News!! Choosing A Replacement For Google Reader

This post tells the story of my choosing a replacement for Google reader.

Every thus often, I produce a post hither on Blogger-HAT which is a lilliputian "different".

Today, I'm starting the quest to select a replacement for Google Reader (yes, the turn-off was announced dorsum inwards March, but there's no betoken inwards starting these things likewise shortly - I hold off that a few options create got improved considerably since then.

One means that this post is unlike is that I'm going to striking break rattling soon, amongst the post but started non but finished.    So if you're a subscriber together with desire to consider what I halt upward with, you lot mightiness similar to sign upward on Facebook or somewhere, thus you lot larn a notification when I've finished.

So let's larn started:

First stop:  google.com   [google reader replacement]
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cool 66-million results.   Yeah, I'll zippo through those inwards no time.

Scanning downwards the list, I don't recognise or thus of the transcend placegetters:

The origin iii are from Google News.   No, don't desire to banking concern jibe them - I desire comparative reviews, no press-releases.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 post from "howtogeek" - nah, I don't desire to travel a geek.

One from "workflowing.net" - sounds similar a sponsored listing, fifty-fifty though it's not.  But the summary does say "Note: This post is a running listing together with volition proceed to travel updated amongst novel options and " - let's create got a look.   They create got 5 options:
Feedly
Feedbin
Feed Wrangler
Fever

Feedly is the exclusively gratis one.   They're making the park mutterings almost "look what happened to the final gratis option" - but I think Picnik:   it wasn't free, but it withal got nigh down.    So I'm non hung upward almost gratis = no control.

Not plenty to compare yet, ask to banking concern jibe or thus other listing or two.

six June update:   

Saw this comment on or thus other site.

Looked atThe Old Reader - Clicked on the sign-in amongst Google together with consider that The Old Reader is requesting permission to: View together with care your Google Contacts - That's a NO
Looked at Feedly - Clicked on the Get Feedly for Chrome together with it states it tin Access your information on all websites together with Access your tabs & browsing action - That's a NO

I'm non thus fussed almost whether something accesses my tabs together with browsing action - but I don't desire a Chrome app:   I ask something that plant inwards whatever browser I tumble out to use, travel it IE inwards the component subdivision or Firefox or Chrome at home.

12 June:

I institute a reference to Rolio somewhere.    Signed upward - fifty-fifty though the concealment looked rather bare together with pale ( = trendy, but harder to read).   Then I subscribed to 1 feed, together with got an e-mail confirming that I'd subscribed.   Ahh ... no, that's going to larn wayyy likewise painful.

sixteen June:

I'm starting to larn concerned almost the issue of de-recommendations I'm seeing.   There seem to travel lots of reasons non to purpose tools, together with no compelling replacement.

So I decided to endeavor The Old Reader.

The flake almost it wanting to access your Google Contacts may travel truthful - but it's non necessary.    I decided to hold the 2 services separate, together with signed upward amongst a totally novel account, no Google Contacts requests involved.

It looked a flake strange to start with, but 1 time I realized that it doesn't truly travel amongst IE8, together with switched to Chrome, it worked ok.   Personally I mean value the blueprint is a lilliputian ugly - but the basics of Google Reader are there.  

Reading their blog, it's withal a rattling immature production - iii developers, straight off getting aid from the wider community, but withal working out a sustainable model for their product.    So it could start charging subscriptions (I'm non keen) or showing ads (doesn't worry me, provided they're non likewise intrusive) or larn bought of yesteryear a large histrion (I'm guessing that won't travel Google :-)  ), together with I mightiness travel searching again.   But it's worth the adventure for a piece I think.

25 July Update

I was quite happy - until the final few days when TheOldReader has been unavailable due to a hardware upgrade that went wrong.   It's dorsum now, on Fri morning time - but it's got me wondering when it mightiness become downwards next.

So I went looking for other web-browser based feed readers - together with was disappointed inwards how few at that spot seem to be.    One pick I've tried is the Digg reader.  For this, I had to sign inwards amongst my Google delineate of piece of work concern human relationship - though discovered upon afterward logins that it's possible to log inwards amongst either Facebook or Twitter, too.  It won't travel amongst IE8, but is ok on Chrome.   It imported my Google Reader subscriptions ok.   The top-level interface is fine - although the listing of feeds doesn't exhibit which ones create got novel items inwards them.   The display of private items inwards feeds is a lilliputian ugly, though.

So at this stage, I'm non certain which pick I'll stick with.

29 July

It looks similar the determination is beingness made for me:   I but logged inwards to The Old Reader, together with say the next banner message at the transcend of the screen:

We create got disabled user registration at The Old Reader, together with nosotros mightiness travel making the website private. If nosotros do, unfortunately your delineate of piece of work concern human relationship volition non travel transferred to the private site, thus you lot mightiness desire to export your subscriptions every bit OPML together with start looking for an alternative solution. More details are inwards available inwards our blog: http://blog.theoldreader.com

Having read their blog-post:   the conception is to brand the site private inwards 2 weeks time, unless individual else steps inwards amongst a means to larn inwards work.

Not a adept calendar week for me - a lot on at the twenty-four hr catamenia job.   So I won't travel moving anywhere rapidly ... but am definitely looking for alternative web-delivered, browser-agnostic RSS-reader options.

Criteria for choosing:

The classic approach to choosing software is to determine your requirements, thus evaluate options against how good they consider them.    But I've institute it difficult to distil my requirements.

Bottom delineate - it must permit import together with permit me read the RSS feeds I create got now, together with permit me add together novel ones.

Pretty important:

Not a stream:  I desire to grab upward amongst everything inwards each feed every thus oft - non but a current of what's recent.

Must read RSS feeds - non tweets or other stuff.

Nice to have:

Browser independent

Used my Google delineate of piece of work concern human relationship (maybe)

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