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https://newsblur.com/ Yes is costs a small amount of money but it works well. I have no other relation than being an early and still happy customer.

Bonus, because it costs money instead of selling ads, you're the actual customer and not a product being sold to someone else.

Also a customer, with 165 feeds, including Slashdot.

https://newsblur.com/ Yes is costs a small amount of money but it works well. I have no other relation than being an early and still happy customer.

RSS aficionados are letting the RSS clients slide by without improvement (Rssowl v2.2.1 was last released at the end of 2013).

QFT.
I really wanted a good (stable!) desktop RSS reader, but ended up using the webbased newsblur instead because its interface is actually closer to what I need than the available (Windows) desktop clients.

I loved reader and used it for hours every day. When Google abandoned reader I started using newsblur which is even better.

I thought I would miss Google Reader, but NewsBlur (see http://newsblur.com/) has been a great replacement, and has actually improved my workflow.

I can absolutly recommend NewsBlur!!

http://www.newsblur.com/

It's better than GoogleReader and is OpenSource. You've 3 options:
- use the free account (up to 64 sites)
- pay 24$/year for unlimited sites + extra features (fair price if you ask me)
- geek option: set it up yourself (you have all features in that way) -> https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur.git

Plus, it comes with free iOS and Android-Apps.

I've set it up myself last week and said goodbye to google reader.

I've been using NewsBlur for the past 2-3 weeks. I like it, & I totally recommend it to my fellow Google Reader exiles. It's not perfect, but it's close enough for me.... 'til something better shows up. I'm still surprised Google shut down Reader. They really didn't "get it" did they? They could've used that to make a tidy profit on the side, if not a big profit right down the pipe. They could've used it to combine with their social stuff, and made a sort of twitter/news hybrid. I really think that could've been huge, so I think they missed the boat on this. Good news tho... now the feed reader "market" can get competitive & inventive again.

I've been really happy with http://newsblur.com/ . It has pretty much every feature of reader I cared about, with a better interface and a very dedicated individual working hard behind the scenes.

They seem to be suffering from a massive influx of users. It seems to be getting better stability wise since I first started using it. It also has an original view, which is awesome for sites that annoyingly just put a link to the content, rather than the content on the feed.Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

It's also OSS if you wish to host it yourself, you can find it here.

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.

Several of the alternative web rss readers sites (like NewsBlur) are having trouble coping with the amount of people checking for good alternative web based rss readers. I suppose that they will manage to scale with time, but at the moment of the google announcement should had been hard to access.