![]() ![]() It looked good and was an interesting change of direction UX-wise (it was less "app-y" and more "publish-y", whatever that means) but I burned out on RSS in the middle of my project's 3rd iteration. Skimming and picking my daily feeds usually took close to 2 freaking hours to which I added the time required to read and act upon the very few interesting items (following a couchdb tutorial takes time).īack in 2007, IIRC, I even started work on my own feed reader (, never went live) designed around a cool algorhythm that would filter items according to keyword frequency and manual tagging. Besides those few high-volume feeds, I subscribed to dozens of low-volume feeds which all added to the chore/bore. Even doing that was a waste of time because of those feed's very low signal-to-noise ratio. I did exactly what you describe for years: skimming the headlines of my few high-volume subscriptions and marking everything as read. In sum, Feedly is the only viable alternative, but the lack of search limits its value for me. Yoleo UX locks up on me constantly and every click seems to enact a multi-second delay in response.Īnother reader alternative tried was - again, like Yoleo, it imported all my feeds, but is plagued by performance issues. The Old Reader truncated my Google Reader import at the letter 'H'. Tried some of the others but they either choked on my subscription import (>3K feeds) or there are serious performance issues. Hope I am proven dead wrong on this though! Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my volume of subscribed feeds.Īlso, skeptical that Feedly will be able to thrive on their own without the Google backend. It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. ![]() 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). None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. I think that Google's decision was wrong because Reader was a good service, but I also think it has benefited many people because several companies and individuals have benefited from the fallout. It wasn't that hard and frankly it beats patching and maintaining myself, I have better things to do. I have two laptops and a phone, so I couldn't use a stand-alone application for the 200 items I get a day.Īs for "panic"? I didn't panic, I grieved and then found a replacement. All for much the same reason I don't make my own electricity (although I am on the edge with that as well!).ĭedicated apps have been around forever, heck they owe their heritage to News Readers (before the binaries took over usenet). Consolidation, scale of economy and management. It was fine 99.5% of the time, but having someone else worry about availability just makes my life better. Self-hosted? I have just migrated back to third-party hosting for much of my stuff because I was bored of maintaining my dedicated host.
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