pocket. It's actually really nice if you're looking to ditch Reader."

Pocket's no replacement any more than Instapaper is though, if I understand it right.

feedbin iphone support (as a web app, not native) is apparently "days away"

The PM for G+ posted recently with a really surprised tone asking people what they liked about Reader and what G+ didn't have. They have *no idea* what they had in Reader, and no strategy for replacing it. At least not in G+.

― stet, Saturday, March 16, 2013 1:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol didn't post my response.

so sad, i mean

Your goole reader blogs

Warning: This is not a thread to simply complain about the shutdown, or to ask Google to keep Reader. That's not something that I can help you with, nor is it a decision that I had anything to do with, and this is not a good place to get anyone's attention about that. This thread is a place to talk about specific things which are useful about it so that we can think about good ways to capture that usefulness in the modern world.

modern world?!?! FUCK U

in case anyone itt wants to dump gmail for something hip and indie, I've heard good things about fastmail.fm. (My email is hosted on a friend's server so I don't use it myself.)

tried feedly but it was some 20-feed magaziney housewife thing (also installed some sharey toolbar gtfo). quite liked the in-window page preview tho

had a look at newsblur, too fugly for me to believe dude will ever get anything right

trying oldreader, p clean reader clone but uh not much in the way of settings (post title only)? even if i only end up ignoring them all it kinda makes me think dudes don't have too many ideas

feedbin screenshots look nice but in the absence of more rvws i'd really rather play around with the ui a little before i'd ever fork out

kinda feel like all these guys are too stuck on ~reading~ and underthinking the skimming angle

it is kind of funny that we are all trying to pick a winner from the #ReplaceReader contenders when really it's great if all of them succeed, helps ensure the long-term health of RSS in the post-Google Reader monoculture era. If traffic from Google Reader was singlehandedly sustaining the willingness of publishers to support RSS and Atom, we might see more of them dropping it entirely after July 1.

you mean content publishers or software publishers?

cuz it doesn't take any work on the content side.

content publishers. and like it takes some non-zero amount of work to set up and maintain a feed, and (this is of more concern to publishers) can rob you of ad impressions if you publish a full-text feed.

ppl are trying a bit too hard with this innovative freedom from the chains of the stifling google monoculture narrative imo

whenever it was google redesigned reader they blew everyone out of the water, it wasnt simply for the convenience of the single umbrella that ppl immediately switched over from bloglines or whatever

this current farcical inept limbo where no one in the market has got their shit together yet even despite the clearly signposted millions of bucks to be made is a truer indication of where the rss industry problem lies

feedbin screenshots look nice but in the absence of more rvws i'd really rather play around with the ui a little before i'd ever fork out

― r|t|c, Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bear in mind you get 3 days before they charge you, and then they charge you $2/month, so it's either free or the cost of an iphone app to try.

otm btw

I don't need some super innovative rss culture I just need something that compiles all the blogs I read

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

cosign

I need that and sync. Really, that's it.

in case anyone itt wants to dump gmail for something hip and indie, I've heard good things about fastmail.fm. (My email is hosted on a friend's server so I don't use it myself.)

I've been using Fastmail for something like eight or nine years. Mainly I used it to host a basic website which can easily be done from the email account. It hasn't changed much in that time. I don't know how "indie" it is - it's now owned by Opera. Their webmail is based on Fastmail.

I don't need some super innovative rss culture I just need something that compiles all the blogs I read

― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:39 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya otm

this is what i'm saying about skimming v reading, i dont even care about fulltext feeds in a prissy environment i just wanna stay vaguely on top of 1400 websites ffs

is that too niche idk

i mean if thats really all you want you probably hsould just wholesale switch to twitter?

not every blog has a twitter acct

what if i want to know when a particular blog is updated w/out having to read the blogger's recent argument w/ us airways?

yeah I read most of the bloggers on twitter too but it's not the same, even if they link to their own posts

right but if rtc is already just skimming his 1400 blogs or wahtever it cant be that much harder to skim the us airways arguments. & theres only one blog w/ out a twitter and its freddie deboer and youre better off just not reading it

also reeder keeps track of what i haven't read yet, while twitter if u go to sleep you can miss 500 comments. also, no blog i subscribe to updates more than 10x a day

i am not tell you, mordechai, to switch to twitter, i am suggesting that based on rtcs patterns of usage, he might be just as well served by twitter

key issue for me is stripping the ads. i will pay for the content i read if it means no ads.

and like it takes some non-zero amount of work to set up and maintain a feed

It's non-zero but it's really really close to zero for any decent blogging software.

I only moved to Google Reader a couple of months ago, I will probably return to my previous solution when it pops.

I'm still sad that Google Reader killed the social comments and shit a long time back

yeah that caused NewsBlur's first usage spike a year ago or whatever before it even had social features. (It has social features now, not sure how much uptake there has been or anything. It's not a thing I use.)

take a second to think about how entitled this sounds dude

― zero dark (s1ocki), Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftr i was thinking more along the lines of 'pre-release queues' ala tempo & mailapp, existing places scrambling under unexpected demand is a v dif thing imo

have you guys seen the Google Currents app? really seems like they're trying to make it a rss-replacement thingy with the possibility of paid subscriptions

looks a lot more like flipboard

that's been around for a while I think they mostly gave up on it

they did a complete app redesign in january

oh maybe just I did

otm

No way is twitter a replacement. I follow so many blogs and sites that don't tweet. And I don't want constant little blurbs I just want to know whfn there's a new post or article!

as an online journalist do you find google reader indispensable, max y/n?

i am literally only suggesting twitter to rtc

no ill be fine without it. its nice but twitter is a much better way to find stories

as someone who follows eg mp3 blogs and minor personal/academic blogs its a huge bummer tho

greader is great for keeping comprehensive track of a number of sites but if youre following a zillion sources and really only skimming most of it you might as well just do twitter

Do you read every tweet? I mean, things that are interesting are probably going to get mentioned on twitter but for sites that don't tweet literally every time they add a post, it's kind of like reading only what others have told you is interesting.

thats what social media is iirc

max are you suggesting twitter to me?

I like antisocial media

greader is great for keeping comprehensive track of a number of sites but if youre following a zillion sources and really only skimming most of it you might as well just do twitter

It all depends... Craigslist's feed system is great for generating custom feeds based on search words - indispensable if you're searching for freelance work (show me part-time PostgreSQL work in NYC please) and something that Twitter can't replace at all.

I've gone back to NetNewsWire w/no syncing for now.

I guess that is kind of what the old google reader was great for, in that you could see what articles your friends were reading and sharing, have conversations about them, and still have all the normal rss reader things. I ended up nearly exclusively using the web version when their was a social aspect, even if I was just going to read through my own feeds. When they killed those, there was no reason not to just use desktop/mobile apps 100% of the time. Ironically, by killing that feature in lieu of google wave, they killed hits to their actual site.

i definitely dont read every tweet

I guess that is kind of what the old google reader was great for, in that you could see what articles your friends were reading and sharing, have conversations about them, and still have all the normal rss reader things

Tombot's shared articles & commentary on the old gReader were 45x more interesting and to-the-point than all the cybersecurity/defense blogs put together.

all these things lost in time

elvis otm

^^^

90% of what I will miss about google reader is casually looking for the right used motorcycle - I can tell at a glance how many new craigslist motorcycle for sale posts there are with a price of at least $100 but less than $2000 in four nearby towns while narrowing that search to only those that are Honda CB 750s in six other areas within a five hour drive.

I probably would have no issue just using twitter for everything else, but even if I ignore my feeds for a couple days and "mark all as read" without actually reading, I'll always scope the motorcycle feed.

cool twitter

http://blog.newsblur.com/post/45632737156/three-months-to-scale-newsblur

so did feedly just fall over?

It all depends... Craigslist's feed system is great for generating custom feeds based on search words - indispensable if you're searching for freelance work (show me part-time PostgreSQL work in NYC please) and something that Twitter can't replace at all.

God yes, although I'm usually looking for furniture.

feedly back up.

inevitable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpsfDEQkTf4

I thought Reader was going to hang around a few more months, apparently demoted to More then Even More and tonight it's not even on that page.

don't want any adventuresome people accidentally getting into it for the first time just because it happens to be getting buzz

It's always been on More for me - until today.

I remember the day it moved from the main bar to under More. There was sadness, there was outrage. Google had fucked with my daily workflow and it threw my life out of whack for months. I often wondered why couldn't you just customize that bar? It was the beginning of the end.

Anyway, I'm not going to jump on one of these other services right away, especially one that you have to pay for. The clear leader will rise to the top over the next couple of months and we'll have a suitable replacement.

I thought same thing. Tried out feedbin for a day and it seems nice, but I'll end up with whoever works best with reeder. We've still got a few months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9hbVe7r4s

Case study in RSS follies part #666: http://inessential.com/2013/03/18/my_favorite_way_to_screw_up_a_feed

All the more reason to not have the end device trying to read all the feeds by itself

We are happy to inform you that we have finished importing your subscriptions.
128 feeds you imported should now be available at http://theoldreader.com/.
Thank you for using The Old Reader.

There are 17787 users in the import queue ahead of you.

I haven't messed around yet, but Feedly is working hard to woo Google Reader readers, including a "how-to" make feedly look and act the most like Reader. Plus, in the prefs, you can turn off that damn little share thing on the lower right-hand corner of your window.

Still, if Reeder figures out how to migrate I'll stick with that.

We are happy to inform you that we have finished importing your subscriptions.
128 feeds you imported should now be available at http://theoldreader.com/.
Thank you for using The Old Reader.

Did they email this to you or did you have to go back and check?

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/162237

alrighty then fuck an absurdly cackhanded oldreader queue, feedly it is. maybe someone change that shitty favicon too though

(tbh in-page preview is almost worth killing reader for imho)

Yeah magazine view is great, and I like that you can customise per feed. Don't like the way it auto collapses categories in the sidebar on startup, and doesn't bold yr feeds with unread items.

they email you xxp

i hope feedbin wins tbh because the other ones will get bought and delicioused

bought by google i'd expect

feedbin isnt going to win, probably just gonna be like that lil niche nerd pinboard thing

this tweaked feedly is hot fire though, i am srsly beasting my feeds right now

lil niche nerd pinboard thing

I'd be happy with that

Me too

ya i didnt mean it disparagingly

personally though i am of that irrational general public who would sooner put up with a 65-70% effective free thing than give up the change in my pocket for 100%

i hate magazine views tbh

@reederapp
Reeder for iPhone will get support for @feedbinapp soon. More to come. (The Mac and iPad versions will get this with 2.0)

i'm hoping that someone gets together an open implementation of the reader api that i can just host on my own webserver without paying $2 a month for something like feedbin; i also hope that reeder will support this

I've never used it but does fever not sort of do this..?

nm it costs $$

dave, NewsBlur is open source and has its own API. (And its own iOS apps.)

i use reeder on my desktop and ipad so i don't really need a webclient like newsblur, i just need something that will let reeder sync my feeds. also newsblur was a complete pain in the ass to get running locally

so like, what are we using instead of google reader? i just skipped like 300 msgs

I still use google reader. There has been no suitable replacement yet.

Might have to sign up for feedbin if that's what Reeder's going to use, but am waiting till nearer the time in case there's a special offer or the like

i'm going with the "i'm in denial this is ever happening" route and continuing using google reader like usual

I switched to NewsBlur a year ago and have been stanning for it itt

I need something that works with the iOS app Mr. Reader.

yup denial's the way to go

glad to hear reeder's got a solution, i love it so much

feedbin is going to win, i called it

It's the need for winners that got us in this situation!

no it isn't, it's people's refusal to pay 1 coffee/month prices for services they find invaluable.

In fairness, they never asked!

I pay for Flickr and that feels a bit like a graveyard atm. (At the mo. Not a cash machine in a cemetery.)

major minuses when choosing essential services:

(1) do they refuse to take my money? (2) are they run by people whose goal is to sell the service to yahoo?

they sell, someone else comes along, they sell, someone else comes along, what's the big deal

nationalize google

and disband south yorkshire police

still using reader, but also using netnewswire from my home pc so at least i feel semi-synced to something else for the time being.

my feedbin blogs

i'm still using google reader because what's the rush

It dropped off my menu today. Feedly is pretty great it turns out

its been off my menu for damn ever

problem with feedly is you need to use it via extension right? I need to be able to load reader on any random computer and catch up on my readerings.

The Reeder developer posted another update http://reederapp.com/reader/

Probably will go with whatever he recommends.

I just joined feedbin. Simple, seems fast. uses same key commands as reader (j/k for forward and back and s for starred). May be pretty much all I need, and use Reeder on iPhone still.

Joined it too. Doesn't seem to have any search, and I prefer folders to tags, but it's the least-bad so far

I had to give up on reeder, the iPad app is terrible.

there's a version 2 coming in the next 60 years, but yes, annoying ui

Ugh feedbin costs money.

not much, and maybe makes it less likely to suddenly disappear?

not much, and maybe makes it less likely to suddenly disappear?

Seriously. It costs a coffee a month. And the sass the guy is throwing at people on twitter complaining about I not being free makes me think he gets it.

I signed up on launch day but cancelled my account while the dust settled. Does it work on iPhone yet?

I know I'm just cheap hah.

subscriber piety is nagl imo

the things it supposedly guarantees are dubious anyway, you don't necessarily get a better product (cos people that have paid have already decided theyre happy with whats on offer) and therefore the only reason it doesnt get bought is cos walling it off to plebs puts a ceiling on its popularity. u rly think feedbinbro is still gonna cling onto his monthly chump change if yahoo or whoever come calling?

besides i mean, take feedly, it looked like ass but within days someone out there made a script to make it look just like reader and now shit's legit. freeloader market resolved itself while feedbin dudes are gonna be stuck with "well i prefer folders to tags but uh oh well i guess i only read daringfireball anyway"

Yeah I don't mean it's an attractive personal characteristic. I just mean being picky about the kind of customers you want is a proxy for other stuff I find encouraging. He seems to know/have worked with the pinboard guy, who I do think would turn down yahoo fwiw.

Useful?

Project Normandy might "fail" and Feedly would be broken after July 2013...

ok did not know this

That was from the RssOwl forum

How does one make Feedly more like Reader?

And is there now way to use Feedly without installing a plugin?

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/162237

I'm not installing "tampermonkey". I hate all that stuff. I don't need another extension to install just so I can install some other extension.

the people who said you should basically just wait and then figure out what to do are right. shit still seems way too up in the air right now. so hang tight. and maybe just keep using reader

don't switch to stupid shit with few users, either. we want a market leader here. other shit might just die off. i don't think the market will support fifty great rss readers. and we'll all be on the cool one and you'll be on the shitty one and it'll be awful for you but we won't be able to help you

bye for now. hope that was helpful

i've decided to just use reeder and see how that goes

http://bit.ly/14Hiklu

dude that's totally fetish shit, google "vore" sometime (or don't!)

oops. it was in my tweet stream

good thing i only posted it here twice i think

~YoshiSquadron Apr 14, 2011 Student Writer
I wish that was me...

feedbin is nice because it has a robust documented API, or so I am led to believe, and them wanting to support app developers (who drive business to them) with features and support should keep them on their toes.

I'm not installing "tampermonkey". I hate all that stuff. I don't need another extension to install just so I can install some other extension.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 April 2013 18:59 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

if this is really such a source of great butthurt then iirc you can just right click download the user.js script and then drag it onto chrome's extensions page

tampermonkey does check for script updates though which might be handy occasionally

tampermonkey

so like, what are we using instead of google reader? i just skipped like 300 msgs

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:40 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://theoldreader.com/

i'm following markers advice fwiw

interesting charts http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/47142810692/mixed-news-everyone-update-help-search-report-and

lol 乒乓, i think you might've been in what i was referring to as the category of "the people who said you should basically just wait and then figure out what to do are right"

maybe

anyway, i'm on reeder & google reader right now and we'll see what happens.

still way nicer to consume feeds via google reader in a safari window than on reeder on my ipad mini. a lot of people praise reeder but i just don't actually think it's that good. maybe most of them are referring to the iphone version or something -- which i haven't used -- because the ipad one is just not great

Totally agree, I couldn't stand it.

I love Mr. Reader for the iPad, and Reeder for the iPhone. I'm also waiting to see who comes out on top.

^ I use this combination also. I've been giving Newsblur a spin, but I do not love it.

I really like iPad Reeder, what do you guys hate so much?

it sucks

Last time I tried it you couldn't move where the up and down buttons were. It is absolutely worthless to me on the left. Mr. Reader has an ingenious mechanism for moving between posts and you can do it from either side if the screen.

You can just pull through posts on reeder, I never use the buttons

Gonna try Mr Reader now tho

$4.50 for an app that relies on google reader, wtf (unless i'm missing a tremendous new development)

I'm a button guy.

have any of you been trying out any of the non-rss "news" apps like flipboard or summly (which yahoo just acquired and shut down) or anything like that? the new flipboard magazines are interesting and it's obviously a pretty cool product for people who want to get news on their tablets but maybe aren't like the people in this thread.

stuff i have installed: facebook, twitter, instapaper, reeder, flipboard, white house, ap mobile, reuters, npr

podcasts too but that's in my media folder even though it's powered by rss and i think apple categorizes it as "news"

then there's newsstand, which i'm using for the magazine and eventually hopefully possibly for the new yorker too.

rss is basically how I track the ex-ILX ex-livejournal diaspora, which is mostly but not entirely on tumblr (but fuck an actual using a tumblr website)

flipboard shitted me to tears last time i looked, but that was a while ago. currents is weird and annoying. the idea of circa is probably more grating to me than the execution. i think on the whole the notion of sharing (especially when coupled with certain orgs pushing their content within sharing apps) is not my thing, unless it's sat morning and i'm too lazy to get up.

i don't even use flipboard that much but i figured i should have at least one of the ios "magazine" apps on there. i subscribed to a few of the new magazine things too. i have a feeling they might end up being a fad, or at least many of them will go away quickly as people move on to whatever else new tech stuff comes out.

i have a few newsstand subscriptions going, more than i have time to read tbh. the formatting discrepancy drives me up the wall (e.g. 10 mb mauras v 200 mb new yorkers) but it's quicker, cheaper and easier than going down the shops and buying six week old imported mags for $13 a pop.

I'm thinking of hiring an intern to check my favorite websites hourly and print out new articles, she'll staple them all together and it'll be this little magazine of new things web things for me to read.

Unless of course something more practical comes along to replace Google Reader.

it will

Wait did Yahoo *shut down* Summly?? Why? It wasn't impressive enough to cannibalize yet, I figured they were gonna throw money at it and make it a Yahoo News branded app or something.

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredible-journey.php

Still bumping along with Vienna here. Mostly, I'm just sending articles I want to read to Pocket and then the phone picks them up via sync.

just got feedly going. it instantly imported feeds and favorites. it looks damn clean and it has all the same keyboard shortcuts. i'm sold.

(got this for chrome btw)

if i had to switch to a different rss service right now that'd be a definite contender

just do it now

I've been using Feedly for the past hour or so. I agree that it's really quite good. It's slightly slower, and I've had a couple of odd mishaps (possibly due to a bug, possibly due to me not being entirely comfortable with the interace yet. Not sure.)
Since it runs on the Reader engine, it's REALLY easy to try out, since it naturally syncs up perfectly with Reader. The sync also makes it easy to swap between the two.

Wish n/p worked the same as in Reader; for some reason it marks the article as read here. I didn't like that it showed how many people had shared something on Facebook, but that was clearly marked in the HTML and quick to remove with adblock.

Thanks for the push, M Bison. I've kinda dreaded having to figure out where to move after GReader, just kinda hoping it would be obvious when it's time. Sure hope these guys get their replacement engine working smoothly.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for-90m-in-stock-and-cash/

what's the chance that none of these guys are able to monetize enough to stay independent

if any of them succeed, it'll be flipboard, but even there they might not get enough traction

how are we doing on this? i'm not so sure i want to wait until july anymore. thinking of feedly maybe, but who knows

I'm still happy with Newsblur, I think signups for free accounts are open again. Dude has been busy scaling up his db since things first exploded, think he's at 2.5x the fetches per day as a month ago. The dev version of the webui and the beta version of the Newsblur iOS app are both big improvements over what's currently "released", see http://dev.newsblur.com and http://dev.newsblur.com/ios/download (that link seems shady but it's using iOS enterprise provisioning, apparently).

ok i'll take a look at that too

"enterprise provisioning" is my new name. "me irl" if you will

i got the old reader working, but it's too slow for me :( will have to investigate others

Switched to feedly and generally it's been a pretty solid replacement. A bit slower and it could use search functionality, but otherwise it works fine. I'm still uneasy about how the login credentials are still hardwired to Google Reader and am uncertain about what'll happen when Reader goes offline.

I'm still waiting for a clear winner.

I've completely switched to printed news media. That's not going anywhere.

found out that my outlook installation has a nice rss feed function

- so that'll sort me out for the time being.

"enterprise provisioning" is my new name. "me irl" if you will

― markers, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:46 AM

i should give credit to a friend on twitter, i think, for something like "phrase" or whatever is "something's name" deal, i think. something like that.

anyway, i'm gonna try to decide between newsblur/feedly/or something else today. i don't know if there's a clear winner (feedly?) or if something's going to change between now and the shutdown, but i'm thinking of switching now even if i have to switch again, primarily because i've been working on my ipad setup and would just kind of like to get the whole thing done, which would have to include kicking reeder off of my home screen and putting something new on there that's not hooked up to google reader. the worst thing that could happen by my switching now instead of later is that i have to switch again, and that shouldn't be a huge deal because, hopefully, all of these things will support opml import/export, so the cost of switching should be incredibly low

lol enterprise provisioning

I'm still uneasy about how the login credentials are still hardwired to Google Reader and am uncertain about what'll happen when Reader goes offline.

― doug watson, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:37 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, shit.

yeah i didn't see that post

so much for switching to that today

Google's auth services are going nowhere, they don't use reader-specific credentials

i'm on 'the old reader'

feedly is making every browser i use it on drag

i think it's really meant as a mobile app. but management is much easier on desktop of course.

the only problem with the mobile app is it launches content in its own little minibrowser which is warm garbage. you have to prompt it through menu to load in your real browser.

Google's auth services are going nowhere, they don't use reader-specific credentials

Ah, of course. Was confused since it's the only google service to which I currently subscribe.

Reeder's been updated to support Feedbin. Seems pretty seamless, tbh

Works very well.

so does it make sense to export Reader via takeout, import that into Feedbin, then switch Reeder to sync from Feedbin instead of Reader?

I don't see any sign that Reeder works with Feedbin. How does that work?

iPhone version only for now

yeah, just updated.

ok, feedbin is working more or less. It's a bit sluggish, just updated unread posts without updating the unread in the tags which confused me but it caught up. Reeder on iPhone takes longer to sync, but it's working and hopefully will get over some of these growing pains. Didn't love that to do sharing w/ feedbin you have to copy code from github or whatever, but it worked fine, I just set up "email", "instapaper" and "facebook" sharing.

Don't love the use of tags instead of folders, but it's not a huge deal.

feedbin is strangely fast compared to reader once it's updated.

otm

If this lives up to the promise, I'll be delighted. Filters! FUCK YES
https://feedwrangler.net/welcome.html

the last thing we need is instagram-style filters in an RSS app ffs

"It isn't a fly-by-night outfit without a business model"

google zing?

Seems to have no tags/folders. FUCK NO

have you tried the ios app stet?

tbh i don't really like reeder.

what are ilxor's fave geopolitical/foreign affairs rss feeds? i sub to Wired's Danger Room blog, Foreign Policy, Mind Matter & Politics, Nybooks.com, Ottomans + Zionists, and Elder of Ziyon (hasbara blog). i also have a bunch of world music feeds i sub to (NPR World, This is Africa, Afrobeat Blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa, one israeli song a day) -- i'm looking for more of both. any recommendations? (i check daily but don't rss al-jazeera, haaretz, nyt world, jpost, times of israel, and slate/salon but there's too much chaff to get a full rss dump into my reeder.)

do you read josh landis, mordy? good stuff on syria

(his site still has syria tourism banner ads :-()

i won't visit anywhere that the BBC/NYT won't place reporters but one day i hope israel + syria have normalized relations and the country has peace bc i bet damascus is gorgeous (sadly they've burnt down their 2,000 yr old synagogue)

and i think i've seen josh landis from links but never really looked over the site. i'll def add it.

trying ios app now, not impressed.

:(

anyone used the feedbin web interface ON IPHONE since it became iphone compatible?

y u hate reeder?

I wish feedbin had some options to send to other services and such. Best part of Reeder is that it's basically a clearinghouse for me to send articles to Pocket or whatever other services.

seems like feedbin is adding that stuff.

I'm pretty settled w/ feedbin + reeder iPhone (and eventually maybe OSX).

Feedbin is a bit slow, doesn't get new feeds as fast as Reader, and reeder doesn't sync to it as fast as it did Reader. Hopefully just growing pains.

xp http://blog.feedbin.me/2013/04/25/sharing/

hate is a strong word...

reeder is a nice iphone app, but i assume the dev is a post ios arrival to macs, because the desktop version is not very polished or mac-like imo

Yeah, the Mac app is totally an iOS app crammed into AppKit

my feed reading is split 50/50 mac/phone, so i need both interfaces to be good. clearly reeder for desktop is not a priority and isn't going to be feedbinned by july 1 : (

feedbin web isn't awful, handily.

ON IPHONE?

No, on Mac. I'd use Reeder ON IPHONE

gute punkt

what a mess

I read feeds on many devices/platfoms. iPad, iPhone, home Mac, work Windows. So I need apps and browser based reading that syncs between them all. Preferbly giving me a choice of apps so I don't have to use something that I don't like.

How is the searching on all these new services? That was the read thing about google reader, I could basically search every feed I've ever scrolled through. A magnificent feature.

wait, so feed wrangler really doesn't have folders or something that could replace folders?

one of the interesting things i didn't know he was going to do was to make a podcast client too. he hasn't shipped it yet, but that page promises it

Nope, just smart folders, but no way am I going through writing rules to try and capture feeds that were already sorted into folders.

meh

How is the searching on all these new services? That was the read thing about google reader, I could basically search every feed I've ever scrolled through. A magnificent feature.

― Jeff, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nil on NewsBlur, now that you mention it. But I haven't missed it so far.

what are ilxor's fave geopolitical/foreign affairs rss feeds? i sub to Wired's Danger Room blog, Foreign Policy, Mind Matter & Politics, Nybooks.com, Ottomans + Zionists, and Elder of Ziyon (hasbara blog). i also have a bunch of world music feeds i sub to (NPR World, This is Africa, Afrobeat Blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa, one israeli song a day) -- i'm looking for more of both. any recommendations? (i check daily but don't rss al-jazeera, haaretz, nyt world, jpost, times of israel, and slate/salon but there's too much chaff to get a full rss dump into my reeder.)

Couple to add...

Global Guerillas - http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com - good analysis of trends in asymmetrical warfare, but tends to be heavily buzzword compliant (the past couple of months is all Bitcoin and "disruption"). Very good on recommending books, other info sources.

Adam Isaacson - various blogs linked from http://adamisacson.com - Isaacson is a director for the Washington Office on Latin America NGO and writes about Latin America security and human rights. I always read the week in review posts whenever possible.

Bodega Pop - http://bodegapop.blogspot.com - possibly my fave world music blog now..

Seems like GG doesn't get updated much anymore/is mainly a feeding mechanism for Dude's consulting services about "resilience" through gardening

might actually switch to feedly today

i still wish there was just one obvious this is the way to go thing out there.

at least in other categories it's like instapaper or pocket, kindle or ibooks

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/technology/personaltech/three-ways-feedly-outdoes-the-vanishing-google-reader.html

You have to sign into Feedly with an existing Google account.

no thanks

why?

i don't want to do that. it should be separate

You aren't giving them your Google password, you're logging into Google authentication and it sends them a token saying you are who you say you are.

It *is* separate, it just means that you trust Google with authentication and not a zillion other sites.

why are they being lazy fucks and not just letting me maker a feedly account?

one that doesn't need google anything

make, rather

i guess that sort of thing is coming before the 1st?

It's just as hard to set up google auth! You're basically saying "why are they letting me use a username/password I already have, which is as secure as Google can make it, instead of using their own system, which is as secure as a small company is going to do it and incur all of the baggage related to username/password maintenance"

basically this way they never have to put together a page to reset passwords, set up accounts, change passwords, etc. all of which they'd probably do less competently than google

like I get privacy fears from google knowing what services you use and them knowing your google account but idgaf

hahaha neither do i really

I mean, if you do, create a second google account. If you're really paranoid you can assume they can figure out if it's you in both accounts, but ehhhh

lol that kind of stuff doesn't bother me

I've been using Feedbin.me online with reeder iPhone for 2 weeks or so and have no complaints. Feedbin can be a bit slower to update than Reader, but now that I'm not looking at Reader, it's unlikely I'll not notice the delay, and hopefully feedbin will get faster. No plug-ins needed.

canned reeder and put the feedly icon on my homescreen. now just waiting for them to drop the google stuff

pretty happy w/feedbin, though there's a bug w/xhtml atom feeds that breaks images.

it's one dude tho isn't it?

Yeah, think so. But so's Pinboard and it's killing delicious

very true

feedbin won

it's one dude who is charging money and afaict holds y combinator in contempt

i looked at the site and then, yeah, not using it

if anyone wants a great new rss service i'll upload some xml files to a public folder on my dropbox account

if you pay me extra i'll tell you who paul graham is

So I installed Feedly yesterday and so far it seems great - I find it much better to look at and use than Google reader, in fact.

But I fed it my Google reader info, and I assume that it just starts following those feeds internally, right? Or is it just putting a wrapper over something that will also break on July 1st?

My last post was meant as a point I. It's favour btw markers

the thing with paid services is that people like them because supposedly that aspect of them guarantees they'll be around longer, but eh. we'll see if this lasts. whatever happens, i just don't feel like that thing is as credible as pinboard, perhaps at least in part because pinboard has become the market leader, in a way, for bookmarking and no way is feedbin a market leader, at least as far as i can see. (whereby "market leader" i really mean the service that people have settled on as the one to use for a given category)

david pogue had some article i was skimming where he said that feedly is that service, and i kinda agree, although things still are a bit up in the air perhaps.

anyway, whatever works for you. as long as we can read our rss feeds

we're the few, so we must stick together. people don't care about this shit

there doesn't really have to be a winner

lol

Liking feedly more but yeah, it needs a search engine.

how do you check your feeds on feedly when you're on somebody else's computer, or a work computer you're using temporarily.

install safari, then the extension

finally, log out, remove the extension, and uninstall safari

i thought i might've seen something about a web version, but it obviously doesn't exist yet

make sure to keep at least one ios device with you at all times

otherwise, a browswer extension

exactly. Feedbin it is for me.

not only does the web version not exist yet, neither does the API. It's all still google reader under the covers, ffs.

Feedbin is working on making it more like Reader. Originally I was annoyed that it had tags instead of folders, though I respect why tags can be more versatile. But the lefthand menu listed all the tags, followed by all the feeds and it seemed messy. Then they just introduced an option to hide all the feeds under their respective tags. Assuming you only have each feed get one tag, those tags now work exactly like folders in Google Reader. So I have tags based on different subjects and can click on them so I can just read all my "design" feeds or "music" feeds or "food" feeds or whatever.

nuked all my shit in reader and now i'm rss-less

feedly extension and app are installed, but until they switch over to their own backend i won't be using either of them

why would you do that?

it's his purity of spirit

Think I'm still going to go with non-syncing RSS for now. Still liking Vienna a lot.

It's not even primarily that I need a new app/site, in that I wasn't using a Google Reader app on my phone, I was using something with the terrible name of FeeddlerPro that uses the Reader API (and so the Reader database of what I've read and not). Are there any of these solutions that have actually convinced a developer other than themselves to build an app on their API? That would be a good start.

Hah, this has reminded me to check out what Feeddler themselves say - the last entry on their twitter is from 14th March and says "Feeddler will not go away with Google Reader. Stay tuned!" :/

OK, I've been ignoring this up until now, but I guess it's time to start figuring out a plan. Currently I used reeder on iphone/ipad for 95% of my RSS, with very occasional use of the google reader website. I'd like to carry on doing something similar (in particular, using reeder) - what's my best option?

I've been using feedbin.me for a month, sync'd to Reeder.

Reeder gets it's feed from feedbin. Everything works fine though it's a little slower to update.

Reeder says it's soon to (already?) be able to manage feeds on it's own, but that doesn't solve online viewing.

I'm 50/50 online/iPhone, so the feedbin/reeder combo has worked perfectly for me.

Feedbin works exactly like Google Reader for the most part, and looks nicer.

It costs 2 dollars a month.

it looks like feedly is emerging as a possible winner

I've switched to The Old Reader and it seems fine, though I don't like the look and feel as much as Google Reader. Should I be using Feedly instead?

All I really want is to read the feeds on one page -- I don't need search, or social, or favorites, or ANYTHING.

https://twitter.com/parislemon/status/339484235100467202

I just need something to support the apps I use. So far, that has been nothing.

Feedly doesn't have a web version, and is still Google Reader under the covers. As a replacement it seems pretty precarious to me, with barely a month to go.

I have been using Feedbin, but it is slower and it's a little bit buggy: it doesn't handle XHTML in Atom feeds well, and I've noticed some read/unread oddities (I often mark things unread to follow links later when online, and when I get online they've been marked read and are gone).

I also paid for NewsBlur today, and it's polling is much faster, but the web interface is massively over-engineered and not at all simple or straightforward.

Sigh. Bloody Google.

reeder on os x (not IPHONE) still not feedbin compatible, right?

Feedly doesn't have a web version

feedly.com? otm about the more serious issue though.

Nah, feedly.com needs to install an extension, and I can't/won't install those on every computer/browser I use.

Only iPhone Reeder is feedbin compatible, yea.

http://isgooglereaderdeadyet.com/

i figure i still have a solid 31 days of denial/procrastination time

fingers x'd that digg sorts one out like they hope to ...

http://www.newsbeuter.org/ btw

Do any of these replacements support password-protected feeds?

Subscribed to Newsblur about a month ago. Its not as quick as google and the apps aren't polished, but neither are horrible. Tried Feedly but as mentioned above, the lack of a webpage is a nonstarter for me.

Hmm - guess I'll wait a couple more weeks and hope, then, those all sound pretty unsatisfactory!

so... that means feedbin is the best desktop reader then?

So long as you don't want search

http://paidcontent.org/2013/06/04/feedly-partners-with-rss-apps-like-reeder-as-google-readers-end-draws-near/

bam

No Mr. Reader. I must be the only person to use that app.

Well, one of two at least.

God I hope this is good, they're cutting it fine.

What are feedly's advantages over feedbin?

Search is promised, which would be a big advantage. Also I'm still seeing shonky read-status changes with feedbin, which never happened with Reeder before.

For god's sake it makes you instal a browser extension to use it. Good luck checking your feeds from a stranger's computer.

I haven't seen any status issues with Feedbin. It's just a bit slow at times.

ATM I check my feeds at my home computer, on my phone, and on my work computer (in roughly that order, since the work computer blocks images and videos 9-5) - if it's just the first two then that's probably fine.

Feedbin's lag combined with not being able to configure whether viewing an article marks it as read on the web is really annoying - I'll flick through some and mark them as unread (for home) but whether Feedbin actually picks up on all of the actions is very variable.

I don't have that problem at all. I use Feedbin at work and home, and Reeder on my iphone. What's marked as read or unread or starred is sync'd throughout.

Am assuming that Reeder will also update Mac/iPad for Feedly. Never using that extension thing, me.

silvio rizzi said he would, but he does tend to do nothing at all (including respond to customer queries) for years on end, so

Fuck's sake. It turns out the feedbin is actually fine, it's just Reeder app that's buggy. There are thing completely missing from my feeds -- checking on the website and on feedbin itself shows they're still there, they just don't show in Reeder. So I switched to Newsblur, and it's pretty bad: forces you to scroll past a list of all your feeds before you get to your folders, and then basically doesn't work offline.

Given that Reeder has proved to be so buggy and Feedly is only going to support it and Newsify on iPhone, I'm now downloading Newsify. But this is all cutting it close.

OK, newsify is actually brilliant. Some good could come out of this, as I wouldn't even have tried it without Reeder messing up.

The Feedly extension (for Chrome, at least) is totally fine and easy to use (and uninstall). It takes seconds.

so we are currently in a situation where there is no combination of service and desktop app that works?

Feedly has apparently just transitioned to its own backend.

I'm in love with Newsify on the iPhone, haven't bothered on iPad yet. Desktop is still a shitshow, I'm blasted if I'm installing an extension that monitors every page I visit.

Feedbin's still working for me, Reeder on the iPhone.

What's wrong w/ The Old Reader?

No mobile apps

i dropped a jackson on feedbin, better be worth it

Feedbin and Reeder work fine for me. I've been using that combo for 2 months. It's a bit slower than it used to be but fine otherwise. And I like Feedbin's interface.

I really did like it, but the missing posts thing is a killer. You don't notice it unless you compare things across the site/Reeder, and then once you don't trust it to show you everything on a feed what's the point?

Is it the posts or the count? The count's always matched up for me - the site will occasionally be a bit laggy as regards listing (2) new articles for a feed and then there being three - until you do a full reload.

posts iirc

staying with google reader until this bizarre shitstorm gets sorted out, but i assume it'll be feedbin because i don't know how feedly is planning to make money (which usually means ads/soul selling)

It's the posts: I've had a couple of feeds where a post just wouldn't appear. It'd be there on the actual site's feed, and there on feedbin itself, but wouldn't show in Reeder. Or worse, would show and then vanish after a refresh.

the biggest problem with reeder is that silvio rizzi is clearly too busy to update it more often than once a year

And it's too gray. Gray on gray.

otm, also dark mode is essential

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121765-facebook-potentially-launching-its-own-take-on-google-reader

anybody tried/know anything about the BazQux Reader? $2/mo, is supported by the feeddler ipad/iphone app

lol no i don't

im gonna go out on a limb here and say don't use it

bazfux reader

i just added another blog to my reader subscriptions

Ah wonderful, the latest Feedly app update for Android doesn't appear to sync with my Windows versions.

I am curious about this... http://blog.digg.com/post/45355701332/were-building-a-reader

Okay, the lack of sync was because I needed to manually update my Firefox addons. It seems to be resolved now.

http://blog.digg.com/post/53203926175/digg-reader-update

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/19/feedly-cloud-platform/

Yeah, Feedly cloud is a noticeable improvement on the original addon. Much faster.

Now who can bring the search functionality?

I've had some syncing issues between devices with feedly cloud.

It's driving me crazy. What is read is not staying as read.

Ohhhh I noticed that, too. I thought it was just me doing something wrong. Ha.