Hacker News Reader

Comment by blihp | Hacker News Reader

Yes, there were 2-3 other (mostly web-based) services that stepped in with Feedly being the main one. However, by that time the popular client-side tools had been pretty much been wiped out due to years of Google's free offering. For some of us, that's what killed the user-facing RSS market. (I was so fed up I ended up cobbling together my own solution... far from anything polished but I'm happier with it than I was with any of the offerings available at the time)

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I went years without consuming RSS until I discovered Fraidy Cat[1] here at Hacker News.

1. https://fraidyc.at

me too but i came back with yarr reader https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

This actually looks a better paradigm than the firehose of RSS feeds (even if grouped by tags/categories). Thank you for sharing this.

Perfect! Thank you.

Yeah, I was a huge fan of FeedDemon at the time. Unfortunately, it was updated to be primarily a local Google Reader client and lost many users to Google Reader itself. Development stopped around the time Reader was canceled. I ended up switching to Newsblur and have been using it ever since through (mostly) the web interface. I've switched to Mac/iOS since then as well and have tried out NetNewsWire and Reeder. Both are excellent and sync with Newsblur, but neither support Newsblur's social features, which are important to me.

I love being able to read others' comments, leave my own, and receive replies from a community of folks who are all committed enough to RSS as a medium to keep at it. I find it provides a significant amount of value. It also aids in discovery of new blogs/sites that I've ended up following directly over the years.

I never looked at clients other than the Reeder app (not google reader), but that is iOS and Mac only.

Even supports local pulling (not sure if it always did though, never thought to check until now).

I imagine that didn't help Google's situation either. Here I was using their servers and never going to the website except to do the occasional subscription modification.

I still use NetNewsWire.

Reeder also uses iCloud for syncing which is what I’m using since I’m already paying for the service (iCloud).

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