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Comment by mmanfrin | Hacker News Reader

I'm still sore about Google Reader. I haven't found another reader that has quite found the right UX to replace it.

InoReader https://www.inoreader.com/ is the closest I've found to Google Reader. Happily using it for several years already.

https://bazqux.com/ was the closest i found in terms of UI and performance with the amount of feeds/items i go through (~1000 items/day) - Been pretty happy with it since Google Reader shutdown

How on earth do you manage to keep up with 1000 items / day? I barely manage 1/10th of that and I'm a pretty fast reader.

Please enlighten me, it sounds like you hold a secret that would substantially improve my life.

I don't read 1000/day, but I do step through 1,000 - I scan a headline/summary, hit "j" and move on for the vast majority of them. Some i'll star and come back to later, for others the first sentence of the summary is really enough to learn something about what's going on.. eg "vulnerability found in XYZ" is useful to tuck away in the back of my mind, but that's all i need.

Others are the same story reported by multiple sources; obvious from the headline.

I leave it open in a pinned tab and when i want to kill a minute or two, i'll scan through a few more posts and open a few to actually read.

The reason i like Bazqux is that it can keep up no matter how fast i hit "j". It's no prettier than Google Reader does, has few more bells/whistles, but if you really want to speed through items, save and search, it's great.

In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.

Thank you!

> In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.

About a decade ago - when the state of the art really wasn't up to it yet - I invested some money in a start-up that was attempting to achieve just that. They eventually turned to greener pastures and are still alive but I am still hopeful that someone will manage to put this together. I'd be more than happy to pay for such a thing.

Which reminds me of another dead product I used to use to do exactly this: Yahoo Pipes.

Reading 1000 things a day would probably make me suicidal

I use https://theoldreader.com, it seems to work quite well, and I've been using it since Google Reader shut down.

I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. There's even a working Windows Phone app (TORUC) for those of us still avoiding Apple or Google.

I've taken out a subscription in the hope that it will last longer than Google Reader or Bloglines (anybody remember that?).

YES! Been using Bloglines as long as possible. It took Google Reader quite a while to outperform Bloglines back then.

Last I checked alternatives, I liked g2reader.com slightly better than theoldreader.com, though I use it just very occasionally.

NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com/) is not quite the same, but it fits the bill for me.

Are you an Emacs user? My journey was Google Reader -> Newsblur -> elfeed (on Emacs). I only abandoned Newsblur because of an ongoing project to Emacsify my digital life.

Now I will have to look for the Vim alternative.

Have you heard of Evil?

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

IMO - and I speak as someone who loves Emacs so much he has email, organisation, TODOs, calendaring, IRC, RSS and more in Emacs - vi actually does a better job of the mechanics of text editing.

Evil gives you the best of both worlds - the Emacs platform, and vi editing.

Same here, but I've used Digg Reader (yes) for a long time after trying a few and it's been great. Depends on how you like it of course.

Yeah, why don't they just open source it, and hand it to the community?

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