augustabound Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I'm test driving Feedly, The Old Reader and Netvibes. I'm leaning toward Netvibes since it combines my Google Reader with my iGoogle homepage more of less. I just can't get all the same widgets that I had with iGoogle though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Apparently digg is working on a google reader replacement. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/inside_digg_reader/all/ http://digg.com/reader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yours Truly Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I've migrated to feedly but awaiting for the Reeder app to support it I do the majority of my reading on my iphone/ipad combo and the feedly app isn't cutting it unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I've migrated to feedly but awaiting for the Reeder app to support it I use feedly on firefox. The old method was to use a browser add-on. The new method starting yesterday is to delete your browser add-on, restart firefox and then go here: http://www.feedly.com/index.html No browser add-on is required now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txlaw Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 One thing re: Feedly. If you have the browser add-on from Firefox, you may want to consider disabling the Feedly Mini. But you don't really the need browser add-on anyway, as rkbabang just pointed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wellmont Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I've migrated to feedly but awaiting for the Reeder app to support it I use feedly on firefox. The old method was to use a browser add-on. The new method starting yesterday is to delete your browser add-on, restart firefox and then go here: http://www.feedly.com/index.html No browser add-on is required now. the addon puts a nice little button in handy place on the browser. :) I am keeping mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I've migrated to feedly but awaiting for the Reeder app to support it I use feedly on firefox. The old method was to use a browser add-on. The new method starting yesterday is to delete your browser add-on, restart firefox and then go here: http://www.feedly.com/index.html No browser add-on is required now. the addon puts a nice little button in handy place on the browser. :) I am keeping mine. I never used the button anyway. I'm not sure if it is an add-on I'm using (I've got a ton of them installed) or a feature of firefox, but when I right click on a tab I get the option to "pin tab". This makes that tab permanent, so it is always there. My permanent tabs are gmail, feedly, yahoo portfolio, my yahoo watchlist, facebook and Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax. These tabs are just permanent fixtures on my browser. Also the mini tab extension is a must so that you can have tons of tabs open and you see only the favicon unless that tab is selected, I currently have 26 tabs open and they only reach about 2/3rds of the way across the tab bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tengen Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 After a few attempts, I've finally moved from Google Reader to Feedly. At first I was dismayed by Feedly lumping all my feeds together. For example, in Reader, I had my investment related feeds grouped under the label "investment". Reader still let me select and read each feed individually. Feedly doesn't appear to allow this. To work around the issue, I have my feeds all labelled with unique labels (e.g. "investment-abc"). Slightly annoying but no big deal as I used the occasion to whittle down my subscriptions to 10 feeds (including non-investment ones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 I don't know what you are using it on, but on the firefox version of feedly you can hit "index" and get a list of all your feeds, then just click on one to read it. You can set the index page to be your default page in the settings. I prefer the firefox feedly to the iPad feedly app for this reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yours Truly Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 After a few attempts, I've finally moved from Google Reader to Feedly. At first I was dismayed by Feedly lumping all my feeds together. For example, in Reader, I had my investment related feeds grouped under the label "investment". Reader still let me select and read each feed individually. Feedly doesn't appear to allow this. To work around the issue, I have my feeds all labelled with unique labels (e.g. "investment-abc"). Slightly annoying but no big deal as I used the occasion to whittle down my subscriptions to 10 feeds (including non-investment ones). I hated how Feedly combines all the feeds into one large one.. I like them seperated just like how they are in Reader Heads up: Digg has a reader built into their app that was just released today and it does a good job at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tengen Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 I don't know what you are using it on, but on the firefox version of feedly you can hit "index" and get a list of all your feeds, then just click on one to read it. You can set the index page to be your default page in the settings. I prefer the firefox feedly to the iPad feedly app for this reason. Great tip, thanks! I've set the "index" to be my Feedly start page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 I just got the email invite today to try the digg reader. It looks more like google reader than feedly does, but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep using it or not, I've gotten used to Feedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meiroy Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 reader.aol.com is quite good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yours Truly Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Reeder for iOS updated their app to allow for Feedly which is terrific! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkhet Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Reeder for iOS updated their app to allow for Feedly which is terrific! That's great -- I hope he updates the iPad app soon as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meiroy Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 reader.aol.com is quite good so far so good. It's quite fast and reliable, much better than feedly that's for sure. Has anyone found better alternatives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rijk Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 this seems to be working very well... regards rijk http://www.goread.io/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Looks all these need Google acct because they connect to google in the background. Anything which does not require the google id? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d29 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Looks all these need Google acct because they connect to google in the background. Anything which does not require the google id? First time poster, long time lurker here. InoReader is the best Google Reader alternative so far and I've tried a couple (feedly, feedspot, aol, digg, newsblur just to name a couple). It is very similar to Google Reader, it gets developed very rapidly and they respond and react to feedback. Their Android app is in beta right now yet miles better than anything I've tried. You can also register without a Google or Facebook account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Looks all these need Google acct because they connect to google in the background. Anything which does not require the google id? Netvibes. I chose it because it kind of combines my Google reader and iGoogle home page. It is lacking as a permanent home page like iGoogle is but I like the reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Thanks d29 and augustabound ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G2 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I second d29's inoreader rec. Gmail account not required to set up account and it can be removed at any time. A google reader clone with very similar layout and keyboard short-cuts. Easy to navigate preferences. Very happy with it as it'll be my primary tool to track RSS feeds for EDGAR filings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with Feedly or use InoReader, there are things I like and dislike about each. But one thing I discovered which made it easier to try out InoReader was that you can export all of your feeds from Feedly in OPML format then import them into InoReader (and likely any other reader as well). This is necessary, because logging in with your Google ID no longer does it now that Google Reader is gone. To export from Feedly go here http://cloud.feedly.com/#opml , select all of the text on the page and copy it to the clipboard, open a text editor and paste it in. Then save the file as feedly.opml You can then import this into InoReader in the settings. You will have all of your feeds organized into all of your categories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASTA Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 want to maybe upgrade your rss feed $5 a month http://www.techspot.com/news/53501-feedly-goes-pro-starting-at-5-per-month-adds-search-and-better-security.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfp Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Back when this happened I ended up switching to Digg Reader. Today they say they are shutting down the RSS reader March 26th... Anyone have a current RSS reader favorite that doesn't cost anything per month? Doesn't seem like it should cost $5 per month to use RSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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