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Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26
- rb808 9y agoIts becoming a habit. Any good alternatives?
- empyrical 9y agoI've been using Feedly since Google Reader died. Curious if there are any other good ones - I miss GReader's ability to have subcategories for example, and am curious if there's a service that supports this
- Phlogistique 9y agoI use Newsblur which fits the bill. It has subcategories and stuff. Other people use The old reader which looks and feels like the old Google Reader.
- empyrical 9y agoThat looks pretty good! Does anyone know if there are any Android apps that interface with Newsblur like BeyondPod can with Feedly?
- romdev 9y agoI'm assuming you mean podcasting apps. I would also use one if it exists. There's no way I'm switching from Newsblur, but curious: does Feedly store your last listened position, so you can switch from phone to desktop like you can with Audible?
- greglindahl 9y agoI'm a very happy paying customer of Newsblur, it does what I want to do: read 100% of a bunch of feeds, using any device that I own.
- y03a 9y agoI've been using Newsbeuter but my needs are very minimal.
- eisa01 9y agoI’ve been using Inoreader for the past months, switching from NetNewsWire. It’s a web app, so now I have access outside of my Mac as well Best part is that you can create a random email address to sign up to e.g., email notifications from organizations that don’t have RSS. This requires their 50 USD plan, but I’m just glad to support them!
- jcbrand 9y agoI self-host Selfoss (since about 3 years), pretty happy with it. https://www.selfoss.aditu.de/ https://www.selfoss.aditu.de/
- stunthamsterio 9y agoI quite like feedbin.com. Simple, straightforward and reasonably priced.
- archagon 9y agoExtremely happy with Feedbin ever since Reader shut down. And it keeps getting better.
- dewey 9y agohttps://miniflux.net https://miniflux.net if you like Go and hosting it yourself, there's also a hosted version that's paid though.
- nathcd 9y agoIf you're cool with paid[0] or self-hosted[1], I've heard Newsblur is nice. [0] https://newsblur.com/ https://newsblur.com/ [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
- teilo 9y agoAnother +1 for Newsblur. I have been a paid user ever since Google Reader shut down. Its design goal was to fill just that gap, so for those who loved the workflow of Reader, Newsblur was the obvious choice. Of course, it has far exceeded Reader's feature set since then. It has had some performance issues in the past, but the developer was quick to respond to them.
- Nrbelex 9y agoNewsblur is indeed great. It is under active development, the developer is responsive to bug reports, the mobile apps are good (if not gorgeous), and there are some innovative features, such as the ability to train Newsblur to sort certain posts into a "focus" list. Plus I consider the fact that it operates using a freemium model a great benefit as there are no ads, it is less likely to close shop out of the blue, and it is less likely to be selling user data to support itself.
- WorldMaker 9y agoNewsBlur is nice. (I'm a very happy paid user.) It's social features are close to what was lost when Google shutdown their Reader. (The biggest thing lacking is how big the community was in GReader's heyday, but that was a rare lightning in a bottle and not NewsBlur's fault.) As a paid customer I know that I'm a customer of NewsBlur, they expect to keep my business, and Samuel Clay has been very good over the years about listening to customer and community feedback.
- romdev 9y ago+1 vote for Newsblur. I was using Google Reader start to finish and also tried several others before settling on Newsblur. It's perfect in almost every way, but has a curious/arbitrary number of stories preserved per feed, sometimes 200, sometimes 500. I haven't figured out if it's an option, or an algorithm.
- tschellenbach 9y agoWinds 2.0 is open source and will be release this April: https://github.com/getstream/winds https://github.com/getstream/winds
- aag 9y agoI'm very happy with Blogtrottr, which turns feeds into email. It has flexible delivery options, e.g. digests, plain text vs. HTML, and sort order. Best of all, receiving posts via email means I don't have to check yet another app.
- acemarke 9y agoBazQux Reader: https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com It's just like the old Google Reader, but 1) still alive, and 2) $20/yr subscription. Absolutely worth it.
- aqtrans 9y agoAfter trying a few of the others after Google Reader shut down, I settled on https://tt-rss.org/ https://tt-rss.org/. It has an official Android client and quite a few iOS clients as well.
- cpeterso 9y agoFeedly is nice on desktop web site and mobile app, though it is missing some of the social features of Google Reader and some functionality can be more difficult to find in the UI than it should be.
- fernly 9y agoSince the google debacle I've been using RSS Owl on my Macbook pro. It works. http://www.rssowl.org/ http://www.rssowl.org/
- splitbrain 9y agoI can't recommend inoreader.com enough. A worthy successor to Google reader. (I am not affiliated, just a happy user)
- fiveFeet 9y agoWould you recommend it compared to feedly?
- splitbrain 9y agoI tried feedly shortly after Google Reader shut down but didn't like it much then. Don't know how it is nowadays. Inoreader is very close to the Google Reader experience without being a 1:1 clone.
- wesrey 9y agoI just tried it from seeing you mention it. I like how it more closely resembled what I was familar w/ re: Google Reader and Digg Reader. I think I've bought some more time with this one, thanks.
- dddw 9y agounlimited feeds? wow, what is there business model?
- gamedna 9y agoDisappointed that their exit strategy did not include open-sourcing their RSS Reader and letting someone else carry the torch. "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
- geofftrojans 9y agoWhat is the downside to doing this? Seems like a no-brainer.
- lacker 9y agoTypically it is a whole lot of work to open source a private service, because the code is intermingled with code for stuff that you either want to keep private, or would be impossible to get working outside of your environment.
- gamedna 9y agoYou are assuming that they will release a turn-key working product. Its possible for them to just release key parts that are unique. For example: https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source This game designer only open-sourced his code for the player object. As I am not a seasoned game developer I have enjoyed going through this code and learning some of the techniques. Maybe Digg can help bring up the next generation based on their techniques. Or maybe it helps foster a discussion around how not to implement something.
- tobek 9y agoThe downside to this is that it's hard. This kind of service requires a sprawling infrastructure with many dozens of servers and tens of thousands of dollars in costs per month. And the amount of programming work to take that code-base and make it just work, plug-and-play, on someone else's machine for individual use, or in a larger set-up for shared use, is pretty serious. Not to mention that the many individual services powering such a service are often reused and tangled up in other (critical) services run by a company, and it's not always possible to separate out the intellectual property. This is only a sampling of the issues - open-sourcing huge projects is actually much trickier than you might think!
- TekMol 9y agoI never really understood how Digg managed to fuck up completely and never return to the battlefield. Any body here who knows what happened?
- zitterbewegung 9y agoIf you alienate your userbase there is no turning back for a social media site. The power user change made everyone flock to reddit.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoThis Digg has almost nothing to do with the original. All this Digg did was buy the name and build a competent news portal around it.
- ForHackernews 9y agoWatch closely and you'll get to see Reddit do it in real time over the next 2-3 years.
- Grue3 9y agoThere needs to be an acceptable alternative for everyone to migrate to. The general public won't move to the likes of voat or imzy (which apparently already shut down).
- BlackLotus89 9y agoDigg changed the design (to digg v4) and interface and alienated it's userbase (august 2010). After years of other poor decisions this broke the camels back. Digg was then flooded with links to reddit. Reddit was there and caught all the users that all looked for a new home to "migrate" to. After a month 30% digg users or so moved to reddit and the rest is history. Let's see what happens when reddit tries to do a redesign ;)
- krrrh 9y agoReddit has actually been slowly lurching towards revealing a redesign for the last couple of months. To be honest they seem almost too paranoid about not messing things up to the point where it feels like progress has been at a standstill for years. They’re doing a lot of previews [1], and getting a lot of feedback from users, but I still feel that the sort of power users who engage with a process like this might end up helping them design a Homer that blindsides a lot of people. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/7ul5k9/hey_were_here_to_talk_about_that_desktop_redesign/ https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/7ul5k9/hey_were_here_...
- tschellenbach 9y agoWe're working on V2 of Winds, a beautiful open source RSS Reader and Podcast app based on React/Redux and Stream. Release of V2 will be this April: https://github.com/getstream/winds https://github.com/getstream/winds
- vshabanov 9y agoCan't resist to recommend my own BazQux Reader https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com It's a paid feed reader (so if you like to move between closing free readers every few years it's not for you).
- scarface74 9y agoI see it can import OPML files but not export.
- vshabanov 9y agoSettings menu (in top right corner) => Subscriptions => Export OPML. Or just bazqux.com/opml
- phonon 9y agoCurrent customer, really happy with it, though I wonder if there are any new features in the pipeline...?
- vshabanov 9y agoAlmost finished mobile version of site (you could check it in beta.bazqux.com -- landing page/menus are not ready yet, but the reading itself is more or less OK). Planning to add feeds management and reading statistics, themes, bookmarking, improved sharing, mailing lists support, many little things and to open source it.
- phonon 9y agoMobile view is great--thanks!
- sigsergv 9y agoBazQux is great indeed, really worth every paid buck.
- rsoto 9y agoFor some weird reason, after Google Reader shut down, I tried several RSS readers, including OldReader, the AOL one (I think) and Digg Reader. As I used to visit Digg quite often (it's not the crowdsourcing site anymore, but an editorial-based one) because of its content, I stuck with it. It started ok—what you would expect from a feed reader. It was clean, it updated quite often, it was good. But three or so years ago, it started to look stale. No new features, and worse: the count read was wrong, and often it would mark your items as read. It was clunky and unreliable, late last year I moved to feedly and haven't look back. The lesson here is that maybe there's no model for a free hosted RSS reader. Google found out, and then some others. And that's not good for an open web.
- CalRobert 9y agoIt's not ideal, but maybe it's OK inasmuch as I use a local RSS reader (feedbro) perfectly happily. It works, it's not beholden to another company, and its feature set will remain the same as long as I choose not to upgrade it.
- eugenv 9y agoI'm going to swoop in and recommend (read: shameless plug) my own RSS reader, Zuperlist. It's trying to do things a little differently: it prioritizes topics the user cares about. More details are on the home page: https://www.zuperlist.com https://www.zuperlist.com
- jashkenas 9y agoAnd so the wheel turns... Some choice quotes from the launch of Digg Reader: > "Free products on the Internet don’t have a great track record. They tend to disappear, leaving users in a lurch. We need to build a product that people can rely on and trust will always be there for them." [0] From a Wired slobbery puff piece: > "The Digg team certainly has a shot at cracking that nut; their progress so far is astonishing, and their relentless enthusiasm makes you almost believe they can accomplish anything. But they also might melt the wax on their wings, come crashing down into the hard crust of the real world, and lose an astonishing amount of money. It almost doesn’t matter." [1] From Gizmodo: > "Where Google set us adrift, Digg threw us a life-preserver. While it's exciting to see what the future might hold, right now, it's nice enough just to have our heads above water." [2] And the prize for winning HN comment from 2013 goes to @nothxbro: > "It looks good, but I am wary of using any of these guys stuff based on how fast they 'pivot' and shut things down." [3] 0: http://blog.digg.com/post/49264812779/were-still-learning http://blog.digg.com/post/49264812779/were-still-learning 1: https://www.wired.com/2013/06/inside_digg_reader/ https://www.wired.com/2013/06/inside_digg_reader/ 2: https://gizmodo.com/digg-reader-hands-on-your-google-reader-life-raft-is-h-530930770 https://gizmodo.com/digg-reader-hands-on-your-google-reader-... 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5894290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5894290
- rb808 9y agoto be fair they did a good job, was fully functional quickly. I've had 5 good years with no ads.
- emit_time 9y agoI'm using Feedbin for now. Tried hosting miniflux 2.0 but there seem to be a few bugs at the moment.
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- luminarious 9y agoWhy can't they just charge for it?
- AndrewDucker 9y agoThis is why I'm very happy to pay Feedly money. They keep track of my RSS feeds and give a nice API so I can use my app of choice to read them (or the web interface). And because I pay them, it's in their interests not to fuck it up by trying to be too clever.
- CaptSpify 9y agoThis is why I enjoy hosting my own reader (https://tt-rss.org/ https://tt-rss.org/). But I do wish I could find one with a CLI interface.
- rinze 9y agoI have my own ttRSS too, and for a small netbook I have I use newsbeuter[1]. I specially like it because it syncs with ttRSS, so all the feeds and read statuses are kept centralized. [1] https://newsbeuter.org/ https://newsbeuter.org/
- CaptSpify 9y agoThis looks awesome, thanks for the heads up! And thoughts on this vs newsboat[1] which claims that newsbeuter isn't being updated anymore? [1] https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
- rinze 9y agoI didn't know about it, but you're absolutely right. Newsbeuter has a notice on their README file to that effect and they recommend newsboat[1]. Newsbeuter works fine for me for now, but it's good knowing that. I'm glad I saved your comment in the morning so I could reply later at work :D [1] https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/blob/master/README....
- guybedo 9y agonever used digg reader, switched from google reader to feedly and now i've switched from feedly to my own news aggregator / rss reader: aktu (http://aktu.io http://aktu.io). It's currently a beta version, and i'd love to have some feedback :-) thanks !
- bouncingsoul 9y agoI consider Digg Reader a perfect web app. It's simple, free, featureful and has a stark beauty to it Like everyone else, I had to find a replacement for Google Reader, so I tried a lot of them (even paid ones). Digg Reader was the only one that exactly matched how I used Google Reader — and in fact, I like it even better now. Not looking forward to finding a replacement.
- linhuiwu 9y agocan't understand why they must shut down.
- ksec 9y ago50+ Comments and dozen of alternative named, not a single mention of feedly? I thought it was the Google Reader in modern era.
- pk78 9y agoAny suggestions for alternatives? I tried Inoreader, Feedly, Old reader - didn't like any of them! :( Been using Digg for several years now and would like something similar to this!
- finchisko 9y agoSame here. Just gave quick tour for both of them and don't like them at all. TheOldReader UI with crazy spacing between elements drives me crazy. Feedly on other hand wastes too much space. Will not use none of them as replacement.
- sewalsh 9y agoDevoted feedly user here. If you switch to 'Title only-view' and switch the display density to 'condensed' in the settings (Click user profile pic --> Settings --> Appearance), I think that should solve your annoyances. I too hate needless spacing between elements.
- pk78 9y agoI was able to get Inoreader to visually look very similar to Digg reader. I do not want to use Feedly yet because the free version seems to too restricted. I'll try using Inoreader for few days before I make a decision.
- guybedo 9y agonever tried Digg, quite liked Feedly, and now i'm using something i built, aktu (http://aktu.io http://aktu.io). Yes it's a shameless plug :-) but i would really love to have some feedback if you have some time to spare. Thanks!
- xtiansimon 9y agoAny solutions to save Saved bookmarks?
- sangupta 9y agoI just published a command-line tool for the same: https://github.com/sangupta/digg-reader-dump https://github.com/sangupta/digg-reader-dump