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Google Reader closes in 11 days, which service are you using?

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It's been a little over 3 months since Google announced that they are discontinuing service for Reader on July 1st. Now that the alternatives have had just about all the time they're going to get before the last of Reader's users find a new service, I am wondering what HN's recommendations are. How are your new services treating you and who is best to replace the gap which Reader is leaving?

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Tiny Tiny RSS on Heroku - http://projectdelphai.github.io/blog/2013/03/15/replacing-go...

I like it because its free and I own the data. While it may be more difficult to set up than other online services such as feedly, old reader, or newsbleur, at least I get to have control over the service. Even if Heroku goes down, I can just move the application to another hosting site (such as openshift or linode).

If you don't go this route, I would also suggest Feedly. It's a great beautiful service, but just wasn't right for what I wanted and I didn't like how they handled certain things.

disclaimer: the link is my own post.

I'm using it until it dies. None of the alternatives work for me. I only use it as a back-end for NetNewsWire, and only open NNW a few times a week.

I get a kick out it daily, "I'm not dead yet!"

I've been meaning to look at other options, like newsblur, but I'm still checking my feeds on Reader.

I am using http://www.feedsapi.org for now in combination with Evernote to forward all my RSS News stories there and with Feedly for ready RSS, works quite good for me and supports Hacker News Ful content RSS.

Disclaimer: I am involved in http://www.feedsapi.org

I'm using http://yoleoreader.com which was mentioned here a few weeks ago. It has a couple bugs and lacks mobile but I really like the aesthetic and the attitude of the developer. I'm betting on it.

Forced myself to NewsBlur, deleting all my feeds in Google Reader. I mostly use the iOS app. While not as good as Reeder, its not bad.

I'm on Feedly for now, but looking forward to the Digg release.

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