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Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by rb808 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:31PM (#16588031)
Its becoming a habit. Any good alternatives?
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by nathcd on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:11PM (#16588343)
If you're cool with paid[0] or self-hosted[1], I've heard Newsblur is nice.

[0] https://newsblur.com/

[1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by WorldMaker on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:26PM (#16588437)
NewsBlur is nice. (I'm a very happy paid user.) It's social features are close to what was lost when Google shutdown their Reader. (The biggest thing lacking is how big the community was in GReader's heyday, but that was a rare lightning in a bottle and not NewsBlur's fault.)

As a paid customer I know that I'm a customer of NewsBlur, they expect to keep my business, and Samuel Clay has been very good over the years about listening to customer and community feedback.

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by Nrbelex on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:24PM (#16588426)
Newsblur is indeed great. It is under active development, the developer is responsive to bug reports, the mobile apps are good (if not gorgeous), and there are some innovative features, such as the ability to train Newsblur to sort certain posts into a "focus" list.

Plus I consider the fact that it operates using a freemium model a great benefit as there are no ads, it is less likely to close shop out of the blue, and it is less likely to be selling user data to support itself.

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by teilo on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:55PM (#16588666)
Another +1 for Newsblur. I have been a paid user ever since Google Reader shut down. Its design goal was to fill just that gap, so for those who loved the workflow of Reader, Newsblur was the obvious choice. Of course, it has far exceeded Reader's feature set since then. It has had some performance issues in the past, but the developer was quick to respond to them.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by romdev on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:38PM (#16589620)
+1 vote for Newsblur. I was using Google Reader start to finish and also tried several others before settling on Newsblur. It's perfect in almost every way, but has a curious/arbitrary number of stories preserved per feed, sometimes 200, sometimes 500. I haven't figured out if it's an option, or an algorithm.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by eisa01 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:06PM (#16588304)
I’ve been using Inoreader for the past months, switching from NetNewsWire. It’s a web app, so now I have access outside of my Mac as well

Best part is that you can create a random email address to sign up to e.g., email notifications from organizations that don’t have RSS. This requires their 50 USD plan, but I’m just glad to support them!

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by stunthamsterio on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:09PM (#16588329)
I quite like feedbin.com. Simple, straightforward and reasonably priced.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by archagon on Thursday March 15, 2018 @03:41AM (#16591038)
Extremely happy with Feedbin ever since Reader shut down. And it keeps getting better.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by aag on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:30PM (#16588465)
I'm very happy with Blogtrottr, which turns feeds into email. It has flexible delivery options, e.g. digests, plain text vs. HTML, and sort order. Best of all, receiving posts via email means I don't have to check yet another app.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by empyrical on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:34PM (#16588062)
I've been using Feedly since Google Reader died. Curious if there are any other good ones - I miss GReader's ability to have subcategories for example, and am curious if there's a service that supports this
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by Phlogistique on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:11PM (#16588344)
I use Newsblur which fits the bill. It has subcategories and stuff.

Other people use The old reader which looks and feels like the old Google Reader.

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by greglindahl on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:38PM (#16588982)
I'm a very happy paying customer of Newsblur, it does what I want to do: read 100% of a bunch of feeds, using any device that I own.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by empyrical on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:44PM (#16588585)
That looks pretty good!

Does anyone know if there are any Android apps that interface with Newsblur like BeyondPod can with Feedly?

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by romdev on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:44PM (#16589650)
I'm assuming you mean podcasting apps. I would also use one if it exists. There's no way I'm switching from Newsblur, but curious: does Feedly store your last listened position, so you can switch from phone to desktop like you can with Audible?
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by cpeterso on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:57PM (#16588685)
Feedly is nice on desktop web site and mobile app, though it is missing some of the social features of Google Reader and some functionality can be more difficult to find in the UI than it should be.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by dewey on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:10PM (#16588332)
https://miniflux.net if you like Go and hosting it yourself, there's also a hosted version that's paid though.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by acemarke on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:36PM (#16588517)
BazQux Reader: https://bazqux.com

It's just like the old Google Reader, but 1) still alive, and 2) $20/yr subscription.

Absolutely worth it.

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by aqtrans on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:37PM (#16588530)
After trying a few of the others after Google Reader shut down, I settled on https://tt-rss.org/. It has an official Android client and quite a few iOS clients as well.
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by tschellenbach on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:21PM (#16588401)
Winds 2.0 is open source and will be release this April: https://github.com/getstream/winds
Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by fernly on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:16PM (#16588817)
Since the google debacle I've been using RSS Owl on my Macbook pro. It works.

http://www.rssowl.org/

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by jcbrand on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:07PM (#16588306)
I self-host Selfoss (since about 3 years), pretty happy with it.

https://www.selfoss.aditu.de/

Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by y03a on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:05PM (#16588293)
I've been using Newsbeuter but my needs are very minimal.