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Ask HN: Which blog aggregators do you use?

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Four months ago I started a personal blog after returning from PyCon full of energy to write.

While I was there, one speaker gave me a tip to help distribute posts by joining a blog aggregator. That one in particular was Planet Python (http://planetpython.org), a "feed of feeds" for hundreds of Python blogs. This is working well, and I haven't been able to find anything else quite like it for other domains.

[Before I started I thought no one would read, but I've been lucky to have over 4k total unique visitors in less than six months with most traffic coming from Hacker News, Reddit, and Twitter.]

I'm wondering two things:

1. As an author, are there other blog aggregators out there to submit to for startups, entrepreneurs, software engineers, etc?

2. As a reader, do you subscribe to anything like an aggregated feed? If not, how do you follow the startups and people you care about?

I've been a blog junkie for the last 15+ years, and have accumulated a very large list of blogs that I read. Some of them are aggregators, and there's also a variety of individual blogs as well.

The main aggregators I subscribe to are DZone, EchoJS, JavascriptKicks, and PlanetPython. (I also still subscribe to a few .NET-related aggregators, like CodeBetter, MSDN Blogs, etc, but tend to just automatically mark those feeds as read).

I've also finally set up a Twitter account and started following a number of people, primarily those in the React community.

If anyone's actually interested, I've posted a copy of my tech blog subscription list at http://www.isquaredsoftware.com/files/bazqux-reader-subscrip... . Probably a bit crufty and some dead blogs in there I need to prune, but there ya go.

This is a great list. Thanks for the share.

Out of curiosity, do you run BazQux Reader? I noticed some traffic coming from it Google Analytics the other day for this post [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618741

Erm... I _use_ BazQux Reader, but I definitely don't own and operate it, if that's what you're asking :)

Used to use Google Reader before it died. BazQux was by far the most similar tool I could find as a replacement, and I've been incredibly happy with it. It Just Works, and is totally worth every penny of the subscription. (Ditto for Pinboard.)

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