When I clicked on an RSS link on a website, my browser ( Firefox) would ask if I want to subscribe to the feed using Reeder (or Google Reader). I settled on Reeder most recently and had it synced on my mobile devices as well. When Google Reader had been working, I tried Gruml, NetNewsWire, and Reeder as RSS reader apps that synced with Google Reader. I even had RSS feeds for specific questions on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange to get answers to computing and statistics questions. I originally used it to follow blogs and training logs of runners, then started following academic blogs (organized into various folders), and even started getting my scientific journal table of contents via RSS to avoid a dozen TOC emails every Friday afternoon. If you don’t use RSS, it’s worth looking into. I used to use Google Reader to keep all of my RSS feeds synced. Apparently it was popular but not sufficiently profitable. What's your favourite Google Reader replacement, or have you given up on RSS altogether? Share with iTnews readers in the comments section.Unfortunately, back in July 2013 Google dropped it’s immensely popular RSS feed reader. This requires a bit more effort than just migrating OPML files from one platform to another, but if the closure of Google Reader annoys you enough and you don’t trust the alternatives, that’s the way to go. RSS is an open format and if you have time, there are bare-bones readers that can be hacked into whatever you like, such as Tiny Tiny RSS. Other browsers have similar alternatives. For Firefox, try Brief or NewsFox for instance. Your favourite browser is most likely able to read RSS feeds too, either natively or through an extension. It’s maybe not as feature-rich as Feedly, but arguably an easier migration from Reader and after the initial storming by all those users Google didn’t think existed, now performs really well.
#Google rss reader for android#
Oh yes: Feedly is free too, at least for now and has mobile clients for Android and iOS.Ī second RSS browser worth checking out is The Old Reader which has a layout similar to Google Reader. Search in Feedly isn’t as good as in Google Reader though and there are no stats either, but fingers crossed the developers will get around to providing that. The magazine style layout makes your feeds easy to read but better yet, it’s customisable, so if you want a list with one line descriptions, Feedly does it for you. Getting going with Feedly is very easy too – you don’t even need to import the OPML file, but can get feeds simply by logging in with Google. That said, browser-based reader Feedly has been rejuvenated by the impending Google Reader closure and is now a firm replacement favourite. Google Reader with its clean layout, great search, feed stats, browser integration, sharing abilities and more is tough to beat, which no doubt explains why it swept the floors with RSS competitors over the years. Which feed reader you prefer depends on your preferences and how you use RSS. There’s nothing like seeing “56,282 unread items” to make you choke on your morning coffee as you check email. One thing’s for sure though: if you’re an Inbox Zero fanatic, don’t import RSS feeds into Outlook or Thunderbird even if they both can do it. There are pros and cons to both approaches, but in our view, the browser-based one wins out mainly because, well, RSS is mostly about web site content so you’ll be working with a browser anyway in the reader. The main consideration here will be if you want to use a standalone program or rely on a browser-based one for reading feeds. In most cases this is a painless process and you’re ready after a few moments to start foraging your feeds. Your OPML file can now be imported into a different feed reader. Yes, RSS is unfortunately yet another IT area riddled with an alphabet soup of acronyms. This is known as an Outline Processor Markup Language or OPML file and is in eXtended Markup Language (XML) format.
#Google rss reader archive#
The ZIP format compressed archive contains metadata such as your Google Reader followers and who you follow, the likes, notes and shares and starred posts as well.
This is compressed down, but building the archive is slow, taking roughly five hours to complete despite Google’s allegedly limitless amount of cloud computing power. Google says that until September this year, you can snag it from the Takeout page,ĭepending on the amount of subscriptions, it can be a fair amount of data: for this writer, 238 megabytes in eight files, covering just under 700 feeds. First, there’s still time to get your data out of Google Reader.
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