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That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. Sad to see it go. What do you guys recommend for replacement? I know about NewsBlur [1], but I

by klausa 14y ago

That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. Sad to see it go. What do you guys recommend for replacement? I know about NewsBlur [1], but I never liked it that much. I think I'm just looking for something that would emulate Reader's full-screen view as close as possible. [1] http://newsblur.com http://newsblur.com edit: Here's what I consider an absolute must-have in RSS app: - complete navigation with keyboard (j/k preferred) - full screen mode (really, I don't need a sidebar of a fixed header all the time) - feed view (not just list of items, show me excerpts!) And I know I may be the weird one, but I really, really dislike readers that try to show me items directly from feeds webpage. I find it jarring and distracting when I have five totally different layouts flash before my eyes within 10 seconds (I skim headlines and then skip most of items in my feed). And for the love of god, please, please, no goddamn 'WE LEARN WHAT YOU LIKE' or any kind of bullshit 'smart selection'. I selected my feeds myself, I can manage them just fine by myself, just get out of my way, please.

genwin 14y ago
For a news aggregator that adapts to your interests, try niflet.com. I'll add any decent feeds people want.
- SeppoErviala 14y ago
  No localization, I'm not too interested in USA news.
  - genwin 14y ago
    It has a lot of non-USA sites. Just upvote the stuff you like.
yaj 14y ago
I have been using Twitter/Flipboard+Instapaper for a while now as a replacement for traditional RSS readers. I do use Tweetbot but most twitter clients do have "Read Later" applications integrated.
dkeskar 14y ago
Caveat: Still early[1], less featured than Google/RSS Reader. But also more. [1] http://memamsa.com/start/gr http://memamsa.com/start/gr
kmfrk 14y ago
I just Fever (http://www.feedafever.com/ http://www.feedafever.com/). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
- initself 14y ago
  PHP and MySQL, yuck!
  - throwaway420 14y ago
    Is the software any less useful because it's not created in a trendy language? One of the advantages that PHP has is that virtually any cheap web-host in the world can run it. It's not a bad choice to sell a self-hosted product in PHP because of this advantage. I'm not a huge fan of PHP for many types of projects, but I don't see how it benefits anybody to reflexively hate on something just because of a technology choice.
    - wpietri 14y ago
      PHP was such a security nightmare for so long that I am very reluctant to enable it on any box I actually care about. (It could well be better. It's been a long time since I was sysadmining many boxes.) So for a project I have to do the hosting on, language choice still matters to me.
      - hadem 14y ago
        And you're a huge fan of Ruby on Rails right...?
        kristopolous 14y ago
        And he's also part of the Long Now Foundation and did volunteer coding for MediaWiki (Don't know the guy, just googled around). No need to be mean to a nice guy. :-\
        gmac 14y ago
spindritf 14y ago
> What do you guys recommend for replacement? That's the hard part. Reader integrates nicely with Android's Listen (podcast app), and the reader app, and there's plenty of standalone clients that sync with Google. That's my most-used Google app. By far. Colossal disappointment.
- TillE 14y ago
  Nice to know that there's still at least one other Google Listen user in the world. I'm a huge podcast consumer, I like listening to old podcasts which have fallen off the RSS feed, and I still haven't found anything better. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do now. As far as I'm aware, nobody besides Google has been archiving RSS history for the past few years. It's a massive pain to dig for old podcast episodes any other way, as full feeds are extremely rare.
  - baytrailcat 14y ago
    I used to be a big Listen user, but the app was so buggy. Then I found Stitcher and never went back.
  - netfeed 14y ago
    Listen was better, but i kinda like PocketCasts, the only problem with that one is that it eats up battery :/
  - bhaile 14y ago
    BeyondPod. Been using that to manage my podcasts for a few years. It can import from Google Reader or maintain its own podcast list. Easy to export out if needed.
- rietta 14y ago
  I used to use Google Listen, but at some point started using BeyondPod and recently - within the last couple of weeks - went to the paid version of BeyondPod. It works great.
pflats 14y ago
http://netnewswireapp.com http://netnewswireapp.com is wonderful for the Mac users out there that aren't tied to an HTML solution. Pretty sure you can sync with your Google Reader account and then delete it from the app, and it'll remember your subscriptions. Just deleted mine and it works fine.
- camillomiller 14y ago
  Netnewswire is great but now they should provide a new way to sync feeds and especially read/unread counts, flagged and unflagged items, and favorites instead of relying on GReader. If someone wants a pitch here: don't go for a reader, go for a simple WebDAV like system to keep feeds in sync cross-app with APIs so simple that every dev would include it in its feed reading app!
srgseg 14y ago
http://www.protopage.com http://www.protopage.com has full screen mode with keyboard navigation if you first do Colors/Settings then untick "open news items directly" (Unticking this will mean headlines will open in the internal full text RSS news feed reader instead of navigating to the headline's web page directly).
busted 14y ago
I found bazqux.com which has the keyboard shortucts i wanted as well
sigil 14y ago
Based on your must-have list, a good low-tech solution might be an RSS to email gateway. Then your mail client becomes your RSS client. Gmail has j/k key bindings, is relatively unadorned, and facilitates your skim / skip workflow. Excerpts might require some work, but perhaps you could coerce them into the subject line. Aaron Swartz wrote a nice RSS to email gateway btw: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ I have a crappier one that delivers directly into a Maildir, and I use it to read news in mutt: http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop
- johns 14y ago
  IFTTT will let you easily do RSS to email too: ifttt.com/feed
- egh 14y ago
  I'm surprised more people don't do this. It's pretty easy to set up. Here's a little bit I wrote about using rss2email + emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail
- quotemstr 14y ago
  "Low-tech"? Email is the best way to read RSS! Email has all the features of high-end RSS headers: * Remember your read messages, even across clients * Star and read for later * Cross-platform * Configurable archiving * Keyword filtering * Search past articles * Organize feeds into folders using configurable rules * Social! (Use the "forward" button.) What's not to like about email?
erlichmen 14y ago
> That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. You never use Google Code Search RIP?

by klausa 14y ago

genwin 14y ago

For a news aggregator that adapts to your interests, try niflet.com. I'll add any decent feeds people want.

SeppoErviala 14y ago
No localization, I'm not too interested in USA news.
- genwin 14y ago
  It has a lot of non-USA sites. Just upvote the stuff you like.

yaj 14y ago

I have been using Twitter/Flipboard+Instapaper for a while now as a replacement for traditional RSS readers. I do use Tweetbot but most twitter clients do have "Read Later" applications integrated.

dkeskar 14y ago

Caveat: Still early[1], less featured than Google/RSS Reader. But also more. [1] http://memamsa.com/start/gr http://memamsa.com/start/gr

kmfrk 14y ago

I just Fever (http://www.feedafever.com/ http://www.feedafever.com/). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.

initself 14y ago
PHP and MySQL, yuck!
- throwaway420 14y ago
  Is the software any less useful because it's not created in a trendy language? One of the advantages that PHP has is that virtually any cheap web-host in the world can run it. It's not a bad choice to sell a self-hosted product in PHP because of this advantage. I'm not a huge fan of PHP for many types of projects, but I don't see how it benefits anybody to reflexively hate on something just because of a technology choice.
  - wpietri 14y ago
    PHP was such a security nightmare for so long that I am very reluctant to enable it on any box I actually care about. (It could well be better. It's been a long time since I was sysadmining many boxes.) So for a project I have to do the hosting on, language choice still matters to me.
    - hadem 14y ago
      And you're a huge fan of Ruby on Rails right...?
      - kristopolous 14y ago
        And he's also part of the Long Now Foundation and did volunteer coding for MediaWiki (Don't know the guy, just googled around). No need to be mean to a nice guy. :-\
      - gmac 14y ago

spindritf 14y ago

> What do you guys recommend for replacement? That's the hard part. Reader integrates nicely with Android's Listen (podcast app), and the reader app, and there's plenty of standalone clients that sync with Google. That's my most-used Google app. By far. Colossal disappointment.

TillE 14y ago
Nice to know that there's still at least one other Google Listen user in the world. I'm a huge podcast consumer, I like listening to old podcasts which have fallen off the RSS feed, and I still haven't found anything better. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do now. As far as I'm aware, nobody besides Google has been archiving RSS history for the past few years. It's a massive pain to dig for old podcast episodes any other way, as full feeds are extremely rare.
- baytrailcat 14y ago
  I used to be a big Listen user, but the app was so buggy. Then I found Stitcher and never went back.
- netfeed 14y ago
  Listen was better, but i kinda like PocketCasts, the only problem with that one is that it eats up battery :/
- bhaile 14y ago
  BeyondPod. Been using that to manage my podcasts for a few years. It can import from Google Reader or maintain its own podcast list. Easy to export out if needed.
rietta 14y ago
I used to use Google Listen, but at some point started using BeyondPod and recently - within the last couple of weeks - went to the paid version of BeyondPod. It works great.

pflats 14y ago

http://netnewswireapp.com http://netnewswireapp.com is wonderful for the Mac users out there that aren't tied to an HTML solution. Pretty sure you can sync with your Google Reader account and then delete it from the app, and it'll remember your subscriptions. Just deleted mine and it works fine.

camillomiller 14y ago
Netnewswire is great but now they should provide a new way to sync feeds and especially read/unread counts, flagged and unflagged items, and favorites instead of relying on GReader. If someone wants a pitch here: don't go for a reader, go for a simple WebDAV like system to keep feeds in sync cross-app with APIs so simple that every dev would include it in its feed reading app!

srgseg 14y ago

http://www.protopage.com http://www.protopage.com has full screen mode with keyboard navigation if you first do Colors/Settings then untick "open news items directly" (Unticking this will mean headlines will open in the internal full text RSS news feed reader instead of navigating to the headline's web page directly).

busted 14y ago

I found bazqux.com which has the keyboard shortucts i wanted as well

sigil 14y ago

Based on your must-have list, a good low-tech solution might be an RSS to email gateway. Then your mail client becomes your RSS client. Gmail has j/k key bindings, is relatively unadorned, and facilitates your skim / skip workflow. Excerpts might require some work, but perhaps you could coerce them into the subject line. Aaron Swartz wrote a nice RSS to email gateway btw: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ I have a crappier one that delivers directly into a Maildir, and I use it to read news in mutt: http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop

johns 14y ago
IFTTT will let you easily do RSS to email too: ifttt.com/feed
egh 14y ago
I'm surprised more people don't do this. It's pretty easy to set up. Here's a little bit I wrote about using rss2email + emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail
quotemstr 14y ago
"Low-tech"? Email is the best way to read RSS! Email has all the features of high-end RSS headers: * Remember your read messages, even across clients * Star and read for later * Cross-platform * Configurable archiving * Keyword filtering * Search past articles * Organize feeds into folders using configurable rules * Social! (Use the "forward" button.) What's not to like about email?

erlichmen 14y ago

> That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. You never use Google Code Search RIP?