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If Google is back into separate services can we get Reader turned back on please?

by tdicola 12y ago

dilap 12y ago
I must've tried like 300 replacements, and settled on bazqux, which is pretty good (though a bit ugly, and doesn't have a good mobile site).
- mblakele 12y ago
  I'm using https://github.com/mjibson/goread https://github.com/mjibson/goread now. Nice of google app engine to help me self-host it.
  - wyclif 12y ago
    What is the problem with Feedly?
    - alebaffa 12y ago
      I agree. I'm using Feedly too and I find it way better than GReader.
      - r00fus 12y ago
        Meaningful search (above top-3) is still not free. Which is honest and fair, but that worked pretty well in GReader and I'd consider it a regression. I still use it daily.
    - rspeer 12y ago
      Their interface forgets I've read things, and their CSS has always been a huge fuck-up. Even after you turn off the stupid "magazine mode", it cuts off images at some small number of hundreds of pixels while there's a thousand pixels of whitespace to the right. I switched to theoldreader.com and have been much happier.
est 12y ago
It's gonna be back on the day when official Google Talk client updates.
Calamitous 12y ago
I've been using NewsBlur. It works well on desktop and mobile, and is reasonably priced.
- Bootvis 12y ago
  Not clear from this comment and good to know: there is a free version (that I use) and that works great!
akkartik 12y ago
As a google employee, I wouldn't use Reader now even if it magically came back. Fool me once, etc., etc. In fact, I wouldn't use any third-party service. I have the skills, and readers are easy to build; there's just no reason to outsource this particular product. (Here's what I've been using for the past year: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Sources: https://github.com/akkartik/spew https://github.com/akkartik/spew)
- rodgerd 12y ago
  Commonality across many devices is useful to me, so I ended up running tt-rss. Just don't read the forums.
- puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago
  I will latch on to this commend to recommend http://tt-rss.org/ http://tt-rss.org/ which I have been running since the demise of GReader and have been very happy with it. Performant with a huge number of feeds, able to share arbitrary items in your own public RSS feed, decent android client and wonderfully abrasive support forums. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/I7YLePz.png http://i.imgur.com/I7YLePz.png

If Google is back into separate services can we get Reader turned back on please?

by tdicola 12y ago

If Google is back into separate services can we get Reader turned back on please?

dilap 12y ago

I must've tried like 300 replacements, and settled on bazqux, which is pretty good (though a bit ugly, and doesn't have a good mobile site).

mblakele 12y ago
I'm using https://github.com/mjibson/goread https://github.com/mjibson/goread now. Nice of google app engine to help me self-host it.
- wyclif 12y ago
  What is the problem with Feedly?
  - alebaffa 12y ago
    I agree. I'm using Feedly too and I find it way better than GReader.
    - r00fus 12y ago
      Meaningful search (above top-3) is still not free. Which is honest and fair, but that worked pretty well in GReader and I'd consider it a regression. I still use it daily.
  - rspeer 12y ago
    Their interface forgets I've read things, and their CSS has always been a huge fuck-up. Even after you turn off the stupid "magazine mode", it cuts off images at some small number of hundreds of pixels while there's a thousand pixels of whitespace to the right. I switched to theoldreader.com and have been much happier.

est 12y ago

It's gonna be back on the day when official Google Talk client updates.

Calamitous 12y ago

I've been using NewsBlur. It works well on desktop and mobile, and is reasonably priced.

Bootvis 12y ago
Not clear from this comment and good to know: there is a free version (that I use) and that works great!

akkartik 12y ago

As a google employee, I wouldn't use Reader now even if it magically came back. Fool me once, etc., etc. In fact, I wouldn't use any third-party service. I have the skills, and readers are easy to build; there's just no reason to outsource this particular product. (Here's what I've been using for the past year: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Sources: https://github.com/akkartik/spew https://github.com/akkartik/spew)

rodgerd 12y ago
Commonality across many devices is useful to me, so I ended up running tt-rss. Just don't read the forums.
puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago
I will latch on to this commend to recommend http://tt-rss.org/ http://tt-rss.org/ which I have been running since the demise of GReader and have been very happy with it. Performant with a huge number of feeds, able to share arbitrary items in your own public RSS feed, decent android client and wonderfully abrasive support forums. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/I7YLePz.png http://i.imgur.com/I7YLePz.png