Comment by applefangirl | Hacker News Reader

Comment by applefangirl | Hacker News Reader

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I guess it's a matter of opinion because Feedly's interface looks cluttered to me. It's not a bad offender for a webapp but compared to other feed readers its interface is IMO busy.

Also a matter of opinion but app developers IMO shouldn't use their apps to market. I've already got an email app and a Feed reader. If I want to keep up with you I'll subscribe to your mailing list or follow your feed.

I disable auto-update because I get annoyed when apps tell me about new versions (and I have privacy concerns.) I wont consider using an app that doesn't let me disable auto update. I already have a strategy to keep my software up-to-date that works on my schedule.

I recognize I'm sensitive to these things but that doesn't mean they aren't justified or don't make sense. They just don't make sense * to you *.

Tangential: if updates bother you, you might want to give NetGuard a try (not affiliated). FOSS, though the pro version license costs $5 iirc. It is a great way to make apps behave nicely - even Firefox is too chatty (telemetry & co.) for my taste. Since updates are often from a different domain, you can just block them. How it works is that all the traffic on the phone is routed through a local (just an app on your phone!) VPN where it can be logged and filtered. Brilliant idea.

As a bonus, it is also very satisfying watching apps try to connect to various ad networks and spy agencies^W^W Google unsuccessfully.

I use a similiar app on my Mac. It helps me catch poorly behaving apps so I can remove them.

PiHole is similar to this but self-hosted (and also blocks ads)

NetGuard is on-device, can't get much more 'self-hosted' than that. Can PiHole filter per-app though? I wouldn't have thought so. NG can and it's the main reason I use it.

What does look cluttered to you in Feedly?

Just don't use the web app?

I've been using Feedly since Google Reader shut down and I've visited their site like once every six months.

I use Newsify on iOS and ReadKit on my Mac.

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