Feedbin.com has been wonderful for me since the demise of google reader, and frankly it's far better. It's not free, but it's very cheap and as far as I'm concerned that's a feature -- means it's less likely to just disappear or shut down one day, and AFAIK all the source code is open source.

the (good) old reader and newsblur are my favorites

https://theoldreader.com/

http://newsblur.com/

"Feedbro" PlugIn in Firefox. For me, the browser is the natural environment for RSS reading. "Sage" did a perfect job for me in the past, but since it is not available for FF 57 yet, I switched to "Feedbro" and never regretted.

Thanks for that, it might just get me back to reading my RSS feed. Using RSSOwl isn't so great if you never open it, so the content just languishes. The browser is pretty much the natural place for RSS readers (thanks, Opera!).

Now if I could only get Feedbro to sync my read items...

It probably depends on the client you use. Personally, I still prefer Thunderbird as I already use its email function (duh) and calendar. RSS in Thunderbird is by no means spectacular but they offer a couple of useful functions like automatically applied filters to delete, move or mark messages.

The downside, when compared to an online service, is that you obviously can only access your feed on your laptop. On the other hand, it's freeing that you don't always have to check your feeds. Also, you don't depend on a service provider to keep its product alive.

As a heavy RSS user, I really like Newsblur

This discussion would be improved with pricing data. Newsblur is free, although I'm one of the 6034 premium paid users.

Newsblur never fails me, kinda impressive how well it works.

https://bazqux.com is my favorite.

$19 a year? Must be a joke.

Yes, perhaps it's too low.

Inoreader

I still cannot see how https://www.inoreader.com/ doesn't get more love. I easily moved to it from Google Reader, and spend my day in the web browser version, and night with the App on my phone.

Miles better than everything else: https://www.inoreader.com/

If you don't mind self-hosting, I really like TinyTinyRSS. It has a decent Android client too.

digg reader works fine for me.

screencap: http://i.imgur.com/3GbYB61.png

link: http://digg.com/reader

I wasn't aware Digg Reader existed, thanks.

Now, will my 12 year old Digg account work?

Hah. Similar experience last year when I tried to sign up for digg reader and it said my email address was already in use O.o

I use https://feedreader.com which looks nice on desktop and mobile.

Feedly is good; I use it in conjunction with Reeder on my desktop and phone for syncing.

newsbeuter is an excellent, feature rich, RSS/Atom reader for the terminal.

This is how I've read HN for ages.

http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html

rss2email: https://github.com/wking/rss2email

I use rss2email with cron to send posts of my family's blog by email to people for whom straight RSS is not convenient.

This is especially nice for my grandmother, who has an iPad. I found no RSS reader there that is easy to use enough, free and ad-free.

I just wanted something I can just give a RSS link to and it fetches this link and shows content. And nothing else. This does not seem to exist.

My grandmother knows how to read and write emails. Blog posts are rendered properly using rss2email in her mailbox. And she knows how to click in the email to go to the blog and comments at times. This is actually even simpler and more optimal than a dedicated RSS App. One unique easy way to get news from the family using the tablet.

And the blog is easier than Facebook (I guess - never used it). There is just our content in the pages and that’s it. No irrelevant stuff around and no notifications.

If you are looking for ways to keep in touch with a group of people in which somebody is not really into computers, this may be one nice solution.

So, thanks to the authors of rss2email.

As a heavy RSS user, I also recommend newsblur.

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