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I've been using http://theoldreader.com http://theoldreader.com ever since. As the name implies, it does a pretty good job of mimicking Google Reader.

xaduha 11y ago
https://digg.com/reader https://digg.com/reader does the job for me. It's probably even better than Google Reader was.
- 1123581321 11y ago
  Digg Reader is good, but it has issues showing the correct list of unread items.
- vardhanw 11y ago
  http://www.inoreader.com/ http://www.inoreader.com/ works for me as it gives a minimalist list view and also has a decent android app.
  - mih 11y ago
    I second this. Inoreader's UI is much better than Google reader ever was. Being a free user, I am still unable to explore much of the functionality they offer, but I hope to be a subscriber soon.
  - pantulis 11y ago
    This. Inoreader's UI reminds me a lot of goold old Bloglines!
- finchisko 11y ago
  Same for me. Digg reader is now so good, that I can no more say if Google Reader was better or not. Even if google relaunches Google Reader, I will not use it. After they killed Reader I've realized how important is not to bet all on one company and nowadays I prefered diversification (dropbox, digg, spotify) rather then all in one.
saturn_vk 11y ago
I wrote my own reader after giving feedly a brief try https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef Though it only fits my needs
thomasahle 11y ago
Just read the features of the pro version: "1 year of post storage, up to 1000 posts per feed" I totally forgot Google Reader would store feeds forever, so you could search back in time. That was actually an amazing feature.
- icebraining 11y ago
  Feature which is still available to those who self host :) My TinyTinyRSS database has 359533 posts stored, taking a whooping 559MB. I frankly don't get why they have such low limits to paying customers. Storing a whole 1GB on S3 would cost them just 3¢ of the monthly $3. Unless they also scrape images from posts...?
- avian 11y ago
  "1 year/1000 posts" refers only to unread posts, which makes sense to me. If you have thousands of unread posts, chances are you don't care that much about them. I'm not sure what their policy on read posts is. I'm a premium user and a quick search shows up a (read, but not liked or shared) post from 2011. It says here that liked and shared posts are stored forever: https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/146276-how-many-posts-per-feed-do-you-store https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/14...
wccrawford 11y ago
Since this seems to be the thread for alternatives... Someone at the time of Reader's demise recommended Selfoss, and I've been running it ever since. It's not quite as good, but it does what I wanted from Reader.
- charliedevolve 11y ago
  I also use Selfoss, it does what I need it to. Although the author's decision to override the Space key is odd. I comment that part of the JS and let the aggregated js regenerate to return that behavior to the browser.
henrik_w 11y ago
+1 for the old reader - works well for me too.
trextrex 11y ago
I really like the privacy features of TheOldReader.com -- especially their commitment so far to have no tracking (with cookies etc.) or user data harvesting to serve ads. They do have some select sponsored ads for the free-tier, but done without any such tracking [1]. [1] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-old-reader http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-o...
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xaduha 11y ago

https://digg.com/reader https://digg.com/reader does the job for me. It's probably even better than Google Reader was.

1123581321 11y ago
Digg Reader is good, but it has issues showing the correct list of unread items.
vardhanw 11y ago
http://www.inoreader.com/ http://www.inoreader.com/ works for me as it gives a minimalist list view and also has a decent android app.
- mih 11y ago
  I second this. Inoreader's UI is much better than Google reader ever was. Being a free user, I am still unable to explore much of the functionality they offer, but I hope to be a subscriber soon.
- pantulis 11y ago
  This. Inoreader's UI reminds me a lot of goold old Bloglines!
finchisko 11y ago
Same for me. Digg reader is now so good, that I can no more say if Google Reader was better or not. Even if google relaunches Google Reader, I will not use it. After they killed Reader I've realized how important is not to bet all on one company and nowadays I prefered diversification (dropbox, digg, spotify) rather then all in one.

saturn_vk 11y ago

I wrote my own reader after giving feedly a brief try https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef Though it only fits my needs

thomasahle 11y ago

Just read the features of the pro version: "1 year of post storage, up to 1000 posts per feed" I totally forgot Google Reader would store feeds forever, so you could search back in time. That was actually an amazing feature.

icebraining 11y ago
Feature which is still available to those who self host :) My TinyTinyRSS database has 359533 posts stored, taking a whooping 559MB. I frankly don't get why they have such low limits to paying customers. Storing a whole 1GB on S3 would cost them just 3¢ of the monthly $3. Unless they also scrape images from posts...?
avian 11y ago
"1 year/1000 posts" refers only to unread posts, which makes sense to me. If you have thousands of unread posts, chances are you don't care that much about them. I'm not sure what their policy on read posts is. I'm a premium user and a quick search shows up a (read, but not liked or shared) post from 2011. It says here that liked and shared posts are stored forever: https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/146276-how-many-posts-per-feed-do-you-store https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/14...

wccrawford 11y ago

Since this seems to be the thread for alternatives... Someone at the time of Reader's demise recommended Selfoss, and I've been running it ever since. It's not quite as good, but it does what I wanted from Reader.

charliedevolve 11y ago
I also use Selfoss, it does what I need it to. Although the author's decision to override the Space key is odd. I comment that part of the JS and let the aggregated js regenerate to return that behavior to the browser.

henrik_w 11y ago

+1 for the old reader - works well for me too.

trextrex 11y ago

I really like the privacy features of TheOldReader.com -- especially their commitment so far to have no tracking (with cookies etc.) or user data harvesting to serve ads. They do have some select sponsored ads for the free-tier, but done without any such tracking [1]. [1] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-old-reader http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/113273709664/sponsor-the-o...

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