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Ask HN: So - what's the consensus on a Google Reader replacement?

13 points by adrianhoward 13y ago

Trello has just reminded me that I need to find a replacement for Google Reader in the next month. What's the consensus (if any)?

phasevar 13y ago
I'd love to know this as well. I haven't had time to find a replacement yet.
adrianhoward 13y ago
My reading list for figuring out includes: * http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/how-i-feel-this-morning.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/how-i-fe... * http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374042 * http://www.replacereader.com/ http://www.replacereader.com/ * https://news.layervault.com/stories/2282-build-a-designer-version-of-google-reader https://news.layervault.com/stories/2282-build-a-designer-ve... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538
mwmnj 13y ago
Feedly
jrdn 13y ago
I've been pretty happy with newsblur.
- egor83 13y ago
  Same here. Tried http://theoldreader.com/ http://theoldreader.com/ too, but like NewsBlur more.
- Torgo 13y ago
  Seconding this, NewsBlur has for me been everything good about Google Reader, and more. You can reshare blog posts on your own "blog" to even non-Newsblur users, which is a really cool feature. It's pretty much its own social network based around blog post sharing. Totally into it.
zackhall 13y ago
I think that I'm going to try out a self hosted solution for a while. For no other reason than just the fact that it seems fun. Here's one that was posted to HN recently: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer
- mblakele 13y ago
  For similar reasons, https://github.com/socketubs/leselys https://github.com/socketubs/leselys - but using mongo and python rather than ruby and PostgreSQL.
  - ElongatedTowel 13y ago
    Impressive. Sad to know that many promising projects fly under the radar. The Changelog featured Stringer and that probably helped putting it over 1000 Favorites, but this project easily comes out on top, yet isn't well known.
- deleted 13y ago
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ProCynic 13y ago
I'm happy with feedly
ultrafez 13y ago
This could benefit from being a poll.
xpop2027 13y ago
Feedly
- adrianhoward 13y ago
  Doesn't have an OPML export as far as I can see... At least Google Reader lets me get my data out ;-)
  - fakeer 13y ago
    And did they ever tell you why they ask you to download a Firefox add-on to read a website? :-)
    - kachhalimbu 13y ago
      Do you happen to know? Quick Google search didn't help. Are their any potential security concerns to the user if using their extension?
hhm 13y ago
http://theoldreader.com/ http://theoldreader.com/ worked fine for me.
handelaar 13y ago
All I want is a list of new things and a place in the title bar for each one that'll open the actual article. I don't want a replacement which makes it basically impossible to visit the site that updated (The Old Reader) and I don't want to find a mystery-meat icon among about a dozen bloody share-this-on-friendfacetwat buttons (Feedly). So none of the alternatives are working for me. And I'll never get blo.gs back because it fell down the Yahoo hole years ago along with all my Delicious data.
fakeer 13y ago
NewsBlur is ugly. I mean it just looks oily. The Old Reader doesn't provide an API yet it seems. (I had mailed awesome Android app FeedMe's[1] dev and that's what he said) FeedHQ started taking payments(actually became paid only) without any features or implementation which is worthwhile. Feedly is plague. Ask them why they need a Firefox extension to read their website. FeedBin is one that sounds sane and I am going to stick to them till others improve. We don't have an option, yet! Besides, in most of the blog posts and comments people were worried about a reading client than a service which(latter) IMHO was the real loss. [1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...
swarmiq 13y ago
Hi Guys, If what you want is the ability to skim large #s of headlines, organize lots of feeds, label them, tag articles for later reading in one fast unobtrusive "no magazine layout" reader, SwarmIQ is your choice. Sign up at http://www.swarmiq.com/register/GOOGLEREADERISDEAD http://www.swarmiq.com/register/GOOGLEREADERISDEAD , click on the Google reader icon to get all your feeds, and get up and running straight away. Disclosure: I'm on the team that built this site :-) Also, we don't have "Google Alerts" type functionality yet.
epaulson 13y ago
I switched to feedly. I'm not thrilled (it seems to really stress my machine out) but it's not terrible. I remain curious how it well it will work after Google shuts Reader down. I may go the self-hosting route too. I wrote a script to pull down all of the entries of every feed I'm subscribed to in Reader - the OPML of subscriptions is helpful, but for blogs that are offline I want to have a copy of the feed from Google's cache. I'm not doing anything with the data right now, but I figure I've got it if I want to do something with it later. https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts
ritvvijparrikh 13y ago
Hello, we recently hosted a hackathon and it spat up an open source, no-bullshit Google Reader Alternative. It is live at http://reader.pykih.com http://reader.pykih.com. We started this as a fun project and we only have an early prototype out but are getting sign-ups. We want it to be a simple, text-heavy, less UI, developer friendly, hacker news style reader. Please do try it and give suggestions, feedback, bugs, etc. at https://github.com/pykih/reader/issues https://github.com/pykih/reader/issues. In case you are a Rails developer and wish to contribute, we are at https://github.com/pykih/reader https://github.com/pykih/reader. Thank you in advance. :-)
cunninghamd 13y ago
Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss, http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki). I've loved it since I've installed it, and that's even without the iPhone integration enabled. I'm sure I'll love it more once I have that. I deleted the 'reader.google.com' from my Chrome auto complete, and replaced it with 'reader.mydomain.com' so my experience is maintained. :)
- adrianhoward 13y ago
  iPhone integration? (a quick look at the site finds me nothing - and I'd previously dicarded TTRSS coz I needed something that synced across a couple of platforms.)

13 points by adrianhoward 13y ago

Trello has just reminded me that I need to find a replacement for Google Reader in the next month. What's the consensus (if any)?

phasevar 13y ago

I'd love to know this as well. I haven't had time to find a replacement yet.

adrianhoward 13y ago

My reading list for figuring out includes: * http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/how-i-feel-this-morning.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/how-i-fe... * http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374042 * http://www.replacereader.com/ http://www.replacereader.com/ * https://news.layervault.com/stories/2282-build-a-designer-version-of-google-reader https://news.layervault.com/stories/2282-build-a-designer-ve... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538

mwmnj 13y ago

Feedly

jrdn 13y ago

I've been pretty happy with newsblur.

egor83 13y ago
Same here. Tried http://theoldreader.com/ http://theoldreader.com/ too, but like NewsBlur more.
Torgo 13y ago
Seconding this, NewsBlur has for me been everything good about Google Reader, and more. You can reshare blog posts on your own "blog" to even non-Newsblur users, which is a really cool feature. It's pretty much its own social network based around blog post sharing. Totally into it.

zackhall 13y ago

I think that I'm going to try out a self hosted solution for a while. For no other reason than just the fact that it seems fun. Here's one that was posted to HN recently: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer

mblakele 13y ago
For similar reasons, https://github.com/socketubs/leselys https://github.com/socketubs/leselys - but using mongo and python rather than ruby and PostgreSQL.
- ElongatedTowel 13y ago
  Impressive. Sad to know that many promising projects fly under the radar. The Changelog featured Stringer and that probably helped putting it over 1000 Favorites, but this project easily comes out on top, yet isn't well known.
deleted 13y ago
[deleted]

ProCynic 13y ago

I'm happy with feedly

ultrafez 13y ago

This could benefit from being a poll.

xpop2027 13y ago

Feedly

adrianhoward 13y ago
Doesn't have an OPML export as far as I can see... At least Google Reader lets me get my data out ;-)
- fakeer 13y ago
  And did they ever tell you why they ask you to download a Firefox add-on to read a website? :-)
  - kachhalimbu 13y ago
    Do you happen to know? Quick Google search didn't help. Are their any potential security concerns to the user if using their extension?

hhm 13y ago

http://theoldreader.com/ http://theoldreader.com/ worked fine for me.

handelaar 13y ago

All I want is a list of new things and a place in the title bar for each one that'll open the actual article. I don't want a replacement which makes it basically impossible to visit the site that updated (The Old Reader) and I don't want to find a mystery-meat icon among about a dozen bloody share-this-on-friendfacetwat buttons (Feedly). So none of the alternatives are working for me. And I'll never get blo.gs back because it fell down the Yahoo hole years ago along with all my Delicious data.

fakeer 13y ago

NewsBlur is ugly. I mean it just looks oily. The Old Reader doesn't provide an API yet it seems. (I had mailed awesome Android app FeedMe's[1] dev and that's what he said) FeedHQ started taking payments(actually became paid only) without any features or implementation which is worthwhile. Feedly is plague. Ask them why they need a Firefox extension to read their website. FeedBin is one that sounds sane and I am going to stick to them till others improve. We don't have an option, yet! Besides, in most of the blog posts and comments people were worried about a reading client than a service which(latter) IMHO was the real loss. [1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...

swarmiq 13y ago

Hi Guys, If what you want is the ability to skim large #s of headlines, organize lots of feeds, label them, tag articles for later reading in one fast unobtrusive "no magazine layout" reader, SwarmIQ is your choice. Sign up at http://www.swarmiq.com/register/GOOGLEREADERISDEAD http://www.swarmiq.com/register/GOOGLEREADERISDEAD , click on the Google reader icon to get all your feeds, and get up and running straight away. Disclosure: I'm on the team that built this site :-) Also, we don't have "Google Alerts" type functionality yet.

epaulson 13y ago

I switched to feedly. I'm not thrilled (it seems to really stress my machine out) but it's not terrible. I remain curious how it well it will work after Google shuts Reader down. I may go the self-hosting route too. I wrote a script to pull down all of the entries of every feed I'm subscribed to in Reader - the OPML of subscriptions is helpful, but for blogs that are offline I want to have a copy of the feed from Google's cache. I'm not doing anything with the data right now, but I figure I've got it if I want to do something with it later. https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts

ritvvijparrikh 13y ago

Hello, we recently hosted a hackathon and it spat up an open source, no-bullshit Google Reader Alternative. It is live at http://reader.pykih.com http://reader.pykih.com. We started this as a fun project and we only have an early prototype out but are getting sign-ups. We want it to be a simple, text-heavy, less UI, developer friendly, hacker news style reader. Please do try it and give suggestions, feedback, bugs, etc. at https://github.com/pykih/reader/issues https://github.com/pykih/reader/issues. In case you are a Rails developer and wish to contribute, we are at https://github.com/pykih/reader https://github.com/pykih/reader. Thank you in advance. :-)

cunninghamd 13y ago

Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss, http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki). I've loved it since I've installed it, and that's even without the iPhone integration enabled. I'm sure I'll love it more once I have that. I deleted the 'reader.google.com' from my Chrome auto complete, and replaced it with 'reader.mydomain.com' so my experience is maintained. :)

adrianhoward 13y ago
iPhone integration? (a quick look at the site finds me nothing - and I'd previously dicarded TTRSS coz I needed something that synced across a couple of platforms.)