@CB: After a week or two with TheOldReader, I'd say your experiences were just high server load on their end. The service has been behaving as I'd expect lately, which is to say exactly like Reader does.
Anyone with access to web hosting (or who has a good home connection and can set up a LAMP stack on some piece of hardware at home) should really check out Tiny Tiny RSS. I've been loving it even more than Google Reader.
I have yet to find a replacement I'm happy with. As far as I can tell, Feedly is just interfacing with my Google reader account, so it will go offline when reader does. I was using The Old Reader for a while, but then I noticed that everything was getting to my feed 2-12 hours late, which I couldn't. Those are the only two which had the features I needed otherwise.
I have yet to find a replacement I'm happy with. As far as I can tell, Feedly is just interfacing with my Google reader account, so it will go offline when reader does. I was using The Old Reader for a while, but then I noticed that everything was getting to my feed 2-12 hours late, which I couldn't. Those are the only two which had the features I needed otherwise.
For now, I'm back on gReader. :/
Feedly is currently interfacing with gReader but will (according to them) be importing the actual feeds and transitioning them to their own storage before the gReader cutoff date. They claim they will do this seamlessly, we will see.
If you feel like trying Tiny Tiny RSS, shoot me an Icrontic PM, I'll set you up an account on my tt-rss install. No admin skills necessary, just login and import your feeds from a Google Takeout dump.
So, I tried Commafeed and TheOldReader. I also tried to setup Tiny Tiny RSS and couldn't get it to run. (I lacked the patience to look through the code and find out why.) In the end, I signed up for Newsblur's premium account. I'm quite happy with it... until the next big thing comes along.
Yeah this is approaching like a freight train and I am still pretending it isn't going away. I haven't found anything that works like what I want. I guess i kept hoping google would change their minds before the deadline.
Yeah this is approaching like a freight train and I am still pretending it isn't going away. I haven't found anything that works like what I want. I guess i kept hoping google would change their minds before the deadline.
^This. I did try both Feedly and CommaFeed, and was a fan of neither, so went back to hiding my head in the sand. Suppose I need to stop that.
@Thrax I guess my real problem w/ CommaFeed was the import itself, which was shitty, and I really didn't want to go through and figure out ALL of the feeds I lost of the 100 or so I subscribe to. It also DID import all of the stuff I'd already read as unread, even for feeds that are no longer active or had an updated URL, and having to go through that backlog sounded too daunting so I gave up. Does this make me a slacker and lazy, absolutely, but this is not something I want to spend hours re-curating :/
Still in love with tt-rss here... especially the fact that I'm not tying myself to yet another company that could pull the rug out from under me. It can also be tweaked to work just like Google Reader (even has a plugin that changes the keyboard shortcuts to match Google Reader, though I've found the defaults are more usable once you get used to them).
I'm still willing to set any Icrontian up with a tt-rss account on my install if they want it.
AOL just released their RSS reader today, and it's a fantastic clone of GReader with many features of its own. The killer about this one is that they actually have a mobile app, which none of the other solutions in this thread can offer.
AOL just released their RSS reader today, and it's a fantastic clone of GReader with many features of its own. The killer about this one is that they actually have a mobile app, which none of the other solutions in this thread can offer.
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It's currently a little slow as it gets slaughtered by Reddit.
For now, I'm back on gReader. :/
If you feel like trying Tiny Tiny RSS, shoot me an Icrontic PM, I'll set you up an account on my tt-rss install. No admin skills necessary, just login and import your feeds from a Google Takeout dump.
Just wanted to share my two cents.
I'm still willing to set any Icrontian up with a tt-rss account on my install if they want it.
I'm sticking with this one.
Hosting your own: https://github.com/mjibson/goread