by jsmeaton on 3/15/13, 12:06 AM
Am I the only one who just wants a list of updated articles and possibly an unread count? I don't want social in my RSS. I don't want to "discover" feeds. I don't want to be told what to read. I don't want to follow people.
For me, the whole point of RSS is that I find a site I like, I add it to my list, and I'm told when there's a new article.
I've tried several alternatives in the last 24 hours, and most of them ignore my actual feeds and give me a whole lot of machine learned articles I couldn't care less about.
It's not always the topic that's interesting, it's the writing style, or some kind of imaginary connection I've made with the site or author.
If I want to 'discover' articles, I'll browse HN or Reddit. If it's something I think I'll want to keep updated about, that's when I add it to my RSS.
by Fizzer on 3/15/13, 12:14 AM
This isn't how you go about finding which is the best. This is how you go about finding which is the most popular.
Voting is inherently skewed towards popularity, which is not always correlated with quality.
From the headline, I had assumed you spent all night learning the ins and outs of every option and were going to present your findings. I was disappointed to find this was just a poll.
by loire280 on 3/14/13, 8:57 PM
This is a great idea, but I think the rush to find an alternative is premature - there's going to be a huge shift in the RSS reader landscape over the next few months, and the best alternative may not even be announced yet.
by brianwillis on 3/14/13, 8:13 PM
Nice touch with the bobbing ship on the side there.
by mattmcknight on 3/15/13, 2:24 AM
Surprised Feedly is so highly ranked. I tried it out after the last set of Google Reader changes and deleted it after about a week. The mobile app is really awful for skimming lots of content and is too focused on presenting a newspaper like layout. It's all pictures...
by charlieok on 3/14/13, 8:14 PM
It's worth separating clients from servers, and noting which clients can sync with which servers.
by colbyh on 3/14/13, 11:22 PM
Nitpicking I know but reusing the Google Reader favicon actually caused me confusion for a second. Cool idea though, and way more interesting than what I did last night!
Anyone complaining about "the RSS landscape changingblah blah blah" must really hate fun. Someone did this in a night to address an immediate problem and probably had a blast doing it, let the guy (girl?) enjoy the fruit of their labor.
by cwp on 3/14/13, 9:46 PM
This is great! There is one thing missing though. I tried to subscribe to the site in Reader and it couldn't find a feed. Could you?
by ronbo on 3/14/13, 8:04 PM
its nice - but you might want to just mine the twitters mentioning these sites to get a bit more content.
by xpose2000 on 3/14/13, 8:49 PM
Well done. This site was worth the work, even if it will be a short lived project.
I voted for feedly. Those guys also promised a smooth transition once google reader shuts down. Not sure what else you could want.
by ufo on 3/14/13, 11:17 PM
My problem right now is not getting a list of names of popular feed readers - I can already see that by just browsing any of the many comment threads that have popped up on the internet where people bring up their favourite alternative.
What I really need is something to help me make a decision, by comparing what features does each reader support and so on. How much does it cost? Can I see my read in multiple devices? Does it work on smartphones? Can I share links with people? etc...
by 3amOpsGuy on 3/15/13, 1:55 AM
Really impressed with the aesthetics, especially for such a quick turnaround. Had a peek under the covers and it appears to be well done there too.
Top marks in my book.
by budman on 3/15/13, 4:14 AM
I am really surprised in all these Google Reader threads I have not seen mention of the free, self-hosted and perfectly simple RSSLounge. I been using it for three years now and even donated.
Development has stalled on this one though but the developer has a new RSS project with more social stuff. It is called Selfoss and is at http://selfoss.aditu.de/ .
by olegp on 3/15/13, 6:17 AM
I've been doing the same and adding them to StartHQ:
https://starthq.com/apps/?q=readerThe web app profile pages include speed & trustworthiness info as well as mentions of the app on Hacker News. I will also add popularity rankings and TLDR versions of the ToS over the next few days.
by latraveler on 3/15/13, 12:22 AM
Feedly looks cool and all, but how do I add a feed? I spent 2 minutes and still can't figure it out.
by themgt on 3/14/13, 8:02 PM
Very nice! I'd really like if you could mark which ones are available open source to run yourself.
by theone on 3/15/13, 5:08 AM
by latraveler on 3/15/13, 1:27 AM
by bochoh on 3/14/13, 9:07 PM
This looks great. A few animated fish and/or bubbles down towards the bottom of the list could break up the monotony of that long list. (Or even let the ship sink slowly as the ready scrolls down.)
by tempestn on 3/14/13, 10:29 PM
Does Feedly have a web-based client? I'm looking for something to recommend to users at www.searchtempest.com. Many of them have never used (or even heard of) RSS before, so simplicity is key.
by mmahemoff on 3/15/13, 12:29 AM
Chuffed to be included here, thanks! Would you mind switching the tag to #PlayerFM as a lot of Twitter clients will treat the "." incorrectly.
by tutuca on 3/14/13, 8:10 PM
by dstroot on 3/15/13, 12:15 AM
How are you guys processing the tweets to show the results? Would love to know more about that.
by lowmagnet on 3/14/13, 7:47 PM
Nice stuff, I voted for Fever, even though it has some usability issues.
by mikemoka on 3/14/13, 9:20 PM
by drewschrauf on 3/15/13, 2:36 AM
I adore the design. Nice touch with the sinking ship.
by smnl on 3/15/13, 3:22 AM
Thanks for the shoutout for BlogRoll! :)
by ajtaylor on 3/14/13, 11:04 PM
I'm getting an Internal Server Error. :(
by afx2in on 3/14/13, 7:57 PM
i like flipboard the best, but it still needs google reader for my rss feeds...
by lucaspiller on 3/14/13, 8:01 PM
Love the CSS animation :D
by asdstuff on 3/14/13, 9:59 PM
i just found out, i can import my feeds to yandex.com's reader.
fast, minimal interface without any bullshit.