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Comment by ChuckMcM | Hacker News Reader

Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.

I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable.

Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc.

I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...

I don't know if this is considered blatent advertising or not. But I worked pretty hard on getting my chrome extension replacement for google reader done. I would love it if people would check it out. I made it because I couldn't stand the UI for Google Reader in the first place. I'm open to adding features like short cut keys ( fairly easy to implement) Please check it out at http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH

No way to import?

I'm currently using JSON to hold feeds but creating a JSON string from OPML should be lemon squeezy... Great idea. Thank you.

Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.

Well I'm not sure how I can convince you other than to say it is quite like running another web page on your browser. Quite literally. Chrome extensions are built using HTML, CSS and Javascript just like anything else on the web.

The reason I think this extension makes sense is purely because users should have control over the way in which they read and see content. I'm not a big fan of restrictions being imposed on us just because some designer somewhere thought that's the way it should be. I've built in an editor that let's you create your own viewing interface. Give it a shot!

The RSS reader of www.netvibes.com isn't that bad.

What are you looking for in a reader? I develop one called Lilina, which aims to be pluggable and themeable, so I'd love to know what sort of things I should be focusing on.

(If you'd like to check it out, http://getlilina.org/ )

Here's my problem, and I recognize that it is my problem, not yours.

As soon as I see that something was written in PHP, my prejudices announce that it is probably badly written and full of security holes.

I like it! It is nice and simple. I hope you keep it that way. I think it will be replacing my Google Reader. Two features that would make it perfect for me:

- Get rid of the sidebar completely and just allow to navigate through feeds with j and k keys.

- Ability to save posts for later.

Does it handle smartphone/tablets correctly ? (my current online RSS reader is really not good at that)

Can I try it out online without downloading and installing it?

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