Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying? Feedly was having issues so it started me looking for alternatives. Then, I saw some news about Minimal Reader and their free accounts and I'm interested in trying it but was wondering: What feed reader do you recommend trying? Is it even necessary to have a feed service if you have a native app instead? * Edit: Feedly is no longer down, so I modified the title/question. |
There's a small fee, but it's been absolutely worth every penny. The guy's been able to upgrade servers with demand and spend time on improving the interface (particularly for mobile). There are also third-party apps compatible with it, but I haven't found any of them to be as good as the mobile web interface.
It hasn't been perfect (there've been occasional glitches, mostly involving UI slowness), but problems get corrected quickly and the app has continually improved since I signed up, shortly after Reader died. I've been overwhelmingly delighted with it.
As for app vs. service, I've found services useful for keeping everything painlessly synched across devices and computers. It would depend on your feed-reading habits.
I've been using it since Google Reader shut down and happily signed up for the premium account (allows for over 100 feeds, among other benefits) when they started imposing a limit on the number of feeds.
Here's a demo: http://river-demo.ericdavis.org/
The README is a bit out of date now, but it all works. I've been using it as my sole RSS reader for the past few months now.
I considered screenshots but it's hard to show anything cool since it's all vanilla firefox UI. Here's an attempt: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Is it helpful?
Disclaimer: I run https://minimalreader.com