Unless you've been living under a rock for the last month or so, you'll probably have heard the uproar about the impending death about Google Reader (A RSS aggregation service) on the 1st of July.
Thankfully due to Google Reader having such a big fanbase lots of companies and startups have decided to create their own replacements for the much loved service.
[B]Here's a few of them:
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[URL="http://feedly.com"]Feedly[/URL] - Previously only available as a browser extension/addon, Feedly have recently ported it to a web-based interface called 'Feedly Cloud'. It automatically imports your feeds from Google Reader to their 'cloud'.
I've been using it for quite a while and it seems very nice. It's lightweight, has a very nice UI, is fast and seems to be a very good replacement.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2xeL27ul.png[/IMG]
[URL="http://reader.digg.com/"]Digg Reader[/URL] - Only just released as a private beta (I've managed to get in), the guys behind the revamp of Digg after the enormous fail of Digg V4 have also come up with their own replacement. It's really basic at the minute (I mean, really),
but the interface is very minimalist and eye-pleasing, it's very similar to the old interface of Google Reader and is also lightweight and fast. They've been doing a lot of research into what users want ([URL]http://www.rethinkdigg.com[/URL]) and hopefully this will turn out to also be a good replacement to Google Reader and a competitor to Feedly. You can import your feeds automatically from Google Reader too.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZIHS8Yc.png[/IMG]
[URL="http://reader.aol.com"]AOL Reader[/URL] - Another private beta here, but I've also managed to get into America Online's new 'Reader' service. It looks well designed from an aesthetic point of view and has potential (Again, it's in beta), but it seems to have problems importing both the file from Google Takeout and Google Reader directly. Not a great start to be honest. Maybe in a few weeks this might be a bit nicer but we'll have to see. I hear they have a monetization programme ready to be put in place (I'm not sure what that entails) but that's always good to hear.
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[URL="http://newsblur.com"]NewsBlur[/URL] - Not a fan of this myself, seems very clunky and you have to pay to have more than a specific amount of feeds and some other things. You can import feeds from Google Reader and it does have some very nice features, like tag support and 'full site' support directly in the page. It's open to signups but you'll have to wait for your account to be 'activated' (They have a queue system in for some reason).
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TL;DR: Google Reader is shutting down on the 1st July. Lots of alternatives have sprung up. What are you going to use?[/B]
Currently using Owncloud's RSS extension for my RSS feeds.
I like having as much services as possible hosted on my own servers, so I don't have to rely on others (IE. Google reader). And i don't have to worry about it getting taken offline.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;41228254]Currently using Owncloud's RSS extension for my RSS feeds.
I like having as much services as possible hosted on my own servers, so I don't have to rely on others (IE. Google reader). And i don't have to worry about it getting taken offline.[/QUOTE]
Owncloud is great for a lot of things, I didn't realize it had an RSS extension though. I'll have to check that out.
Less than 24 hours remaining!
Rest in peace, Google Reader. I'll miss you dearly.
Here's a bigger list replacements (with my honest opinion), for those who are still looking:
[b]Feedly[/b] - free, cloud+GRAPI, company
Very nice UI but has some tiny annoyances such as no visual indication when marking as unread.
[b]Digg Reader[/b] - free & future premium, cloud+GRAPI, company
Decent UI but has [i]no mark as unread feature[/i] yet.
[b]AOL Reader[/b] - free & ads, cloud+GRAPI, conglomerate company
UI very similar to Google Reader.
Painfully slow feed refreshing (if non-existant).
[b]NewsBlur[/b] - free & $24/year premium, cloud
Very nice interface. Plenty of features.
Premium lets you subscribe to more than 64 feeds and has a "10x" refresh rate.
This is probably my choice.
[b]Alt[/b] - free, NewsBlur interface
An alternative interface to NewsBlur.
Seems nice, but pretty featureless.
[b]NetVibes[/b] - free & VIP & corporate, cloud, small company
A whole lot more than a feed reader.
Very monolithic and feature-filled, designed for company publicity management but has been modified to cater for generic feed aggregation.
Personally, I like the Widgets idea (which allows for custom feeds from various APIs, like GMail).
The reader UI is very nice as well.
[b]BazQux Reader[/b] - 30-day trial & $9/year min paid, cloud+GRAPI, one person
This has a lot of potential.
UI is really nice and you can 'Readability-ise' any item by pressing "g".
Currently, feed refreshing is really slow if not completely stopped.
(plus it's written in Haskell by one person who seems to really know what they're doing!)
I'd like this to be my choice, but it's just too undeveloped at the moment. I've paid $19 for a year just to see where it goes.
[b]The Old Reader[/b] - free & donations, cloud+GRAPI, small team
Interface identical to the old Google Reader, when there was a built-in social aspect.
Currently, feed refresh rate is a little slow.
[b]Hive Reader[/b] - free, cloud+GRAPI, small team funded by [url=http://www.tivix.com/]a generous small company[/url]
Very nice UI, but still needs fixing up.
[b]TinyTinyRSS[/b] - free & donations, self-hosted, small community
[b]RSSOwl[/b] - free & donations, desktop Java client with GRAPI syncing, small community
Personally I've moved to [URL="http://www.feedafever.com/"]Fever[/URL], a paid self-hosted PHP app. Having applied some CSS tweaks, it behaves pretty much identically to Google Reader
[img_thumb]http://imgkk.com/i/05s2.png[/img_thumb]
And being self-hosted, it means you can do things like saving every article it fetches forever, refreshing every minute, etc.
I'm using TinyTiny RSS right now, I'm pretty happy with it though it's a bit tricky to setup.
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[editline]29th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;41239458]Personally I've moved to [URL="http://www.feedafever.com/"]Fever[/URL], a paid self-hosted PHP app. Having applied some CSS tweaks, it behaves pretty much identically to Google Reader
[img_thumb]http://imgkk.com/i/05s2.png[/img_thumb]
And being self-hosted, it means you can do things like saving every article it fetches forever, refreshing every minute, etc.[/QUOTE]
I wish there was an Android app, it looks a lot more polished.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;41239475]I wish there was an Android app, it looks a lot more polished.[/QUOTE]
Support is coming to [URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twentyfivesquares.press&hl=en"]Press[/URL] soon and there's also an app called Meltdown but it's fucking awful
The mobile web UI is also pretty nice, but it's extremely iphone-targeted and even Jellybean's hardware acceleration isn't enough for it to run anywhere near acceptably smoothly without a massive amount of tweaks to remove the dumb shadows and corners and shit
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