The Verge on the top five RSS Readers for keeping up with news feeds

From Barbara Krasnoff at The Verge. I have covered RSS in the past, as it is how I prefer to get my news, though it has receded since Google gave up on it’s RSS reader after dominating so much that there was really no competition.

Personally I just use Feedly at this point, it works as well as Google every did, and it’s apps are good to. And I got in on the ground floor so I have a lifetime subscription (upgraded to use AI). Even with a subscription though it would be worth it, as it is much more targeted than say Apple News, which currates for you, and I want my news from the sites that I want it from.

Feedly Updates it’s Mobile App

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Feedly has gone a major update to it’s mobile app, it has a new way to discover and search for feeds, and a Must Read section as well, though I was most excited about the new Title Only view, which is supposed to be more like Google Reader, but at least on the iPad it IS NOT! It still looks like the crappy magazine mode that is so damn hard to read because the formatting is different sometimes from line to line and almost always from page to page! I might be OK with FEEDLY if they would just give me a straight list view on the iPad!!!

Of course it also lacks Pinboard integration, which I really want now that I have moved my favorites from Google Reader to Pinboard.

Feedly on how to make Feedly more Google Reader like

I woke up this morning to an e-mail from Feedly on how to make Feedly more Google Reader like. So of course I decided to give it another chance.

And I have to say with the changes, it is a pretty good Reader replacement. Fast and works well. And for now it still syncs with Reeder (until they replace with their own backend when reader goes down). My only complaint so far is that the feed organization is pretty bad. I can’t seem to drag feeds where they were very easily.

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That and the iOS app is set up as the graphical view and you can’t seem to change that. Until Google Reader goes away I will be using REEDER to sync with Google Reader, and trying Feedly on the desktop for now.