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Dear God in Heaven please let them take him up on it. Now that I'm a few days into the new redesign my workflow has become 1. Read RSS feeds. 2. Research RSS fe

Dear God in Heaven please let them take him up on it. Now that I'm a few days into the new redesign my workflow has become 1. Read RSS feeds. 2. Research RSS feed readers.

ChuckMcM 15y ago
Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.
- ttonelli 15y ago
  I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable. Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc. I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...
  - armaanahluwalia 15y ago
    I don't know if this is considered blatent advertising or not. But I worked pretty hard on getting my chrome extension replacement for google reader done. I would love it if people would check it out. I made it because I couldn't stand the UI for Google Reader in the first place. I'm open to adding features like short cut keys ( fairly easy to implement) Please check it out at http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH
    - jfsurban 15y ago
      No way to import?
      - armaanahluwalia 15y ago
        I'm currently using JSON to hold feeds but creating a JSON string from OPML should be lemon squeezy... Great idea. Thank you.
    - jbigelow76 15y ago
      Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.
      - armaanahluwalia 15y ago
        Well I'm not sure how I can convince you other than to say it is quite like running another web page on your browser. Quite literally. Chrome extensions are built using HTML, CSS and Javascript just like anything else on the web. The reason I think this extension makes sense is purely because users should have control over the way in which they read and see content. I'm not a big fan of restrictions being imposed on us just because some designer somewhere thought that's the way it should be. I've built in an editor that let's you create your own viewing interface. Give it a shot!
- rmccue 15y ago
  What are you looking for in a reader? I develop one called Lilina, which aims to be pluggable and themeable, so I'd love to know what sort of things I should be focusing on. (If you'd like to check it out, http://getlilina.org/ http://getlilina.org/ )
  - kasbah 15y ago
    I like it! It is nice and simple. I hope you keep it that way. I think it will be replacing my Google Reader. Two features that would make it perfect for me: - Get rid of the sidebar completely and just allow to navigate through feeds with j and k keys. - Ability to save posts for later.
  - dsr_ 15y ago
    Here's my problem, and I recognize that it is my problem, not yours. As soon as I see that something was written in PHP, my prejudices announce that it is probably badly written and full of security holes.
  - Gmo 15y ago
    Does it handle smartphone/tablets correctly ? (my current online RSS reader is really not good at that)
  - mooism2 15y ago
    Can I try it out online without downloading and installing it?
- Kototama 15y ago
  The RSS reader of www.netvibes.com isn't that bad.
nemoniac 15y ago
This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent. Until recently Google Reader was just good enough but with the recent changes, it became just too painful. I'm not talking about the "social" features; I never used them. It was the poor layout and design, wasted real estate and especially the broken key shortcuts that did it. So now Google has lost access to all my RSS habits. It has also been a lesson to me in SaaS solutions (Software as a Service). When the provider can make substantial changes in their service at a whim, they can leave you high and dry. You're no better off than when you put yourself in the hands of a commercial software vendor or, dare I say it, Ubuntu :-) Now happily reading the HN feed and others through gnus...
morsch 15y ago
If you are 1) using Firefox and 2) a client-side RSS reader isn't a deal breaker, I would heartily recommend Brief%. It's a Firefox extension and, when I was looking around for RSS readers a year or two ago, it was the only one I found comfortable. It finally converted me to an RSS addict. Google Reader was all right, but I preferred a non-cloud solution, partly because I could manually refresh feeds and be certain they were up-to-date. No social features, and no straightforward way to sync across computers/devices, so it's not at all a replacement for Google Reader in its entirety. % https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
JayNeely 15y ago
I switched to http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com a while ago, and have been happy with it.

Dear God in Heaven please let them take him up on it. Now that I'm a few days into the new redesign my workflow has become 1. Read RSS feeds. 2. Research RSS feed readers.

ChuckMcM 15y ago

Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.

ttonelli 15y ago
I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable. Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc. I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...
- armaanahluwalia 15y ago
  I don't know if this is considered blatent advertising or not. But I worked pretty hard on getting my chrome extension replacement for google reader done. I would love it if people would check it out. I made it because I couldn't stand the UI for Google Reader in the first place. I'm open to adding features like short cut keys ( fairly easy to implement) Please check it out at http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH
  - jfsurban 15y ago
    No way to import?
    - armaanahluwalia 15y ago
      I'm currently using JSON to hold feeds but creating a JSON string from OPML should be lemon squeezy... Great idea. Thank you.
  - jbigelow76 15y ago
    Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.
    - armaanahluwalia 15y ago
      Well I'm not sure how I can convince you other than to say it is quite like running another web page on your browser. Quite literally. Chrome extensions are built using HTML, CSS and Javascript just like anything else on the web. The reason I think this extension makes sense is purely because users should have control over the way in which they read and see content. I'm not a big fan of restrictions being imposed on us just because some designer somewhere thought that's the way it should be. I've built in an editor that let's you create your own viewing interface. Give it a shot!
rmccue 15y ago
What are you looking for in a reader? I develop one called Lilina, which aims to be pluggable and themeable, so I'd love to know what sort of things I should be focusing on. (If you'd like to check it out, http://getlilina.org/ http://getlilina.org/ )
- kasbah 15y ago
  I like it! It is nice and simple. I hope you keep it that way. I think it will be replacing my Google Reader. Two features that would make it perfect for me: - Get rid of the sidebar completely and just allow to navigate through feeds with j and k keys. - Ability to save posts for later.
- dsr_ 15y ago
  Here's my problem, and I recognize that it is my problem, not yours. As soon as I see that something was written in PHP, my prejudices announce that it is probably badly written and full of security holes.
- Gmo 15y ago
  Does it handle smartphone/tablets correctly ? (my current online RSS reader is really not good at that)
- mooism2 15y ago
  Can I try it out online without downloading and installing it?
Kototama 15y ago
The RSS reader of www.netvibes.com isn't that bad.

nemoniac 15y ago

This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent. Until recently Google Reader was just good enough but with the recent changes, it became just too painful. I'm not talking about the "social" features; I never used them. It was the poor layout and design, wasted real estate and especially the broken key shortcuts that did it. So now Google has lost access to all my RSS habits. It has also been a lesson to me in SaaS solutions (Software as a Service). When the provider can make substantial changes in their service at a whim, they can leave you high and dry. You're no better off than when you put yourself in the hands of a commercial software vendor or, dare I say it, Ubuntu :-) Now happily reading the HN feed and others through gnus...

morsch 15y ago

If you are 1) using Firefox and 2) a client-side RSS reader isn't a deal breaker, I would heartily recommend Brief%. It's a Firefox extension and, when I was looking around for RSS readers a year or two ago, it was the only one I found comfortable. It finally converted me to an RSS addict. Google Reader was all right, but I preferred a non-cloud solution, partly because I could manually refresh feeds and be certain they were up-to-date. No social features, and no straightforward way to sync across computers/devices, so it's not at all a replacement for Google Reader in its entirety. % https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

JayNeely 15y ago

I switched to http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com a while ago, and have been happy with it.