Feedly Pro

https://cloud.feedly.com/#pro

by ababab • 13 years ago

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I was wondering how long it would take for them to find a business model.

baq• 13 years ago

selling https access doesn't sound like a good one for me, this should be a basic feature with NSA and who knows who else listening in on everything.

kondro5• 13 years ago

If you want some privacy, you have to pay for it. Is that really that unreasonable?

nwh3• 13 years ago

SSL probably doesn't do squat against the NSA.

samuelfine4• 13 years ago

They aren't selling https, they're selling early access to https, plus search, priority support, and some other stuff.

https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364340330172137472

AndrewDucker• 13 years ago

Fantastic. Making the users the customers is something I heartily approve of. It aligns the interests of the service providers with the interests of the users, and means they have to compete on service, rather than spending their time finding ways to make people click on ads.

middus• 13 years ago

If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone.

Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088)

samweinberg• 13 years ago

Seriously. You shouldn't have to pay to expect a reasonable amount of security as a user.

kondro5• 13 years ago

So, as a user, you have a right to a free product on your terms and conditions?

arrrg3• 13 years ago

Security? Where do you see security issues outside of login data (which is already over HTTPS)?

This seems like a privacy feature (something not necessarily everyone cares about when it comes to their feedreading), not security.

hamburglar2• 13 years ago

For the functionality Feedly provides, plain HTTP is a reasonable amount of security. I also, up until fairly recently, received news via a bundle of paper left on my doorstep. Shocking, I know.

borplk• 13 years ago

Looks like they are just decorating the "Pro" plan with "features".

stephen_mcd3• 13 years ago

Have a look at kouio, it's only accessible over HTTPS: https://kouio.com

stephen_mcd3• 13 years ago

Also worth mentioning, with kouio, paying customers will never be competing with freeloaders for resources :-)

nwh3• 13 years ago

Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it.

Is it really that expensive for them to run? Last time I heard it was a a minuscule amount per request, and peanuts for the certificate itself.

jamespo2• 13 years ago

Of course not, but pro will be funding their infrastructure as a whole

calpaterson• 13 years ago

That depends whether they are using a CDN. CDN's charge a lot more for HTTPS

melling• 13 years ago

Does $5/month sound a lot for a product/service from a real business? How much do you charge for your product/service?

YorickPeterse• 13 years ago

Probably what annoys me most about this is that HTTPS was already there (I've been using it for a good month or two). This would imply that the costs were already spent, the infrastructure was in place and it was working just fine.

thisishugo4• 13 years ago

Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.

kondro5• 13 years ago

Authentication is already SSL.

arrrg3• 13 years ago

Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all.

I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.

thisishugo4• 13 years ago

There are plenty of reasons to prefer secure browsing by default. Perhaps I subscribe to feeds that would be flagged as "suspect" by programs like PRISM[1] and XKeyscore[2], and would like to make the NSA work at least a little bit to find that out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

siddboots• 13 years ago

Personally, think we should encourage an ecosystem where https is a given, rather than feature. I would prefer that companies saw this as part-and-parcel with being a responsible service provider.

FWIW, I'm a big fan of Feedly, and have upgraded to Pro.

cenhyperion2• 13 years ago

Security shouldn't be a premium.

petsos• 13 years ago

Not again with the lifetime accounts...

kondro5• 13 years ago

Only 5,000 lifetime accounts. Tiny in comparison to the 12 million+ users they have.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/19/feedly-launches-sta...

Grue3• 13 years ago

Will they even last 20 months at which point lifetime account becomes advantageous? The Old Reader sure didn't.

JazCE• 13 years ago

Can they fix the whole "keep unread/mark as read" shortcut key debacle first?

pkhamre• 13 years ago

I would rather pay a monthly/yearly fee.

kondro5• 13 years ago

The price is $5/month and $45/year when these 5,000 lifetime accounts run out.

samuelfine4• 13 years ago

Apparently you didn't read the article. Or the first sentence.

"feedly pro will be generally available this fall for $5 per month (or $45 per year)."

exizt88• 13 years ago

You know something's wrong with your RSS reader when it has a support queue, and people are willing to pay for bumping to the front of it.

jacobr• 13 years ago

Are there any products with actual users and no support queue?

DigitalSea• 13 years ago

Google Search? I don't recall the last time I had to send Google an email because their search wasn't working for me. Over the top example, but an example nonetheless.

Schlaefer• 13 years ago

That doesn't mean people are willing to pay for faster support or even need it. Feedly offers a pro account but obviously decided against crippling the free account. I'm very happy about that. If people are willing to pay they get priority support as an additional value. And as bonus: if the support queue is short once it is implemented in the support software/workflow this feature costs feedly nothing.

maaaats• 13 years ago

You're unfair. The other option would be to offer no support for free plans and only have support for those who pays.

uptown• 13 years ago

Since Google Reader went down, I've found I waste less time. I used to use Reeder as my front-end, but they've been slow to update their desktop app. I realize I'm "missing" things I used to keep up to date on, but the net gain is a lot more time I used to spend consuming what I suppose was superfluous content. For me - it's been kind of a nice change.

jamesjporter• 13 years ago

I had the same experience when I stopped using Opera and didn't have the RSS reader anymore. I do miss reading webcomics regularly, but the productivity gain is nice.

kzahel• 13 years ago

Seems ironic to have a "lifetime" pro option, as its predecessor's lifetime was cut short.

Ecio78• 13 years ago

we live until we die, and unfortunately sometimes we die earlier than we want to :)

samuelfine4• 13 years ago

I suppose it's less ironic when you consider that its predecessor's lifetime was cut short, in part, because they didn't charge for their product. ;)

martin-adams• 13 years ago

I would be put off paying $99 for a lifetime account. These should be available up to 5,000, but users should be able to still opt for the $5 or $45 options.

Simple1234• 13 years ago

I'm surprised they don't just stick a banner at the top and call it a day.

mcantrell• 13 years ago

That's great and all, but my RSS Service has SSL by default, no support queue, and is only $2/month or $16/year. Everyone is a user, and everyone is treated the same. No ads, ever.

https://www.bulletin.io

changdizzle• 13 years ago

Honest question: why do people pay for "pro" RSS services? There are enough out there that I don't feel I would ever need to - I was using oldreader until they shut it down to everyone and now use digg reader - is there specific functionality I'm missing out on by not using these premium services? There's always the whole adage of if it's free then you could lose it, but with the amount of readers out there it seems like I could hop to and from services.

smacktoward• 13 years ago

Because it would be nice to not have to constantly hop to and from services as they die from lack of resources?

Because it would be nice to not have to periodically have to re-learn everything as the app you're familiar with dies and you have to switch to an unfamiliar one?

Because good software is worth something?

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