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Comment by est | Hacker News Reader

I feel abandoned after Google Reader shutdown. I never got engaged with daily long text reading again.

I never fail to upvote anyone who mentions this. I will never let Google live this down, in whatever small, spiteful way I can.

As always I will point out that The Old Reader is basically a carbon copy of Google Reader. It works, plenty of blogs have RSS feeds still (I just add more or less every interesting blog I see linked here in there), so you can get back if you want to.

It's not exactly the same, but it sure feels close!

RSS readers dime a dozen, nothing feels close to Google Reader + Google+ (circles lol), having friends on your contact list who were RSS users automatically linked to your reading social circle.

I use Inoreader for its social features. Closest I have experienced on RSS since the old days. Of course, my RSS social circle ended up fracturing and some went to feedly, etc.

Nothing matches the content that filled Google Reader though. It was buzzing, very much like HN.

Thank you for the recommendation.

As the opposite, more minimalistic approach, I started to create different thematic feeds in newsfeed (a terminal reader), and I quite like the result. I check different sources, but it demotivates me to spend too much time with it.

Maybe not a perfect replacement, but have you tried Feedly? https://feedly.com/

I see this all the time and while at the time I thought the same there's so many good alternatives these days, even better than back then. All the interesting and small websites I want to follow still have RSS feeds so I feel like we can move on.

The two I use for many years already are:

- https://miniflux.app (OS, Minimal, web interface and can be used with all clients that support Fever or Google Reader API)

- https://reederapp.com (iOS, Mac)

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