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Awaits the "Best alternatives to Reader" post appearing on HN

• bostonvaulter2 15y ago
  http://newsblur.com http://newsblur.com
  • vertr 15y ago
    It's nice that newsblur is maintained by a HNer, but the aesthetics of it are a real turn off for me.
    • conesus 15y ago
      It's pretty minimal. Notice you don't even see a logo when you're reading sites. The dashboard is a bit dense, but the browsing experience can be customized.
    • natesm 15y ago
      This isn't exactly the best first impression ever: http://i.imgur.com/r2vwo.png http://i.imgur.com/r2vwo.png
      • conesus 15y ago
        You have a skinny window. Resize by 200 pixels and it'll grow.
      • conesus 15y ago
        Went ahead and fixed that: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/658a15701af7b641d7bc5a3d20af241709cf3b8b https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/658a15701af7b6...
        • natesm 15y ago
          Thank you!
  • jarek 15y ago
    Really confused as to why "read the original site" is a feature. Getting mainly text, without the original site's design, is one of the best features of RSS to me.
    • masklinn 15y ago
      > Really confused as to why "read the original site" is a feature. Because the reader does not display images or resizes them, because it's an interesting blog post which probably has interesting comments, because the blog tends to be very well formatted, because there's a video or a slides deck embedded which simply does not appear in the reader, ... I quite often make use of this feature in Reeder.
• ukdm 15y ago
  6 alts http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3136650 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3136650