O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:53AM (#11571817)

Sorry, I don't agree: heavy Google Reader user and now a NewsBlur one. While I appreciate the NewsBlur existence it is very very very slow while Google Reader was extremely fast. I don't know if NewsBlur only retrieves my feeds when I start a request or if it constantly retrieves them on the backend.

Disclosure: I have 2350 feeds in NewsBlur.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by fourneau on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:00AM (#11571890)

Is that... normal? 2350 feeds seems like an astronomical amount of news feeds. Can I ask how much of that do you read?

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:01PM (#11573581)

I think this is a good discussion to have. One thing is to be subscribed to thousands of feeds from major media sites where you receive a huge amount of articles every day and another to be subscribed to specific blogs with sporadic articles. I have more of the later.

Only from VCs I have more than 200.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by user_666 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:34PM (#11573302)

I have around 1500. Most are not active, though.

And I wouldn't take the claim seriously that Google Reader was fast with that many feeds; I found that GR struggled with that feeds: http://the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/01/i-broke-google-read...

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by disposition2 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:16AM (#11572030)

Agreed, very curious how much of that actually gets even glanced over.

I thought I was information overload with ~150 sites. I hope OP uses the 'focus' features so they can get a modicum of information from those 2350 feeds.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:31PM (#11574400)

> I thought I was information overload with ~150 sites.

It mainly depends of the feed volume, not how many feeds are you subscribed to. I cherry picked a lot of personal blogs that are not updated often.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by disposition2 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:59PM (#11574594)

That was my perception, a lot of personal blogs, thank you for clarifying.

Somewhat unrelated, but it would be neat if there was some kind of lost and found for RSS as I have sites from the early 00s that I followed which are no longer updated but I imagine the author just changed their site, etc.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by conesus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:28PM (#11575812)

NewsBlur has an organizer that provides this exact info. Just sort of last update (or even stories per month) and mass delete. It's somewhat new but it makes a world of a difference. The organizer is on web and just launched on iOS. See http://blog.newsblur.com.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:24PM (#11575777)

Yes, I think this is one of the issues related to Internet archeology. Not equal but similar to the recovery of Usenet discussions.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by platz on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:41AM (#11572793)

But is your intention really to read every post by every site you're subscribed to? Someone subscribed to over 1000 sites isn't trying to avoid missed posts - they're just dipping into the stream of sites they're interested in at any given moment.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by disposition2 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:08PM (#11573665)

Read every post, no. But at least get a general idea of the posts for the sites I subscribe to. There are a couple of sites that I let over lapse, HN is a good example, but for the most part, I atleast read the headlines / tags of posts for sites.

One nice feature of newsblur, which I don't use often and not sure if it is available in other readers, but the intelligence trainer would probably help in instances where you have a lot of sites and don't necessarily bother reviewing all posts.

Maybe I just use RSS readers differently. But if I were just going to periodically review what a site has, I would probably go to the site periodically rather than clutter up my list of feeds.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by aw3c2 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:09PM (#11575173)

I am in the same boat and I simply quickly go through the 50-100 posts of the sites per day. I actually open maybe 10% in the browser. Following small sites and blogs about your interests gives you the best quality of the web in my opinion.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:48PM (#11575488)

You can add a lot of low-volume sites without having them pile up too much, also I break out my feeds in groups and that makes them a lot easier to go through.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by pavel_lishin on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:25AM (#11572105)

It's possible that many of those could be discarded without being read. As an example, I'm subscribed to the Best Of Metafilter RSS feed, but if I'm on vacation for a week and come back to over a hundred posts, I just mark 'em all as read.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by phonon on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:53AM (#11572916)

Maybe try bazqux. Super fast, written in haskell https://bazqux.com/faq

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:46PM (#11575475)

I have about 1100 feeds and have found that newsblur is pretty good as long as I'm not (a) on safari and (b) leaving the tab open for a long time. (that is, it's fine on chrome, and it's fine on safari if I close the tab after a while).

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:03AM (#11571927)

Downvotes to this are very suspicious since it is a fact that goes in the opposite direction of other comments in the thread.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by inanutshellus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:48AM (#11572866)

I suspect your disclosure (2300 feeds!) overly negated what would have been valid criticism of the tool...

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by wslh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:46PM (#11573435)

No, how many e-mails do you have in GMail? Had this downvotes asked how do I use these feeds?

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