How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?

Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by hpaavola on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:22AM (#5571119)

Sorry for stealing this topic a bit, but could someone suggest a RSS reader which works decently on mobile browsers?

Google Reader on mobile is really good; a heading, site name and first line from the article. I've tried NewsBlur, but it wants you to use an app, and The Old Reader, but it lists all your feeds first and the aggregated list takes way too much space.

EDIT: I'd rather avoid free ones, unless I can host it myself. Don't want to look for a new reader again next year.

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by callahad on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:54AM (#5571299)

I'm not sure how receptive the maintainer would be, but NewsBlur is open source. Everyone would win if someone stepped up and put together a pull request for a nice workflow designed for the mobile web.

I'd gladly chip in to kickstart that.

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by sebsauvage on Friday April 19, 2013 @03:42AM (#5575407)

Did you try Kriss Feed ? Opensource, single php file, fast, no database needed, works great on mobiles, keyboard shortcuts, OPML import/export...

https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed

Screenshots: http://sebsauvage.net/rhaa/images/201303/rha_20130317_kriss_... http://sebsauvage.net/rhaa/images/201303/rha_20130317_kriss_...

I love it.

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by TylerE on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:53PM (#5572019)

Why are you so opposed to an app? This seems like the absolute IDEAL use case for an app - the only thing going over the wire is the content, not formatting, a bunch of JS, etc.

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by pbreit on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:37PM (#5572238)

IMO, an app makes no sense at all. Sending just the data over the wire is not limited to apps. And as has been pointed out, you frequently end up going to a web page so why not start out in the browser (app-encapsulated browsers usually stink).

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by devindotcom on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:59PM (#5572055)

When the content must frequently be viewed in a browser, it makes sense for the reader to be in the browser as well. An app seems far from ideal when it's just a moving window to web-based content.

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by ricardobeat on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:56PM (#5574475)

We are building a (non-free) RSS reader called Creek, you should sign up for the beta: http://creek.io

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by apathetic on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:25AM (#5571140)

Have you tried feedly?

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Re:How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? by hpaavola on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:32AM (#5571184)

I have the impression that it requires an app, even desktop browsers need special add-ons.

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