What RSS reader do you use?

12 pointsby alex_cvor 19 Jahren40 comments

I've been using Live Bookmarks in Firefox, but it gets unwieldy past a number of feeds. Besides, it can be distracting to have it at the top of my browser window.

What do you guys use?

42 comments

derekvor 19 Jahren

Google Reader changed the way I think about RSS. It's superb.

hhmvor 19 Jahren

I use Google Reader too...

But why does this Google product not feature search??! I really need it in the reader, it makes no sense with no search...

gcheongvor 19 Jahren

I wondered the same thing, but now I see a search bar. Was I blind all along or did this just get put there recently?

gcheongvor 19 Jahren

I guess I was only blind for a week: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-found-it.html

mawvor 19 Jahren

It's new. They rolled out a few changes recently.

hhmvor 19 Jahren

Wow, fantastic news, thank you!

bctvor 19 Jahren

Planet Venus. http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/

(dear pg, please give us some kind of real markup (or at least make it obvious what we can use). thank you, bct.)

florianbvor 19 Jahren

Google Reader but I hate it. Ok it's better than most RSS Readers but still ... the user interface for RSS Readers is just broken http://id-o.de/2007/09/08/why-does-every-rss-application-suc...

davidvor 19 Jahren

Thank you! Now I know I'm not the only person who hates RSS readers :)

bootloadvor 19 Jahren

" ... What do you guys use? ..."

Fox as well.

"... but it gets unwieldy past a number of feeds. Besides, it can be distracting to have it at the top of my browser window. ..."

Are there any 'webapps' that personalise your feeds (url, return number), summarise (title, description, link) them and give you a page to view? (update: maybe http://www.bloglines.com ?)

nickbvor 19 Jahren

Vienna on a Mac. It's superb (and free too)! http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

altanovor 19 Jahren

I'm always surprised by how few people recommend Vienna. If you're on the Mac and you're a power user, there just isn't another RSS reader that gets the shortcut keys right. It even has slight variations on how some of the navigation works, so you can pick what you like most. I use space to go through my feeds, occasionally hitting shift-space to go backwards to something I skipped over. For RSS feeds of sites like news.yc, I can glance over all the articles and hit s to mark the whole folder as read. ⌘-z undos your last action. I've got 93 feeds, which I guess isn't a whole lot compared to some nuts, but it works great for me.

The only thing it doesn't have is a way to sync between computers, but I don't need that.

comatose_kidvor 19 Jahren

Netnewswire (lite) until I realized that RSS was an even greater timesuck than this site. I still have it on my dock, but haven't been brave enough to start it up in a few months (the idea of seeing 4359683^34 unread articles when I boot it isn't a big motivator either).

juanpablovor 19 Jahren

Liferea (Linux desktop app)

lucumovor 19 Jahren

I use that too. Did you have to use some hack to use it as well?

I found that there are errors when I specify the feed directly, while it works perfectly when I use some wget hackery in the command-field.

AdamGvor 19 Jahren

I use it on Debian sid, no problems. It tells me it's version 1.0.27.

joshwavor 19 Jahren

Google Reader, with this userstyle:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/google-reader-theme-11

dpapathanasiouvor 19 Jahren

SeekSift.com (disclaimer: this is my current project) which is more than just a feed reader, since it provides filtering and (coming soon) personalized recommendations.

sgrahamvor 19 Jahren

Feedreader on PC, only because some of my feeds require passwords, and online ones don't seem to support that too well. Used to be bloglines before that requirement.

jpincheiravor 19 Jahren

I use NewsFire. It's pretty good and fast. It lacks of some funtionality when creating smart feeds (yep, it's got smart feeds), anyway I luv it. :)

[deleted]vor 19 Jahren

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inklesspenvor 19 Jahren

I use Vienna. I tried using Google Reader, but it's crap. It can't handle HTTP-authenticated feeds, and you can't delete feeds en masse.

nreecevor 19 Jahren

Google Reader and http://www.feedity.com (eating our own dog food) for non-RSS pages

ranparasvor 19 Jahren

Used to use Firefox livemarks, changed to Google reader and liking it a lot.

alecvor 19 Jahren

rss2email - get RSS articles by email. Put it in your crontab and let it get messages for you. Avoid annoying ads and stupid layouts by reading it in a text mail client. It's great.

tipjoyvor 19 Jahren

Google-reader. I used to use Sage, the firefox plugin.

epi0Bauquvor 19 Jahren

Google Reader. I use the Next bookmarklet.

christefanovor 19 Jahren

I'm building a Bloglines clone in Drupal.

dawievor 19 Jahren

I use the iGoogle pages as a feedreader

entelarustvor 19 Jahren

NetNewsWire

sylvaincarlevor 19 Jahren

Same here, with subscriptions (feeds) sorted in folders (for topics) and by Attention, a great way for feeds you end up reading/clicking a lot to bubble to the top of your reading list.

etheriauvor 19 Jahren

The new bloglines beta.

vincentliuvor 19 Jahren

Liferea

stevedekortevor 19 Jahren

Vienna for OSX

myoung8vor 19 Jahren

Vienna for Mac.

wlievensvor 19 Jahren

Google Reader!

walesmdvor 19 Jahren

Google Reader

seijivor 19 Jahren

http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ or http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

vuknjevor 19 Jahren

Netvibes

Tichyvor 19 Jahren

Sage

redroryvor 19 Jahren

iGoogle