by middus on 8/5/13, 7:57 AM
If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone.
Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088)
by thisishugo on 8/5/13, 7:58 AM
Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.
by uptown on 8/5/13, 11:04 AM
Since Google Reader went down, I've found I waste less time. I used to use Reeder as my front-end, but they've been slow to update their desktop app. I realize I'm "missing" things I used to keep up to date on, but the net gain is a lot more time I used to spend consuming what I suppose was superfluous content. For me - it's been kind of a nice change.
by exizt88 on 8/5/13, 8:49 AM
You know something's wrong with your RSS reader when it has a support queue, and people are willing to pay for bumping to the front of it.
by mcantrell on 8/5/13, 3:13 PM
That's great and all, but my RSS Service has SSL by default, no support queue, and is only $2/month or $16/year. Everyone is a user, and everyone is treated the same. No ads, ever.
https://www.bulletin.io
by petsos on 8/5/13, 8:07 AM
Not again with the lifetime accounts...
by AndrewDucker on 8/5/13, 7:54 AM
Fantastic. Making the users the customers is something I heartily approve of. It aligns the interests of the service providers with the interests of the users, and means they have to compete on service, rather than spending their time finding ways to make people click on ads.
by changdizzle on 8/5/13, 4:32 PM
Honest question: why do people pay for "pro" RSS services? There are enough out there that I don't feel I would ever need to - I was using oldreader until they shut it down to everyone and now use digg reader - is there specific functionality I'm missing out on by not using these premium services? There's always the whole adage of if it's free then you could lose it, but with the amount of readers out there it seems like I could hop to and from services.
by kzahel on 8/5/13, 12:47 PM
Seems ironic to have a "lifetime" pro option, as its predecessor's lifetime was cut short.
by JazCE on 8/5/13, 8:12 AM
Can they fix the whole "keep unread/mark as read" shortcut key debacle first?
by Simple1234 on 8/5/13, 1:16 PM
I'm surprised they don't just stick a banner at the top and call it a day.
by stephanos2k on 8/5/13, 7:44 AM
I was wondering how long it would take for them to find a business model.
by martin-adams on 8/5/13, 1:15 PM
I would be put off paying $99 for a lifetime account. These should be available up to 5,000, but users should be able to still opt for the $5 or $45 options.
by pkhamre on 8/5/13, 8:41 AM
I would rather pay a monthly/yearly fee.