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The closest replacement is The Old Reader - unfortunately they seem to having problems with feed update speed (probably due to load)
by anu_gupta 13y ago
The closest replacement is The Old Reader - unfortunately they seem to having problems with feed update speed (probably due to load)
- kybernetikos 13y agoYup, that was the only one that I tried that really fit my workflow.
- owyn 13y agoI'm using The Old Reader. I would have recommended it to him but he wants something with iPhone/iPad support too. They aren't charging anything, maybe they should make an app...
- Semaphor 13y agoMy favorite, Newsblur, has pretty much everything GReader had. And by now he even managed to do away with the performance problems.
- sleepyhead 13y agoToo bad it's ugly and has lots of ux-quirks.
- jimhart3000 13y agoYeah, I finally tried out NewsBlur yesterday after waiting as long as possible to decide on a replacement. There's a lot going on there. I think I've more or less figured out what it's all for and how to navigate around, but one thing is still bugging me -- what's that orange triangle on the left of the feed area, that follows the cursor around unless you "lock" it, for?! Totally unexplained ux element.
- stegro32 13y agoI think (but am not certain) that when any part of an article moves past the orange triangle, it is marked as read.
- jtolj 13y agoYes, this. I was confused by it too until I uncovered that in a GetSatisfaction thread. If you lock it about 1/4 of the way from the top, the auto mark-read behavior is like GReader. It should probably default to being locked... One of my favorite things about Newsblur is how minutely configurable it is, but I think all of that is probably throwing off new users.
- eli 13y agoYou don't find it buggy? For example, right now it claims several of my feeds are 404 and it won't let me fix them -- I have to delete and re-add them.
- zeckalpha 13y agoI find exactly which feeds are 404 varies, so I believe it is an upstream issue in the feed itself.
- eli 13y agoThe "fix a misbehaving feed" dialog claims every URL I give it is 404. And now it has helpfully renamed all my broken feeds to "[Untitled]" so I can't tell them apart in the list.
- zeckalpha 13y agoFile a bug report: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues
- Semaphor 13y agoWeird, I have no bugs at all. No 404, no other problems.
- kolev 13y agoIt's super buggy! Dupes articles and it's happened twice when long reading sessions were lost without any indication of error - the "read" state of tens, maybe hundreds of articles were not updated. I've seen the code on GitHub in the past - it was a ball of pasta.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoI wanted to try this a couple months ago, but it had crazy permissions (contact book, and IIRC even more). No way. Today I see it's just (a) email address and (b) know who you are on Google. Glad to see they changed it.
- Supermighty 13y agoI've really enjoyed using Feedbin.me. They have a three column layout and keyboard commands. Makes it easy to read. Feedbin is web based, but they have an API that I can sync with Press on my phone.