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2.5 Weeks to Google Reader Shutdown, what are people moving to?

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psydii

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I make heavy use of ReederApp but I'm not tied to it. Anyone made the leap to a new RSS aggregation and synchronisation service that offers an API to apps? Edited by psydii
Geoff

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Using the old reader. Only using it for my podcast feeds so it's fine for me. Wish I could find an android client though.
russdev

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Liking NewsBlur but my major bug bear is that they only keep last two weeks. That meant some feeds that I read every few weeks I would lose those posts. Tried old reader before but import did not work due to load etc. Might try it again and see how I go with it.

 

 

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jha

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Now trying Feedly, any tips on good feeds to add?

 

There's a nice little suggested feeds button (top left on the browser version).

 

Then the usual - Engadget, MacRumours, 9to5mac, lifehacker, etc..

mats

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Feedly's interface was too weird for me. It'd use tiny tiny rss if I had a hosting account going spare so it's the Old Reader for now. As above, needs an android client.
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Arthur

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The State of Google Reader Replacements

 

Before Google Reader shuts down on Monday, I think the following caveat about Feedly is worth highlighting.

 

While Feedly is a great, easy drop-in replacement for Reader, there’s one big caveat: it does not export. Once you're in Feedly, there’s currently no way out. (All the more reason to save your Google Reader export!) The developers of Feedly have stated on Twitter that OPML export is on the roadmap. However, we encourage taking developer promises with a grain of salt, as it’s always possible that export will never be added. In theory, you could export your subscriptions from a third-party client, but that isn't yet a reality.

 

To export your RSS subscriptions from Google Reader visit the URL below before 1st July.

 

http://www.google.com/reader/subscriptions/export

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Lmsgpm2012

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I'm using Reeder on my mac. Works quite well in that it's simple to use and updates as often as I choose. I tend to read these feeds between doing jobs for just a couple of minutes at a time, throughout the day, so I want the interface to be as simple as possible.
psydii

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DfE RSS Feeds

MS Technet Blogs RSS Feeds

MS Hotfix RSS feeds

Interesting bloggers feeds

Apple Support RSS feeds

RSS Feeds from websites that carry articles that interest me. (including the edugeek feed)

 

 

Twitter is just too noisy, and doesn't offer offline reading, and you *always* have to consume the real information via a browser, where as reader apps provide (usually) a superior reading experience to native website. It is also too immediate and of the moment. Many of the RSS feeds I subscribe to are infrequently updated. If i followed them with twitter, the chances are that I'd miss the interesting stuff. I do use twitter too.

 

If I wan NEWS I'll go visit a NEWS website.

 

 

I also buy books, quaint I know.

psydii

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Only hours to go before Reader shuts down.

 

Feedly now has OMPL 'export' (on the organise page you can view your feeds in OMPL, copy-paste and there's your file). Looks like the quickest hacked together thing I have seen on the modern web. Kudos to them for "just doing it" so we're not locked in. I'm sure it will be prettier/more functional as time allows.

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