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Leo is really great to let you focus on topics you care about without the overwhelm. You might also try Web Alerts https://blog.feedly.com/how-to-use-leo-web-alerts-to-track-exactly-wha…

I still use RSS. I use Feedly to curate various RSS feeds and many website still have them, or at least the tech focussed ones. I used to be subscribed to more but some RSS feeds have such high traffic it's difficult to follow them, such as the BBC news feed. Feedly has a nice new feature [0] that makes an RSS feed out of a standard website, so that might be worth considering if you have some news sources that don't publish a RSS feed. Unfortunately this wouldn't work with anything that requires authentication like private Twitter feeds for example. [0] https://blog.feedly.com/easily-follow-websites-that-dont-have-rss-feed…

Might be worth checking out https://blog.feedly.com/leo/, I personally haven't used this feature yet, but seems to match what you're explained.

Feedly is one of my favorite examples of "small company in the right place at the right time." They had an RSS reader website that was, in most respects, exactly like Google Reader. They also supported easily importing Google Reader subscriptions. The day Google Reader announced it was going away, me and everyone else found Feedly and said "hey, this is basically the same thing and I can switch easily" and bam, they grew like crazy. Literally a half million users showed up on Feedly in 2 days. http://blog.feedly.com/priorities-keeping-the-site-up-and-adding-new-f…

Yep, from their blog. "2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can." http://blog.feedly.com/2014/06/11/denial-of-service-attack/?utm_conten…

A web-based Feedly is their top request: http://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/filters/top Please pile on additional votes to keep the pressure up. For what it's worth, they claim they are not monitoring your browsing: http://blog.feedly.com/2008/06/18/feedly-and-privacy/ But you're right, still a good idea to push for the web version regardless.

I like how a company that is actually competing in this space, with an existing, operating product, has posted a blog article[1] essentially asking for their new, fresh from Google Reader, users to help prioritizing the missing features and this hacker says just build your own, as if it's a couple of hours or something. Instead of writing this, he should have made a Google Reader clone and got rich this weekend. [1] http://blog.feedly.com/

feedly is nice - they promise seamless integration with GReader http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ The Androind App is a slightly over the top, but the desktop version is great.

"RSS industry"?! I thought the whole point of RSS is that it's decentralized. Feeds don't have to come from a single source and no one client is needed to view them. One could argue that the demise of Reader is the best thing to happen to RSS in along time as this supposedly decentralized and decentralizing standard became too reliant on one vendor. Is it really Google's fault that RSS was overshadowed by the emergence of social networks to the point that it doesn't make economic sense for them to keep maintaining it?! I don't’ think so. Neither is it a commentary on standards, it’s merely a company that is acting in its own perceived interests, something companies are wont to do. As for the “Industry” part, last I checked those who are actually building a Reader replacement are delighted with opportunity: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/23/an-awesome-skin-list-view-with-full-… http://blog.newsblur.com/post/45632737156/three-months-to-scale-newsbl… http://blog.digg.com/post/45355701332/were-building-a-reader When a writer this associated with Microsoft starts framing this situation as yet another flimsy accusation of anti-competitive behaviour, I tend to be skeptic.

There are services that can do that. https://www.pipes.digital/ is mine and filtering feeds is probably its main use case. There is also https://siftrss.com/ and I know that some RSS reader have similar functionality, like https://blog.feedly.com/leo-and-mute-filters/.

I am currently using Feedly with their recent "Leo" feature and it is really interesting how well it works. It requires some setup and imho is a bit expensive (Pro+ plan required) but this announcement should give a good overview of its capabilities: https://blog.feedly.com/leo/ Innovation in the RSS space is still happening and therefore I wouldn't call it 'dead'.

Probably something like this: https://blog.feedly.com/sort-by-popularity/

Feedly does OPML import/export now. It worked for me the other day. I'm just a (non-paying) customer. https://blog.feedly.com/opml/

The original posting on their blog: http://blog.feedly.com/2014/06/11/denial-of-service-attack/ > We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement. Last.fm is also experiencing "network difficulties" for a few days now, I'm curious if they are also on the same group. [0] http://status.last.fm/

Well, the good news for jwz is that these all seem pretty fixable. It's come a long way since the version I first saw after the Reader announcement. It took me a long time to warm up to Google Reader, and for it to have enough features for me. I was a Bloglines user for quite some time. Change is hard. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/06/21/summary-of-the-last-100-days/

jwz is just a bit behind because he's on iOS. As of this writing, only one iOS app (Newsify) is ready while two Android apps (Press and gReader) and a widget (Pure News) are. See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/06/19/feedly-cloud/ This will presumably be sorted out soon. Perhaps the combination of Feedly's late deployment and Apple's approval process have complicated things for some developers. I did notice that both Press and gReader had to bugfix their initial Feedly support. I can certainly imagine an iOS developer having a harder time dealing with a late-breaking issue like that.

Actually, Feedly said that they would make apps for both Windows and Windows Phone: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/06/04/feedly-is-listening-the-roadmap-you-…

Feedly will switch to their own platform once Gooogle Reader is closing. You can find more information here http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-users-migrati… (linked from the post) Tip #1: "A more condensed view"

Feedly posted this to their blog today: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly Google Reader Posted on March 14, 2013 by @feedly Google announced today that they will be shutting down Google Reader. This is something we have been expecting from some time: We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandie back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered.

Feedly has a very familiar view for Reader users: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-users-migrati… I've been using that view since the Reader announcement prompted me to give Feedly a second look. Works perfectly.

I have been using Feedly and they already have a back end system ready to migrate Google Reader: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

bastards. they never seem to realize how much they damage our trust with these actions. it effects all of their future products. I don't trust them anymore. anyway feedly has a replacement coming soon: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ > We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless. > If you are a Google Reader, give feedly a try before July 1st, and you will be able to migrate seamlesly

Feedly is doing just that. They are inviting third-parties who are interested in using their cloned version of the Google Reader API, which is currently called Normandy, to contact them in order to "...keep the Google Reader ecosystem alive." http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

Feedly depends on Google Reader for now, IIRC. edit: They're fixing it! http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

The Fremont datacenter, if I remember correctly, is at Hurricane Electric. They had power issues in 2009 as well. http://blog.feedly.com/2009/11/03/24-minutes-of-unscheduled-downtime-r…

This is exactly what I've been thinking. The conversation about "RSS readers" is really about several different components that are integrated in to a comprehensive product: * A backend for managing subscriptions, read/unread status, tagging, etc * A web UI for reading your feed from anywhere * A native-client (iOS, Android, OS X, etc) for accessing your feed from your devices Users of the Google Reader web UI need the full stack, and there are already alternatives, but there are many native-client users who don't need the full stack. They only need the backend. If someone were to roll a Google Reader API compatible feed subscription and sync service, I think they could recoup their investment pretty easily. UPDATE: It looks like Feedly has "Normandy" waiting in the wings, but I'm not sure how access and fees will shake out for third-party developers. I'd really like to stick to my existing native-client (Reeder), so here's hoping that they make it reasonable and everyone gets on-board. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/