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Comment by Ascetik | Hacker News Reader

>miss Google Reader

Feedly

Feedly is a load of crap. They are force-feeding (no pun intended) you their “””curated””” (read: sponsored) news sources while making it intentionally hard to add your own sources. Last time I’ve checked there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually - you have to “search” for the given site, and hope that their magic algorithm picks up the presence of an RSS feed... Absolutely useless.

Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL.

I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasional banner message up the top which is easily dismissed.

edit: I have by default feedly set to my "all" feed and in that respect it works much like google reader used to.

I’m using the Feedly iOS app. I went to “Add content”, and it opened a sidebar with a searchbox which supposedly lets you “search” for content by “title, URL or #topic”. I’ve entered the URL of the archive.org feed ( http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php ) and it says: “No sources found. If you are looking for a specific site, please enter the full URL.”

Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.

I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader went away. It's easy to add my own sources. I don't know anything about force-fed news sources; I've never seen anything like that.

>there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually

That's not true at all. At least in the web version this was an option from the very beginning.

Pasting the feed URL into the search box works 100% of the time.

No, it is actually a RSS reader. It just tries to solve the information overload problem by curating the news sources for you. If you have a small number of sources you still can get to all of the information. In order to add a feed, just paste in the rss link and its in your reader.

I use Reeder on my iPad and add RSS feeds individually to the app. There is a section where I can add a Feedly account to the app. Does that provide any advantages over directly adding the RSS feeds?

Syncing: read stuff in bed on your iPad/Reeder, get up, login to www.feedly.com and find your unread list in the same state.

Other than that, feedly offers a few features you might be interested in: search, filters, alerts, highlights, etc.

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