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I'm on the move from Greader to something else because of their Greader/G+ tighter integration. And I'm far from being the only one in this case. Didn't they learn anything from the Greader mistake?

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Well Google normally goes by the numbers, so I question whether your assertion matches what they're seeing.

I guess not yet. Alternative to Greader do not meet my needs (either you can't produce a feed of shared items that others can subscribe to with any feed reader, or the UX is to poor), so I'm developping my own (which will be released as soon as possible, there's still a bit of work before it can actually be used and I'm in my exams + school project period) and it takes some time. Time during which I'm still using Greader, of course…

I get my feeds delivered to me using this: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

They're all filtered into a single folder. I can read them from any of my email clients. K-9 on my phone, Thunderbird on my laptop, Roundcube webmail on my work machine.

I don't have to install a dedicated feed reader. I don't have to use a web based feed reader.

I read an item on one device, it is marked as read on all of them. I delete an item on one device, it is deleted on all of them.

Before anyone suggests Thunderbirds built in RSS feed capability, it's rubbish. And it wouldn't let me share feeds cross-device, so it doesn't meet my requirements.

The Brief addon to Firefox is working well for me. It's local, not cloud, and not social, but I don't care about either of those. I like the interface much better than GReader's.

In fact, I'm following many more blogs than I did with GReader, and I can skim through much faster than I could with GReader.

EDIT: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

and i'm loving the tighter G+ integration. And far from being the only one in this case. What was your point?

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