But it's simple, it works, and (with a tiny bit of CSS and Javascript tweakery in its templates) it presents things in exactly the way I want them, which no other RSS-reading tool I've seen does. (One page with everything inline, rather than a list of feeds that I have to select one by one: I want my feed aggregator to actually aggregate my feeds. This enables the simplest possible reading process[1]: start at the top and read or skim until reaching something you've seen already, then stop. The only nontrivial change I've made is adding little toggles to collapse and expand whole feeds or individual entries.)
[1] I should in good conscience admit that this breaks down in the presence of feeds whose timestamps are b0rked, which are unfortunately not that rare. This doesn't in practice require a big deviation from the simple process in the previous paragraph.
And I like having it live on my local server, not in the cloud. What feeds I choose to read are no business of, say, Google's, and the whole cloud thing is overrated. Get off my lawn!
Goread has the advantage of also being open-source, in Go, so you can install your own on Google App Engine. https://github.com/mjibson/goread
Personally, I use Thunderbird and newsbeuter since I've used them for such a long time and old habits die hard. When Google Reader was relatively new, I tried switching, but it never stuck.
http://quickhist.onloop.net/AOL%20reader=4,Blogtrottr=1,Bras...
I have implemented a Google-Reader like appearence (navigation in the left, list of posts in the right) but have added some UI that was missing to me in GR (tags and subscription are not in the same place, hierarchical tags, not just one star but five to a better evaluation, a right panel that appears to show the post,...).
My purpose wasn't only to follow posts but to organize them so that I can't find them quickly and logicaly later when needed. Several things could be improved but the critical path and emergency to import my GR data before the 1st july are passed and worked fine.
Now I just know that if something very important needs to be improved I can work on it as I want :-)
P.S. I'm also a happy BazQux user.
One major drawback: They still have no native mobile apps and a pretty poor mobile web offering.
The one potential downside is the need to pay a subscription fee after 30 days, but given my heavy dependency on RSS, and what happened to the free Google Reader, $10-$30 a year is a trivial and well-deserved expense.
Very fast, has search, is consistently up, keeps the familiar UI and has no problem with my 1,000 item/day habit.
Worth the small expense.
I just started using it, but so far it's been a really wonderful switch.
But goread tempts me, and I particularly like how the look and keyboard shortcuts are very no-nonsense and Reader-y.
Edit: http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=15843...
I'd love to have a Windows desktop app for it too - if only FeedDemon hadn't been killed off.
We wanted to filter out the noise from our feeds, so this reader gives you only a selection of your news.
Now that i learned how that stuff works under the hood (my main reason to roll my own client), i am planning to build everything in a sane manner an then release it.
Code is on https://github.com/mjibson/goread
Looks just like the old google reader and works really well! ;)
Hope it works well for you!
What do you find slow?
FWIW, I have about 400 feeds and about 1000 articles a day, so I am using it fairly hard.
Put it on the list - it's got 4 votes already