Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/22
My Google Reader alternatives shortlist comes down to these 3
Feedly:
- PRO: imports GR including which posts you already read.
- PRO: GR imported posts contains all history (even from blog feeds that are now defunct)
- CON: slows down browser considerably
- CON: UI has too much whitespace
- CON: UI is slow (browsing with j/k takes ages)
CommaFeed & InoReader & The Old Reader
- PRO: uses as much screen estate as possible
- PRO: very fast UI
- CON: GR import misses the read/unread markers
- CON: GR import incomplete (so now defunct feeds do not appear)
One of the reasons I want to have the defunct feeds, is that it contains the old blog of a friend that passed away.
–jeroen
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Leonardo Herrera said
I’m using The Old Reader. I read that Feedly has client apps? Does it have one for Windows?
jpluimers said
I prefer web stuff for this so I haven’t checked out any apps.
Schalk Versteeg said
Hi Jeroen,
I have created a Tampermonkey script to remove a lot of the UI whitespace in the browser called [Feedly: Compactor]
Try It, I haven’t tested it yet with GreaseMonkey on Firefox though.
Schalk
jpluimers said
Now if you had written a [Feedly:SpeedUp] script (;
Will try and find it. Thanks!
–jeroen
jpluimers said
Wow: you should rename your script into [Feedly:SpeedUp]
Brilliant!
–jeroen
Schalk Versteeg said
Thank you, my Pleasure.
Coming to think of it, I should’ve called it [Feedly: Ultra Compact].
As for the speed up, I don’t know if I can take the credit for that as I know the people at feedly have not only bought a whole lot of servers, but are also working on continuously improving the speed.
(But I will test it.)
If you do like an ultra dark theme you should try the [Feedly: Darker Theme].
jpluimers said
I like white backgrounds.
BTW: if you can improve the “keep whole post in focus”, please do.
For instance scrolling with j/k through http://www.feedly.com/home#subscription/feed/http://www.nu.nl/feeds/rss/algemeen.rss cuts of the bottom part of posts when about 10-12 entries into the feed. This only sometimes happens when you have unread entries. When all of them are read, it does not happen.
Schalk Versteeg said
My feedly is now also a lot more responsive, they must’ve brought at least some there new servers online, or even made backend speed improvements. It is not my script.
Fred Ahrens said
So far for me it’s Feedly. The clients for iOS and Android are excellent. Another CON for Feedly is the plugin requirement for the browser. I really hope they will offer soon normal browser access to my feeds.
And there is currently no way to access Feedly from a Windows Phone.