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I'm still sore about Google Reader. I haven't found another reader that has quite found the right UX to replace it.

xeno42 9y ago
https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ was the closest i found in terms of UI and performance with the amount of feeds/items i go through (~1000 items/day) - Been pretty happy with it since Google Reader shutdown
- jacquesm 9y ago
  How on earth do you manage to keep up with 1000 items / day? I barely manage 1/10th of that and I'm a pretty fast reader. Please enlighten me, it sounds like you hold a secret that would substantially improve my life.
  - corndoge 9y ago
    Reading 1000 things a day would probably make me suicidal
  - xeno42 9y ago
    I don't read 1000/day, but I do step through 1,000 - I scan a headline/summary, hit "j" and move on for the vast majority of them. Some i'll star and come back to later, for others the first sentence of the summary is really enough to learn something about what's going on.. eg "vulnerability found in XYZ" is useful to tuck away in the back of my mind, but that's all i need. Others are the same story reported by multiple sources; obvious from the headline. I leave it open in a pinned tab and when i want to kill a minute or two, i'll scan through a few more posts and open a few to actually read. The reason i like Bazqux is that it can keep up no matter how fast i hit "j". It's no prettier than Google Reader does, has few more bells/whistles, but if you really want to speed through items, save and search, it's great. In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.
    - jacquesm 9y ago
      Thank you! > In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that. About a decade ago - when the state of the art really wasn't up to it yet - I invested some money in a start-up that was attempting to achieve just that. They eventually turned to greener pastures and are still alive but I am still hopeful that someone will manage to put this together. I'd be more than happy to pay for such a thing.
      - nthcolumn 9y ago
        Which reminds me of another dead product I used to use to do exactly this: Yahoo Pipes.
angus-g 9y ago
NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com/ https://newsblur.com/) is not quite the same, but it fits the bill for me.
devindotcom 9y ago
Same here, but I've used Digg Reader (yes) for a long time after trying a few and it's been great. Depends on how you like it of course.
duncan_bayne 9y ago
Are you an Emacs user? My journey was Google Reader -> Newsblur -> elfeed (on Emacs). I only abandoned Newsblur because of an ongoing project to Emacsify my digital life.
- balladeer 9y ago
  Now I will have to look for the Vim alternative.
  - duncan_bayne 9y ago
    Have you heard of Evil? https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil IMO - and I speak as someone who loves Emacs so much he has email, organisation, TODOs, calendaring, IRC, RSS and more in Emacs - vi actually does a better job of the mechanics of text editing. Evil gives you the best of both worlds - the Emacs platform, and vi editing.
aquilax 9y ago
InoReader https://www.inoreader.com/ https://www.inoreader.com/ is the closest I've found to Google Reader. Happily using it for several years already.
dogofthunder 9y ago
I use https://theoldreader.com https://theoldreader.com, it seems to work quite well, and I've been using it since Google Reader shut down.
- simpleigh 9y ago
  I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. There's even a working Windows Phone app (TORUC) for those of us still avoiding Apple or Google. I've taken out a subscription in the hope that it will last longer than Google Reader or Bloglines (anybody remember that?).
  - myfonj 9y ago
    YES! Been using Bloglines as long as possible. It took Google Reader quite a while to outperform Bloglines back then. Last I checked alternatives, I liked g2reader.com slightly better than theoldreader.com, though I use it just very occasionally.
real-hacker 9y ago
Yeah, why don't they just open source it, and hand it to the community?

https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ was the closest i found in terms of UI and performance with the amount of feeds/items i go through (~1000 items/day) - Been pretty happy with it since Google Reader shutdown

jacquesm 9y ago
How on earth do you manage to keep up with 1000 items / day? I barely manage 1/10th of that and I'm a pretty fast reader. Please enlighten me, it sounds like you hold a secret that would substantially improve my life.
- corndoge 9y ago
  Reading 1000 things a day would probably make me suicidal
- xeno42 9y ago
  I don't read 1000/day, but I do step through 1,000 - I scan a headline/summary, hit "j" and move on for the vast majority of them. Some i'll star and come back to later, for others the first sentence of the summary is really enough to learn something about what's going on.. eg "vulnerability found in XYZ" is useful to tuck away in the back of my mind, but that's all i need. Others are the same story reported by multiple sources; obvious from the headline. I leave it open in a pinned tab and when i want to kill a minute or two, i'll scan through a few more posts and open a few to actually read. The reason i like Bazqux is that it can keep up no matter how fast i hit "j". It's no prettier than Google Reader does, has few more bells/whistles, but if you really want to speed through items, save and search, it's great. In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    Thank you! > In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that. About a decade ago - when the state of the art really wasn't up to it yet - I invested some money in a start-up that was attempting to achieve just that. They eventually turned to greener pastures and are still alive but I am still hopeful that someone will manage to put this together. I'd be more than happy to pay for such a thing.
    - nthcolumn 9y ago
      Which reminds me of another dead product I used to use to do exactly this: Yahoo Pipes.

angus-g 9y ago

NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com/ https://newsblur.com/) is not quite the same, but it fits the bill for me.

devindotcom 9y ago

Same here, but I've used Digg Reader (yes) for a long time after trying a few and it's been great. Depends on how you like it of course.

duncan_bayne 9y ago

Are you an Emacs user? My journey was Google Reader -> Newsblur -> elfeed (on Emacs). I only abandoned Newsblur because of an ongoing project to Emacsify my digital life.

balladeer 9y ago
Now I will have to look for the Vim alternative.
- duncan_bayne 9y ago
  Have you heard of Evil? https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil IMO - and I speak as someone who loves Emacs so much he has email, organisation, TODOs, calendaring, IRC, RSS and more in Emacs - vi actually does a better job of the mechanics of text editing. Evil gives you the best of both worlds - the Emacs platform, and vi editing.

aquilax 9y ago

InoReader https://www.inoreader.com/ https://www.inoreader.com/ is the closest I've found to Google Reader. Happily using it for several years already.

dogofthunder 9y ago

I use https://theoldreader.com https://theoldreader.com, it seems to work quite well, and I've been using it since Google Reader shut down.

simpleigh 9y ago
I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. There's even a working Windows Phone app (TORUC) for those of us still avoiding Apple or Google. I've taken out a subscription in the hope that it will last longer than Google Reader or Bloglines (anybody remember that?).
- myfonj 9y ago
  YES! Been using Bloglines as long as possible. It took Google Reader quite a while to outperform Bloglines back then. Last I checked alternatives, I liked g2reader.com slightly better than theoldreader.com, though I use it just very occasionally.

real-hacker 9y ago

Yeah, why don't they just open source it, and hand it to the community?