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Feedly is a great, free replacement. That's what I moved to way back then and still read SlashDot and hundreds of other sources on it daily.

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I don't really get why people don't use it more to aggregate content from many sites. These days you don't even have to install a special app to do it, it is build in some browsers or you can get a web based one like Feedly and visit it from your phone and desktop browser.

I think it will be easy for me to be an RSS dinosaur as long as popular frameworks for blogging continue to support it. I doubt the RSS support in a project like WordPress is very high maintenance so what incentive is there to remove the support?

Could someone recommend to me a newsreader that will integrate several news feeds into a single one? I do not want to use a web site that I have to log into. I just want an app or browser plugin. Thanks.

https://feedly.com/

I like an online reader because I use it from multiple computers with multiple operating systems, and I never have to worry about syncing what articles I've already seen and/or starred. My current favorite is Inoreader, but I've used The Old Reader and Feedly before, and they get the job done as well.

My feeds are Associated Press, Denver Post, Ars, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Kottke, AV Club, and a handful of web comics that I like. I can skim the headlines, and if there are articles I want to read later, I use the "Send to Kindle" browser plugin to push them out to my Kindle. I would be sad to have to give up my leisure reading workflow if sites stopped supporting RSS.

While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.

It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!

I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )

I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )

I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )

I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )

As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling ...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )

From TFA:

[Update 2: The change has been rolled back: you can now go to http://cloud.feedly.com/ and login using the old Google Authentication mechanism. The main lesson we learned here is that user should control how they want to login to login to their feedly. We will make sure not to forget this. Have a good week end].

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Until they try to figure out another way to force this on people.

Google's ultimate goal is simple. You can't just use only Gmail or only Youtube or whatever. If you want to use one service, you have to use them all.

All the Google nonsense was pure speculation. It turns out it was here employer who turned her in.

http://feedly.com/k/11xS8Y7

Feedly has been amazing to those of us migrating from Google Reader: http://feedly.com/

Feedly is OK, but not as good as reader. In particular I miss being able to use it to combine multiple feeds into a bundle - which then has its own RSS feed that can be displayed on web pages. Also an embeddable view for igHome would be good

read above comments by others regarding http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-users-migrating-to-feedly - you can change the views for all of what you're asking for. Just change it to inline view.

Feedly is my choice and I'm very happy that they announced a seamless transition from Google Reader to their own backend services. They were right on top of this.

http://blog.feedly.com/

There are some who don't like the UI but I've never really had a problem with it. Works nicely on Chrome/ChromeOS through its plugin, on Android, iOS, even Kindle Fire.

It's not good for people who can't install extensions on their work computer

http://feedly.com/

I just switched, and I'm already wondering why I was on Reader for so long.

Feedly is my choice and I'm very happy that they announced a seamless transition from Google Reader to their own backend services. They were right on top of this. http://blog.feedly.com/ There are some who don't like the UI but I've never really had a problem with it. Works nicely on Chrome/ChromeOS through its plugin, on Android, iOS, even Kindle Fire.

... here

So far, Feedly seems to work fine for me.

No one fucking cares, I know this because ... its going away and no one is saying loudly 'we can import your google reader feeds, move to us!!!!!'.

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
http://getprismatic.com/reader

there are others but I don't remember what they were

> No one fucking cares, I know this because ... its going away and no one is saying loudly 'we can import your google reader feeds, move to us!!!!!'.

Actually, that's exactly what feedly was saying on their home page last night. They seem to have a good feature set, and run on all the platforms I care about, but their servers buckled under the load yesterday, so maybe not.

They have prepared for this by coding a clone of Google Reader, even implementing the API (for others to use as well). This should be great news for other apps depending on Google Reader. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ I've been a Feedly user for many years, give it a shot, it's great!

With everything being in the cloud, what if the cloud is gone someday. The google reader is just an example here. If google reader is just a desktop app, we can happily conitnue to use it even it is abandoned. But if it is in the cloud, we are screwed.

If "the cloud" (the whole of it) is gone someday, there also won't be any RSS/ATOM feeds left for you to use your desktop app with.

My point is, "the cloud" being gone isn't very probable - some services like Google Reader may disappear, but if they are popular, others will immediately spot the opportunity to take their place (like presently feedly.com, netvibes.com or newsblur.com), possibly even improving upon these on their way out.

Oh, calm down. All this means is that you have to export your stuff, and import into a different, nearly identical service.

What do you want them to do, anyway? Swear a blood-oath that once they start up a service, they will continue with it forever?

If they don't think it makes sense to commit the resources to maintain it, then it's certainly not going to make sense to maintain a paid version - not everything is about revenue.

You act like this is some kind of galling defect in Google's collective moral fibre - some things don't stick, it happens.

Feedly seems to be the best alternative if you've become accustomed to using Google Reader. It synchronizes itself with Google Reader (or it will until July). It even has some the same keyboard shortcuts. Transitioning is seamless; it uses Google's OAuth to gain access to your Google account and pull in all your feeds & tags.

It looks like the app is a little slow right now as they are dealing with the surge in demand.

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

8 Billion web pages, which one, exactly, are you looking for?
8 Billion. And that's a very conservative number. How do you find what you don't know what you are looking for? I'll describe my setup to cut through the information overload of today's world.

Most of these functions are built into my browser, Chrome, through extensions but other browsers are more than capable of doing them as well: especially Firefox. Internet Explorer is the most limited here but even it can access most of these functions through straight web-interfaces - although clunky.

The basis of all the following systems is the RSS Feed. It is a method of condensing a website into a synopsis of stories which are then linked to. The place to begin with RSS feeds is to get yourself a Gmail account. This single log-on will allow you to access the whole range of Google Web-Services. After you do that you sign up for Google Reader with your gmail login. You can then begin to add feeds from your favorite web-sites to that. You can, in Chrome, use an extension called: RSS Subscription to easily add feeds from your favorite web-sites to Reader. Once you have a good amount of feeds subscribed, the next step is to set up a Feedly account. Feedly integrates completely with Google Reader so you don't need reader other than a place to store your subscriptions. Feedly provides a magazine like summary of all of your favorite web-sites in one easy to use place through the magic of RSS Feeds. Now, on your second monitor you set up another web-site called Lazyfeed. I like to have this browser set to full-screen. Lazyfeed is organized by topics instead of web-sites and constantly updates as new stories appear on the web. Be specific in the topics you are interested with. Going beyond all of this, and all these services integrate seamlessly with this as well, is to use the micro-blogging service Twitter as a method to find the latest sites. Twitter can be clunky as a web-page, but again, if you integrate it into Chrome using an extension such as Chromed Bird then it actually operates in a very fluid manner. Twitter is another means of aggregation, you follow people who are interesting and if they find you interesting they follow you: providing links the entire time. The whole of these systems allows you to cut straight through all the fluff and find what interests you - even if you don't know what that is!

ProTip: When viewing items in Lazyfeed they all have an RSS button so you can subscribe to the complete feed in Reader and by extension Feedly!

Another, but less related system - especially if you download lots of books - is to use: Google Desktop which provides a side-bar and more importantly an indexer which will look inside all your files and provide Google Search to them. Very useful for going deeper.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS - RSS Description
http://www.google.ca/reader/ - Google Reader
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd - RSS Subscription Extension
http://www.feedly.com/ - Feedly
http://www.lazyfeed.com/ - Lazyfeed
http://twitter.com/ - Twitter
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/encaiiljifbdbjlphpgpiimidegddhic - Chromed Bird
http://desktop.google.ca/en/?ignua=1 - Google Desktop

http://digiphile.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/linking-tweeting-and-social-search-on-the-human-curated-web/ - Article on social search
http://oneforty.com/ - Th