

Which Reader alternative you choose will depend on your RSS feed reading habits.
GOOGLE READER ALTERNATIVE TRIAL
"Personally, I like Feedly both on the desktop (well, browser) and on mobile, although the magazine-style format takes some getting used to if you're coming from a river-of-news reader like FeedDemon," he wrote to CNET in an e-mail today.įor something more like FeedDemon, this is going to take a lot of trial and error for most people. Nick Bradbury, the creator of a popular Windows desktop RSS reader, just announced that he will shutter FeedDemon after 10 years. Then you extract it all to a folder, and upload them to your prefered Reader replacement service.
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It lets you download your feeds output, called OPML, as a ZIP. That's an important step to take so you don't lose track of any of the sites you're following. So what are you supposed to do with your 60 bazillion feeds?įirst off, you can export them using Google Takeout. And by all means tell us about your favourite RSS reader.It's no surprise to Google obsessives that the company announced yesterday that it will draw the curtains on its popular RSS-managing Reader service. Have you had a chance to test Feedly? Feel free to share your thoughts with us. So it may well be worth checking these out. Whilst I haven’t had time to test other RSS readers, it’s worth noting that Newsblur and Netvibes have been getting some good coverage. Having used Feedly on a desktop, iPhone and iPad Mini, I can vouch very positively for all versions with only a slight gripe that the app didn’t allow much in the way of feed management. It also allows users to log in with their Google credentials easing the migration process and (unsurprisingly) allows social sharing of articles (including support for Buffer – social sharing service).įeedly has a seamless experience between desktop and mobile (app) versions.
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To suit personal viewing tastes, it provides several viewing options including: Titles (similar to the current Google Reader view), Magazine, Timeline, Mosaic, Condensed, Cards or Full Articles. What immediately strikes me about Feedly (yes I’m one of the 500,000 who migrated across a few days ago) is the slick interface that quite frankly puts Google Reader to shame. Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly /4/tip… Their tweet assisting Google Reader users who want to migrate to Feedly, clearly demonstrates the surge of new customers looking to jump ship before Google Reader finally retires. Looking at the Feedly twitter feed, they are clearly being deluged in tweets (and coping well it seems). Google Trends reported a breakout in searches for Feedly over the past week, and its dramatic rise to fame led Mashable to report today that 500,000 Google Readers were migrating to Feedly. One contender that seems to have quickly entered the limelight is the RSS reader Feedly. With Google’s recent blog announcement that Google Reader will be retired on 1 July 2013, online conversations reached fever pitch last week with Google Reader trending on Twitter, and searches for alternatives to Google Reader breaking out in search over the last 7 days.
