O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by conesus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:53AM (#11572367)

Thank you for posting about NewsBlur. I'd like to remind everybody that one of its most important features is that it is entirely open source

http://github.com/samuelclay

This means that if I were to ever invoke the bus factor you would still be able to use the same reader you use today. It negates the Google Reader problem and gives you confidence that I'm not selling your data or doing anything nefarious.

Plus it means you can contribute your own pet feature. About sixty people have done that so far, for web, iOS, and android. Open sourcing has paid off in spades and I'm planning to do the same for my next secret project, of which I'm in China for right now.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by abtinf on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:16PM (#11576196)

I had no idea newsblur is open source! I can't believe you don't mention it at all on the newsblur.com landing page!

I've been getting fed up with feedly missing critical features. Knowing that newsblur is a service that I could potentially improve is enough to go through the pain of migrating my feeds to do a solid evaluation.

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by dcposch on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:57PM (#11575553)

> my next secret project

> I am also working on a new hardware device called the Turn Touch Mac Remote. It controls custom built apps on your Mac.

lol. good luck!

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Re:O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader by conesus on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:24PM (#11575781)

I like to leave little hints for those who try. But you also don't know what it looks like yet. That's going to be quite the reveal.

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