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>miss Google Reader Feedly

nawtacawp 9y ago
I use Reeder on my iPad and add RSS feeds individually to the app. There is a section where I can add a Feedly account to the app. Does that provide any advantages over directly adding the RSS feeds?
- ronjouch 9y ago
  Syncing: read stuff in bed on your iPad/Reeder, get up, login to www.feedly.com and find your unread list in the same state. Other than that, feedly offers a few features you might be interested in: search, filters, alerts, highlights, etc.
tzahola 9y ago
Feedly is a load of crap. They are force-feeding (no pun intended) you their “””curated””” (read: sponsored) news sources while making it intentionally hard to add your own sources. Last time I’ve checked there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually - you have to “search” for the given site, and hope that their magic algorithm picks up the presence of an RSS feed... Absolutely useless.
- SteveMoody73 9y ago
  Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL. I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasional banner message up the top which is easily dismissed. edit: I have by default feedly set to my "all" feed and in that respect it works much like google reader used to.
  - tzahola 9y ago
    I’m using the Feedly iOS app. I went to “Add content”, and it opened a sidebar with a searchbox which supposedly lets you “search” for content by “title, URL or #topic”. I’ve entered the URL of the archive.org feed ( http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php ) and it says: “No sources found. If you are looking for a specific site, please enter the full URL.”
    - degradas 9y ago
      Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.
- hasbot 9y ago
  I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader went away. It's easy to add my own sources. I don't know anything about force-fed news sources; I've never seen anything like that.
- konart 9y ago
  >there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually That's not true at all. At least in the web version this was an option from the very beginning.
- thefringthing 9y ago
  Pasting the feed URL into the search box works 100% of the time.
- samschooler 9y ago
  No, it is actually a RSS reader. It just tries to solve the information overload problem by curating the news sources for you. If you have a small number of sources you still can get to all of the information. In order to add a feed, just paste in the rss link and its in your reader.

I use Reeder on my iPad and add RSS feeds individually to the app. There is a section where I can add a Feedly account to the app. Does that provide any advantages over directly adding the RSS feeds?

ronjouch 9y ago
Syncing: read stuff in bed on your iPad/Reeder, get up, login to www.feedly.com and find your unread list in the same state. Other than that, feedly offers a few features you might be interested in: search, filters, alerts, highlights, etc.

tzahola 9y ago

Feedly is a load of crap. They are force-feeding (no pun intended) you their “””curated””” (read: sponsored) news sources while making it intentionally hard to add your own sources. Last time I’ve checked there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually - you have to “search” for the given site, and hope that their magic algorithm picks up the presence of an RSS feed... Absolutely useless.

SteveMoody73 9y ago
Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL. I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasional banner message up the top which is easily dismissed. edit: I have by default feedly set to my "all" feed and in that respect it works much like google reader used to.
- tzahola 9y ago
  I’m using the Feedly iOS app. I went to “Add content”, and it opened a sidebar with a searchbox which supposedly lets you “search” for content by “title, URL or #topic”. I’ve entered the URL of the archive.org feed ( http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php ) and it says: “No sources found. If you are looking for a specific site, please enter the full URL.”
  - degradas 9y ago
    Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.
hasbot 9y ago
I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader went away. It's easy to add my own sources. I don't know anything about force-fed news sources; I've never seen anything like that.
konart 9y ago
>there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually That's not true at all. At least in the web version this was an option from the very beginning.
thefringthing 9y ago
Pasting the feed URL into the search box works 100% of the time.
samschooler 9y ago
No, it is actually a RSS reader. It just tries to solve the information overload problem by curating the news sources for you. If you have a small number of sources you still can get to all of the information. In order to add a feed, just paste in the rss link and its in your reader.