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Unpopular retrospective opinion, but given how stagnant Reader was before its death, the boon of Reader Replacements to arrive on the scene after its demise was
by basch 6y ago
Unpopular retrospective opinion, but given how stagnant Reader was before its death, the boon of Reader Replacements to arrive on the scene after its demise was worth its disappearance. The race to be the replacement made a metric ton of competing products better.
- EamonnMR 6y agoWhich ones are your favorites?
- mvaliente2001 6y agohttps://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/
- perryizgr8 6y ago> how stagnant Reader was before its death That's a feature, not a bug. It was close to perfect, no pointless UI re-designs required. Fast, lightweight, no bs.
- basch 6y agoYes and no. By being the de facto standard and housing most of the people, it somewhat stifled innovation in the space. Sure there were a ton of front ends built over the top of it, and the space was vibrant, but it really shined after they were forced into the spotlight. It was like turning on a flashlight and spiders scattering everywhere. The scatter breathed new sustaining life into many many projects.
- vmladenov 6y agoDo you have a favorite? I have a Feedly account but I don’t use the site much, and the Reeder app added local subscriptions recently.
- sco1 6y agoI've been happily using Inoreader since the plug was pulled on Google Reader
- thelazyoxymoron 6y agoI tried a bunch of them (Inoreader, Feedly, Oldreader, ttRSS) before settling on FreshRSS. It has a beautiful interface, don't need to use a dedicated mobile client as the website works perfectly and is self-hosted. Marks all the boxes for me.
- Digit-Al 6y agoI tried a couple and ended up settling on Feedly.