DISASTER: Google killing off Google Reader July 1st :(

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#846844 28-Jun-2013 17:47

I've migrated today from Reeder on iPad and iPhone to Feedly. I am very pleasantly surprised. App is free and looks great and works well. Has a nice optional dark theme. Logged into my Google account and it imported all my subs AND starred items flawlessly. Highly recommended.
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#846963 28-Jun-2013 22:41

josephhinvest: I've migrated today from Reeder on iPad and iPhone to Feedly. I am very pleasantly surprised. App is free and looks great and works well. Has a nice optional dark theme. Logged into my Google account and it imported all my subs AND starred items flawlessly. Highly recommended.

Feedly became my preferred option a few days ago. The one click import on the front page was as simple as it gets. Does anyone know the business model?

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#868278 30-Jul-2013 07:30

The folks developing the Old readser found out, oh shock, oh horror, that IT projects are time consuming and they have an audience that wasn't going to pay for it... They are shutting down the platform (leaving only a few people with access to the service).

Yep, good to have decided on Feedly... So far.

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#869854 1-Aug-2013 11:59

It's disappointing, they should have made it software as a service from the start with a free limited trial. I'd pay $5/month for a good online reader in the style of Google Reader or The Old Reader. Alternatively they could have used the Pinboard model which apparently works well.

I'll try Feedly again but I didn't like the style last time.

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#870263 1-Aug-2013 19:42

It's vastly superior to Reader in front end performance. Really a pleasure for the most part.

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#871063 3-Aug-2013 01:37

Feedly is a lot better than when I first tried it, also trying Go Read

http://mattjibson.com/blog/2013/06/26/go-read-open-source-google-reader-clone/

http://www.goread.io/