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Comment by scrollaway | Hacker News Reader

Not free, sorry (although cheap), but as far as web-based alternatives go I recommend BazQux (bazqux.com). It's essentially like Google Reader, lets you auth with your Google account, and works with a bunch of RSS apps.

I was happy to pay for a lifetime account. It has a 30 day demo period if you want to check it out before deciding.

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I found BazQux when Google Reader died, and have been thrilled with it ever since. It looks and feels much like GReader did, and it just _works_. I continue to be amazed that it's not more widely mentioned when these sorts of discussions pop up.

BazQux and Pinboard are two simple services that I am extremely happy to pay for, based on their usefulness, reliability, and value.

Oooh, I remember hearing about BazQux. IIRC, it's actually written in some really cool language, I think. I wanna say... Ur/Web + Haskell? They don't publicize it on their site or anything, which I love, since it's actually a real product that happens to be written with it, rather than an "RSS feed reader written in X".

Yes, correct, Ur/Web + Haskell. The author posted it in /r/haskell, IIRC.

Bazqux is also great because it can fetch content from social media - Twitter, Google Plus, some Facebook, etc. Unfortunately, you can't just get your account's entire feed from it, but you can, for example, give it a Twitter page and get that page's tweets.

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