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It was great meeting you (@s3ththompson ) in NYC a few months back. And as we chatted after you presentation I promised to share some of my learnings as I've been testing different tools. Finally found some idle time on a flight, so here's some initial thoughts about the other tools out there.
The layout and reading experience in feedburger is better than any other service on this list. But if you tent to follow more visual feeds over text based ones, viewing items one by one becomes quite a chore after a while. I was a happy subscriber for a year or so. Once I decided to include all my interests into my reader (tumblr, instagram, vimeo, youtube, etc.) it just couldn't handle it in a flexible way.
Pros
UI experience is polished.
Good typographic layout for longer articles.
Great content extractor for feeds that don't include the whole article. And the setting value is remembered at a feed level.
This one is an interesting open source project because of the creators persistence for simplicity and privacy. It's focused on text/blog content. The RSS part works well and does nice things like loading embedded media like youtube links through private proxies. But it lacks any alternative views like grids for more visual content.
this is one of the more advanced readers out there. Handles most feeds types like a champ, and a lot of them. I've had thousands of tumblrs in a folder and it just works. And what's great about Inoreader is how you can set a view type (magazine, feed, gallery, etc) per group of feeds. For example seeing gallery grid for tumblr follows and a more typical text feed for kottke.org, etc. Inoreader is the closest thing I've found to a true funnel for the Internet. The UI, typography and overall aesthetic isn't really that elevated. But Inoreader's customizability makes it a very versatile tool for power users.
Pros
Flexbile front-end with multiple views per feed group
Can Handle a large number of feeds
Filters, highlights and other pro features to help you weed out the noise from the feeds.
Cons
Sub-bar typography
No real reader view
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It was great meeting you (@s3ththompson ) in NYC a few months back. And as we chatted after you presentation I promised to share some of my learnings as I've been testing different tools. Finally found some idle time on a flight, so here's some initial thoughts about the other tools out there.
Feedbin
The layout and reading experience in feedburger is better than any other service on this list. But if you tent to follow more visual feeds over text based ones, viewing items one by one becomes quite a chore after a while. I was a happy subscriber for a year or so. Once I decided to include all my interests into my reader (tumblr, instagram, vimeo, youtube, etc.) it just couldn't handle it in a flexible way.
Pros
Cons
MINIFLUX
This one is an interesting open source project because of the creators persistence for simplicity and privacy. It's focused on text/blog content. The RSS part works well and does nice things like loading embedded media like youtube links through private proxies. But it lacks any alternative views like grids for more visual content.
Pros
Cons
Inoreader
this is one of the more advanced readers out there. Handles most feeds types like a champ, and a lot of them. I've had thousands of tumblrs in a folder and it just works. And what's great about Inoreader is how you can set a view type (magazine, feed, gallery, etc) per group of feeds. For example seeing gallery grid for tumblr follows and a more typical text feed for kottke.org, etc. Inoreader is the closest thing I've found to a true funnel for the Internet. The UI, typography and overall aesthetic isn't really that elevated. But Inoreader's customizability makes it a very versatile tool for power users.
Pros
Cons
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