juliogreff

As a feed reader developer myself, I find your idea for a standardized protocol very interesting. I don't have much experience designing protocols, but I'd love to help if someone is working on something like this. I have some friends who would love to see such a protocol implemented on all these readers we're seeing coming out every day ;)

Shameless plug here, but Lector[1] has a two-column layout (and you can also hide the sidebar if you like) and endless scrolling. It's also surprisingly similar to Yoleo's layout in some points. If you like them, maybe you should check us out too ;)

[1] http://bealector.com

Been using GReader for the last 7 years or so. I guess I'll miss it a little, though it's mostly nostalgia. With so many people launching their own readers (myself included), I'm sure you'll be able to find a good replacement.

I'm the developer of Lector [1]. We're squashing some bugs to our first public release this week, but I can get people accounts if they want to try it first and give us feedback. It's going to be paid though.

We have a focus similar to Digg's reader: our product is simple, fast and aimed at power users. I hope people like it.

[1] http://bealector.com

That's interesting. Do you have any pointers on how to do something like that?

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In my view, it depends if you want the end product or the experience of building your idea. If you're in it just for the experience, sure, go for it anyway. If you want the end product, ask yourself: does the existing solution fit exactly what you need, 100% perfect? Or are there things missing, or the smallest detail that bothers you for some reason? Most of the time it'll be the latter. In that case, build it. It may not make you rich or famous, but you'll have something that you love to use and you're proud of. That's enough for me, at least.

Must be a fun exercise using hjkl on dvorak. I think I would end up remapping the whole normal mode to the same positions of a qwerty keyboard.