“You still use RSS?”
Yeah. All the time. I subscribe to hundreds of sites and going to each of those individually would be cumbersome. I just wouldn’t do it. But RSS allows me to keep up with them.
Cool tweet belittling me for using it though. I’m sure you have some some way cooler way to keep up with sites you like to read or whatever. Like following people on Twitter who tweet the best articles they read through RSS.
I think this is a bummer. I’m a small niche, but I’d probably pay for a service that was just an API for storing feeds. So RSS apps could integrate with it and I could hop between them at will like I do now.
Good call, Chris. I couldn’t possibly digest the amount of information I currently do without RSS feeds (including this blog and CSS Tricks). And Google Reader has been my – and many others’ – reader of choice for years. I don’t think you’re a minority there.
Hopefully somebody will come up with something at least equally useful/helpful….
Was sad to find out about the impending end of Google Reader too, and wondered if I would be the only one (or indeed, if I was missing any other cooler ways of getting my feeds and see them sync across my computers).
Setting my hopes on RSS Feed Reader for Chrome right now but am curious to see about other/better alternatives.
Glad I switched to Feedly last year. It is a brilliant service.
I too love Feedly, but isn’t it really tied to the reader for the feeds? I currently am using Google reader . . . and am wondering what the best alternative reader would be for me to use???
I feel exactly the same way. I access all of my internet resources, except for maybe 1/2%, via RSS.
I’m trying out Feedly. The UI is very confusing. It’s not clear if you’ve marked something as read, and how to mark as unread or easily move to the next item in your feed. Plus, I access my feeds on multiple devices / systems, and the experience is VERY different on each of them.
I’ll keep checking out other alternatives. I have until July. :)
@Chris, I totally agree with you. I would pay for a service like that.
@Mike, I have had pretty much the same experience with Feedly. I’ve also looked at NewsBlur, but just not really happy with either of those services.
Does anyone have any other suggestions that might be able to compete, at least on some level, with Google Reader?
I use Bloglovin, switched to it after Google powered down the home page service and I wanted to trim my reliance on them. I love the interface (more than Google Reader!), but I don’t use it on a mobile device. Still, it seems quite modern, so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t up to par. Still, I curse Google for turning off their services as they are wont to do.
I should mention a small irritation, which is that the pages display with the bloglovin ribbon above, which is great for browsing, but not so great for grabbing links.