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Comment by thesethings | Hacker News Reader

The no-sharing/discovery thing has hit me hard.

If anybody out there has a social RSS reader start-up, feel free to reply to this and advertise your service. I will drag my friends to it along with me.

(Yes, I use Twitter, Instapaper, news aggregate sites, etc. Yes social software has changed how i would otherwise discover links/news. But I still need an RSS reader, and the passive sharing in old Google Reader is a layer of social that one takes for granted in almost any app. I get why they took it out (they think they're helping G+), but it doesn't work for me.)

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We are working on startup: http://intigi.com. You can subscribe to your RSS or Twitter feeds and then filter the feeds by your interests (i.e., using keywords).

In terms of social features, you can make any interest public and share it with others. You can also follow or fork any of the public interests (like Github).

We are in early stages with the social features (and overall product) and would really appreciate any feedback/input! You can email me at mjfern@intigi.com or use the feedback button throughout the site.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, signing up, and kicking the tires. You'll be hearing from me.

Awesome. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks!

I have no problem with the new Reader, but this sounds cool, signing up and trying it out :)

Great. Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks!

Looks really promising. Signed up just now.

Thanks! :-) Please let me know your thoughts about the application.

damn, I fell for it again: joined, didn't particularly like it, decided to delete my account... and there is no way to do it.

Sigh. You guys keep doing this, and sooner or later some EU commissioner with half a brain will crack down on the practice, and then we'll all be poorer.

I've deleted your account. :-) We're still in Beta. Can you be specific about what you didn't like? Please email me at mjfern@intigi.com. Thanks in advance! Michael

I dislike it too. I signed up with serverdensity to try it out, and after 4 separate email exchanges with support -- each one asking for my account to be delete...it still hasn't happened. I keep getting brush off replies like 'have you tried X?' and 'Are you sure?'.

The service itself wasn't bad (I had some feedback that was likewise ignored/brush off), but I would never recommend them to anyone for this reason alone.

I can't agree more. At least they allow us to download our data as JSON file. I used the sharing feature a lot. I just downloaded my shared-items.json file and it is 56.3MB large!

I already tried Tiny Tiny RSS and NewsBlur but I don't really like them. There's rssLounge left, I'll try it tomorrow if I have enough time. Does anyone knows another one of these opensource webapp feed aggragator?

For now, I'll continue sharing using icebraining tips (to create a tag).

Hey, NewsBlur's developer here. What didn't you like about NewsBlur? Lots in the pipeline, but I loves hearing what's off-putting so I can fix it for everybody.

I like Newsblur more than the last time I tried -- I just signed up for a premium account. However, I'm still slightly frustrated because of this:

In Google Reader, I liked to look at all the feeds in a category and just see all the posts from each of those feeds in the reading pane, most recent first. I can almost do the same thing in NewsBlur with the "river of news," but it only shows me unread posts, which is usually OK but it's nice sometimes to be able to easily scroll back and re-read an older post without having to go dig up that feed.

Is there a way you could add an option to replicate the Reader-like behavior of showing the posts in a folder chronologically?

I'm actually really fan of how Google Reader worked. But I can change my habits to use a free (as in freedom) software, that's not a problem. However, I didn't find how to create a feed of shared items, and that's a huge deal-breaker for me, I really need this feature (like I said in my previous comment, I use it a lot). Also, I'd love an Android app…

I develop one called Lilina which aims to be themable and pluggable, and offers APIs to that effect. I'd love to have feedback on it and see if it suits your needs.

http://getlilina.org/

Thanks so much for posting, checking it out.

I just read an article (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/sharebros-...) about a service called Hivemined that some people are currently putting together. I'm hoping that since the impetus for building this new service is the destruction of Reader, it will actually be a worthy replacement. Fingers crossed...

Thanks for posting this. Can't believe I missed it. Seems this guy is riding a wave of outrage/Internet meme fun.

Well, create a Tag, get that Tag's feed from its Details and Statistics page, then your friends can subscribe to it as any other feed.

That's not the same. You still can't add a note and your friends can't comment on the item, for starters.

You can add multiple tags, so you could had your well-known "Shared" tag and then a comment as tag.

That's still a half-solution. What if I want to make a multiline note?

Also, that doesn't solve the problem that others can't comment on the shared item.

Thanks for this cool idea :D I will set it up at least for now.

But it doesn't solve the discovery part- having a place where I can see everything my friends are sharing- unless they do it too.

I'm happy with Netvibes. It has a widget view like iGoogle and a Reader view like Google Reader. I find the latter to be better now. It integrates with Facebook and Twitter, if it's the kind of social stuff you want. It won't push what others like to you, however. That's what Twitter is for.

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