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None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loa
by pauljonas 13y ago
None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my volume of subscribed feeds.
Also, skeptical that Feedly will be able to thrive on their own without the Google backend. Hope I am proven dead wrong on this though!
Tried some of the others but they either choked on my subscription import (>3K feeds) or there are serious performance issues. The Old Reader truncated my Google Reader import at the letter 'H'. Yoleo UX locks up on me constantly and every click seems to enact a multi-second delay in response.
Another reader alternative tried was feedwalk.com -- again, like Yoleo, it imported all my feeds, but is plagued by performance issues.
In sum, Feedly is the only viable alternative, but the lack of search limits its value for me.
- porker 13y agoMore than 3k feeds... wow! I get swamped keeping up with < 100 feeds, as nothing predicts (well enough|at all) which articles I want to read, so I have to skim them all.
- pauljonas 13y agoA lot of those feeds update infrequently. And there are a number of duplicates (a pain in Google Reader to administer) or the same site that migrated from blog platform to blog platform, but I declined to remove the old feed (primarily for search, though in the past few years, Google Reader search got nerfed to only retrieve from current year and a smattering of older items by an algorithm I ascertain could only be random or happenstance). But the main gist is that I only read a small percentage of links. It is mostly a river I wade in, though, if I have the time, will go in-depth. It's why search is so important -- it's a "google custom search" method (yes, I know there is a CSE product in Google Labs, but it's even more flawed) that limits my queries to those sites I have pre-declared an interest in.
- porker 13y ago> or the same site that migrated from blog platform to blog platform, but I declined to remove the old feed (primarily for search Ah yes, I used to have this, but deleted it when there appeared to be no use for them - hadn't realised search had changed, but looking back that must be what it was.
- Slimbo 13y agoI'm guessing Feedly is only servicing your 3k feeds because it's still using GReaders back end.
- pauljonas 13y agoIt's a good question. I guess we shall discover if this is true come July 1. But Feedly is actually snappier than Google Reader in many respects -- i.e., popping into individual feed lists, UX responsiveness, etc.
- juliogreff 13y agoYou'd be a great user to have when doing stress testing :) Would you mind sharing your opml (if there's nothing sensitive or that you wouldn't want to share in there)? I'm one of the developers of lector, and I'm having trouble finding people with enough feeds to put some real load on our servers.
- pauljonas 13y agoGR flaking out when I try to access settings today. Will export and share (nothing private) tonight.
- pauljonas 13y agohttp://nauminous.net/gr/subscriptions.xml http://nauminous.net/gr/subscriptions.xml
- pauljonas 13y agoOr alternately, give me an account and I shall attempt importing and using…
- juliogreff 13y agoSure, I can get you an account. Please just email me, the address is in the profile.
- jamiebikies 13y agoHey there, Yoleo's dev here :) I've put in some performance improvements to the back-end. The multi-second delay you're mentioning? I know exactly what's causing that and I just have to put the fix in place. It should be insanely snappy within the next week or so.
- pauljonas 13y agoWill give it another whirl :)