Replacing Google Reader (The H) [LWN.net]

Replacing Google Reader (The H)

Posted Apr 4, 2013 15:02 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: Replacing Google Reader (The H) by mm7323
Parent article: Replacing Google Reader (The H)

Have you not realized that Google Reader is shutting down? Everyone who uses it knows that Google Reader is good for RSS, and that's why this article is looking for alternatives by July 1.

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Replacing Google Reader (The H)

Posted Apr 4, 2013 19:29 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]

It seems like Google Currents is only available as a phone or tablet app, so it's not much a replacement for the Google Reader web interface.

Replacing Google Reader (The H)

Posted Apr 6, 2013 12:44 UTC (Sat) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link]

> It seems like Google Currents is only available as a phone or tablet app, so it's not much a replacement for the Google Reader web interface

Yes, sadly. In my opinion, any replacement for Google Reader has, as a minimum, the following properties:

- A desktop application. Web-based with good keyboard bindings would be preferable.
- A smartphone app, and a tablet app.
- A stateful synchronizable backing store.
- A synchronization API. Extra bonus if it's open, and allows for 3rd party applications to use it.

I haven't been diving into the alternatives yet, and am taking a bit of 'wait and see' approach. But from the chatter on the net, it seems that Feedly is currently one of the top contenders. People's opinions of it vary somewhat though. Has anyone tried it out, particularly against the above mentioned list?

Replacing Google Reader (The H)

Posted Apr 6, 2013 15:55 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I've been using Feedly for the last couple of weeks now. Their software works, it syncs with the Reader API on the backed so all the front ends are in sync, including Google Reader. The plan seems to be to create their own Reader API compatible backend and move over to it before summer.

Their apps work OK but really seem to prefer a magazine style layout over the simple list layout and don't at the moment seem to have space keyed to advancing to the next article or back/forward UI widgets in list view, maybe there are keybindings but I haven't found them yet.