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Seamless Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly
- bhauer 14y agoInteresting. But PBSALTPH. Product blogs should always link to product homes.
- niggler 14y agoNot disputing your point, but they do link to their products (e.g. iOS app store link) in the body of the post.
- pettazz 14y agoI have no idea what that acronym is. Please de-obfuscate.
- dfc 14y agoApparently the blog is the product home page. www.feedly.com redirects to the blog. Why would I click to install a firefox extension without ever seeing what it looks like and or what features it provides? EDIT: Mozilla Addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/
- mocy 14y agohttp://feedly.com http://feedly.com is the product home
- zuu 14y agonot to be confused with http://www.feedly.com/ http://www.feedly.com/ which does not work :)
- mocy 14y ago:) It works for me, but it seems to be really slow right now.
- justhw 14y agoThe first thing I did before reading the post was look for a link to home, but was enraged when I found none. Still can't believe why sites do this.
- lchang 14y agoImport my tags and folders and you're good. The RSS feed isn't the problem - it's the hundreds of hours I've put into curating content.
- wslh 14y agoSearch for: google reader api site:stackoverflow.com
- hdra 14y agofeels really slow, is it because of the traffic surge?
- barista 14y agoWindows Phone application please
- SeppoErviala 14y agoI want a google reader replacement but this requires me to install something instead of just working.
- ClintonWu 14y agoIf you're looking for an alternative to skim headlines please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me http://skim.me) a try (what a great name ha). We're a startup releasing another version soon to help you keep up at a glance.
- dfc 14y agoI want a light weight feed reader with very few distractions. Upon visiting your page I see that you use webgl on your homepage and it appears that you only allow logins through facebook?
- baddox 14y agoInstall something that literally does nothing relevant to Google Reader functionality. With the Chrome extension installed, the feedly.com/home web page works and I can read all my feeds. When I remove the extension, the site stops working.
- stuqqq 14y agofeedly is loading forever.
- proex 14y agoIt's a nice reader really, but i don't want to have to install an extension just because.
- elithrar 14y agoWhat I find especially odd is that they have built their API-compatible replacement for a Google property on another Google property. Although App Engine is unlikely to see a shutdown in the way Reader has/will be, they're still at the whims of a company whose primary business isn't a development/app platform.
- jyap 14y agoYou can't put out blanket statements like that. Google is a huge company with many different divisions. You may as well just impose a ban on Google on not even use Google search. It's like saying "Don't use AWS because Amazon is a commerce site". Also App Engine is a paid for product. When you decide to charge for a product things become 'real' because you can't just shut down a product people good money for and rely on for business. Of course in theory anything could be shut down but the likelihood greatly decreases once you start charging users.
- kyriakos 14y agoTried it in the past on android but was facing some issues with Greek text, tested it again now and the problem persists.
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoI wish there was a bare-bones version.. I'm using the android app right now and had several moments where I just paused not knowing what to do.. it's a very "swipe-happy" UI. I guess I'll get used to it eventually.
- vlokshin 14y agoBrilliant timing with this blog post - that should be the biggest take-way from this to the HN crowd.
- apendleton 14y agoDoes "transition" just mean the feeds will be copied? What about old content? Starred content?
- greggman 14y agoThanks but I don't want an APP. I use 14+ different browsers a day. I touch other machines as well. Any machine I'm on, even if it's not mine, I want to access my feeds. I have ZERO interest in an app. Thank you.
- bookwormAT 14y agoif a web application does not count as an "app" for you, then I have good news: Feedly has a web application. A good one. http://www.feedly.com http://www.feedly.com
- kybernetikos 14y agoI've just been trying to use feedly, but it's leaving a lot to be desired. I don't want to have to search in order to add a site. I have the URL in my clipboard, I want to just add it to a particular group. The organise function (which on my vertical screen requires hover and if I click instead it closes it) seems to be designed around assuming that you don't have many groups or feeds in your groups. For example, I was trying to add a particular feed url to a particular group. It wouldn't let me because it was already in another group, but I couldn't see which group it was in (and why shouldn't I have a feed in more than one group?). Also, what's with the huge featured thing? I don't care about what's 'featured', what I want is a timeline of full articles from my groups, without extra nonsense up at the top and without having to move between sites. I don't care about the feed it's from, what I care about is new content. I moved to reader from bloglines precisely because reader would let me have that and bloglines wouldn't, if feedly won't either then I simply can't use it.
- kmlymi 14y agoSmooth transition of my information. However, I find using it a bit atrocious in terms of trying to figure out what all those little custom icons mean. Sadly, I don't see myself getting used to it any time soon.
- carsonm 14y agoPardon the skepticism, but: a) No clear revenue model b) Built on the (thus far, still supported) Google App engine Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
- Bjartr 14y agoAll I want is an equivalent "Next unread item" bookmarklet, anyone know of a service that has that?