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Comment by madeofpalk | Hacker News Reader

If you were a former Google Reader user, you might like Feedbin. I've been with them for the last year or however long and have been fairly happy.

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How does this solve the problem of another DDoS against some other RSS reader? Are you going to suggest that if Feedbin gets attacked next, to hop to the next product?

Or he saw the other guy is open to trying different RSS readers and simply made a recommendation.

I'm moving TO Feedly since they've already had their attack. Next round would be the some other provider.

Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case, they're being DDoS'd again today (new attack).

Yeah, it doesn't really seem like "switch to the feed provider who isn't getting DDoS'ed" is a solution.

I've been using Digg Reader for a while and I'm actually kind of shocked that most people haven't moved to that. It has its bugs (sometimes showing incorrect numbers, the mobile app locks up sometimes), but it's honestly the best alternative that I've found so far.

Maybe it has to do with its free-ness, as people worry about them shutting doors like Google Reader, but if you're looking for a free solution then I'd definitely recommend it.

I was a very happy Digg Reader user for a while, but the bugs just kept getting worse and worse, and I jumped ship.

Now I'm on BazQux, which works very, very well and very, very quickly, but has no mobile version and a design straight out of 1996.

And it's written in Haskell. Which makes me want to take a look at Haskell again :)

I thought they used Ur/Web.

Ur/Web is used mostly for generating JavaScript and part of web server. Most backend is written in Haskell.

You could look more here https://github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb

I've been super happy with Digg Reader. The few bugs I've seen are not that big of a deal. I've never seen anything that an actual page reload didn't solve. I've not tried the mobile app though.

The development has been glacial bordering on non-existent since launch on digg reader. The betaworks team that created it was able to do so in a matter of weeks– after re-writing and launching the new digg on a similar timeframe – which makes me think the current lack of progress is because they've moved on to other things (Instapaper, for one).

It's too bad, digg reader had a lot of promise.

If more users use Feedbin, then it will also be DDoSed and blackmailed. I think self hosting is the only solution here.

I'll second support for Feedbin. The interface is clean and uncomplicated, it's so cheap that it really isn't worth my time to self-host, and it works with my RSS apps of choice.

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