RIP Google Reader
So the sun's going down on Google Reader.
After reading lots of different takes on this, I'm in general agreement with:
- can't complain when a free service dissappears
- if I want something to be around I have to take responsibility for it myself
- thic change might spur some life into the RSS reader space
I'd like to make my own. In the meantime I've gone with Fever a self-hosted php/mysql thing with a decent front end, including on IOS where I actually read feeds the most, what looks like some good extensibility (and if not, hey, php/mysql!), and the well respected Reeder app on IOS supports it.
Initial install of Fever was totally painless, as was import of my OPML file from Google Reader. Reeder on iPhone looks ok.
Initial thoughts
- Need tp fix up the css for my poor eyesight
- have to add pinboard and app.net to the sharing options, and probably something to email direct to asana
- are there any tagging options? perhaps when I share to pinboard I can have these
- Can I just see the feeds with new stuff? I don't want to see the list of all the feeds. Oh-- it looks like it does this. Obviously the opml doesn't hold my read data. doh!
Reeder for IOS grabs the stuff ok. The interface is alright, gesture friendly, but I'd like some way to send to launch pro, so I can do fun things with adding tags to pinboard. just bookmarking isn't enough.
I was really used to the google reader views, nice and compact.
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