What RSS reader do you use?

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by alex_c • 19 years ago

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I've been using Live Bookmarks in Firefox, but it gets unwieldy past a number of feeds. Besides, it can be distracting to have it at the top of my browser window.

What do you guys use?

bootload• 19 years ago

" ... What do you guys use? ..."

Fox as well.

"... but it gets unwieldy past a number of feeds. Besides, it can be distracting to have it at the top of my browser window. ..."

Are there any 'webapps' that personalise your feeds (url, return number), summarise (title, description, link) them and give you a page to view? (update: maybe http://www.bloglines.com ?)

seiji• 19 years ago

http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ or http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

entelarust• 19 years ago

NetNewsWire

sylvaincarle• 19 years ago

Same here, with subscriptions (feeds) sorted in folders (for topics) and by Attention, a great way for feeds you end up reading/clicking a lot to bubble to the top of your reading list.

juanpablo• 19 years ago

Liferea (Linux desktop app)

lucumo• 19 years ago

I use that too. Did you have to use some hack to use it as well?

I found that there are errors when I specify the feed directly, while it works perfectly when I use some wget hackery in the command-field.

AdamG• 19 years ago

I use it on Debian sid, no problems. It tells me it's version 1.0.27.

nickb• 19 years ago

Vienna on a Mac. It's superb (and free too)! http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

altano• 19 years ago

I'm always surprised by how few people recommend Vienna. If you're on the Mac and you're a power user, there just isn't another RSS reader that gets the shortcut keys right. It even has slight variations on how some of the navigation works, so you can pick what you like most. I use space to go through my feeds, occasionally hitting shift-space to go backwards to something I skipped over. For RSS feeds of sites like news.yc, I can glance over all the articles and hit s to mark the whole folder as read. ⌘-z undos your last action. I've got 93 feeds, which I guess isn't a whole lot compared to some nuts, but it works great for me.

The only thing it doesn't have is a way to sync between computers, but I don't need that.

joshwa• 19 years ago

Google Reader, with this userstyle:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/google-reader-theme-11

sgraham• 19 years ago

Feedreader on PC, only because some of my feeds require passwords, and online ones don't seem to support that too well. Used to be bloglines before that requirement.

ranparas• 19 years ago

Used to use Firefox livemarks, changed to Google reader and liking it a lot.

dawie• 19 years ago

I use the iGoogle pages as a feedreader

walesmd• 19 years ago

Google Reader

epi0Bauqu• 19 years ago

Google Reader. I use the Next bookmarklet.

bct• 19 years ago

Planet Venus. http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/

(dear pg, please give us some kind of real markup (or at least make it obvious what we can use). thank you, bct.)

alec• 19 years ago

rss2email - get RSS articles by email. Put it in your crontab and let it get messages for you. Avoid annoying ads and stupid layouts by reading it in a text mail client. It's great.

derek• 19 years ago

Google Reader changed the way I think about RSS. It's superb.

hhm2• 19 years ago

I use Google Reader too...

But why does this Google product not feature search??! I really need it in the reader, it makes no sense with no search...

gcheong2• 19 years ago

I wondered the same thing, but now I see a search bar. Was I blind all along or did this just get put there recently?

myoung8• 19 years ago

Vienna for Mac.

redrory• 19 years ago

iGoogle

nreece• 19 years ago

Google Reader and http://www.feedity.com (eating our own dog food) for non-RSS pages

tipjoy• 19 years ago

Google-reader. I used to use Sage, the firefox plugin.

comatose_kid• 19 years ago

Netnewswire (lite) until I realized that RSS was an even greater timesuck than this site. I still have it on my dock, but haven't been brave enough to start it up in a few months (the idea of seeing 4359683^34 unread articles when I boot it isn't a big motivator either).

stevedekorte• 19 years ago

Vienna for OSX

inklesspen• 19 years ago

I use Vienna. I tried using Google Reader, but it's crap. It can't handle HTTP-authenticated feeds, and you can't delete feeds en masse.

Tichy• 19 years ago

Sage

florianb• 19 years ago

Google Reader but I hate it. Ok it's better than most RSS Readers but still ... the user interface for RSS Readers is just broken http://id-o.de/2007/09/08/why-does-every-rss-application-suc...

david• 19 years ago

Thank you! Now I know I'm not the only person who hates RSS readers :)

wlievens• 19 years ago

Google Reader!

christefano• 19 years ago

I'm building a Bloglines clone in Drupal.

dpapathanasiou• 19 years ago

SeekSift.com (disclaimer: this is my current project) which is more than just a feed reader, since it provides filtering and (coming soon) personalized recommendations.

vuknje• 19 years ago

Netvibes

vincentliu• 19 years ago

Liferea

jpincheira• 19 years ago

I use NewsFire. It's pretty good and fast. It lacks of some funtionality when creating smart feeds (yep, it's got smart feeds), anyway I luv it. :)

etheriau• 19 years ago

The new bloglines beta.

What RSS reader do you use?

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