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| | Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays? | |
41 points by Samuel_Michon on Oct 14, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 65 comments
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| On July 2, Google Reader shut down. I’m a heavy RSS user and I’m quite satisfied with the alternative I found, but I’m always on the lookout for better products. If you used RSS before, what did you do to replace Google Reader? | |
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But it's simple, it works, and (with a tiny bit of CSS and Javascript tweakery in its templates) it presents things in exactly the way I want them, which no other RSS-reading tool I've seen does. (One page with everything inline, rather than a list of feeds that I have to select one by one: I want my feed aggregator to actually aggregate my feeds. This enables the simplest possible reading process[1]: start at the top and read or skim until reaching something you've seen already, then stop. The only nontrivial change I've made is adding little toggles to collapse and expand whole feeds or individual entries.)
[1] I should in good conscience admit that this breaks down in the presence of feeds whose timestamps are b0rked, which are unfortunately not that rare. This doesn't in practice require a big deviation from the simple process in the previous paragraph.
And I like having it live on my local server, not in the cloud. What feeds I choose to read are no business of, say, Google's, and the whole cloud thing is overrated. Get off my lawn!