If you use RSS, give Feedly a try

[chaircrusher]

I have also used Feedly since the demise of Google Reader, and it was a little bit Mise en Abyme when the image in this post of BoingBoing in Feedly showed up in Feedly.

[pegritz]

I love Feedly. It does exactly what I need it to do, period. Couldn’t ask for more.

[Gamen]

Clearly I am the sole user of RSSOwl. Stand-alone apps get no love. I’d still be using Thunderbird for my RSS needs if it hadn’t had a bug that caused it to lose the ability to update feeds automatically. (Obviously, I don’t use webmail either.)

[jsroberts]

I’ve been using gReader since Google Reader died. It’s powered by Feedly, but the appearance is very similar to the old Google format. It doesn’t handle videos well though, so I’ll be checking out some of these suggestions. So far Inoreader is working pretty well for me.

[pjz]

I’d been wanting to self-host anyway, so I ran TT-RSS in a docker container for a while (the only possible way I’ll allow PHP on my box). It eventually went off the rails and started eating a ton of cpu, so I switched to commafeed, which I’ve been happily running for a year or so. Easy install, (much easier than TT-RSS!), nice and featureful, and it also works with News+.

[L_Mariachi]

I’ve been using Vienna, set to refresh every 15 minutes, but the BB RSS feed only seems to update once every 12 or maybe 24 hours? All my other feeds update normally. The link I’m using is http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag
on which as I write this the most recent entry is the Octopus Grabs Camera post from ~30 hours ago.

Is there a more frequently fed feed I should be using?

[jimejim]

One thing that isn’t clear up front is that Feedly will only track your unread items for 30 days or so. It’ll keep them longer if you star or tag the items, but just know that going in so you don’t lose stuff if you’re thinking it’ll stay there forever.

[Paul_Shotts]

I am quite surprised that nobody has mentioned Netvibes as an alternative. I love it!

[muddi900]

I use feedly, but hate their mobile apps. The iOS app has improved a lot(I still use Newsify because of open in Chrome option) but the android app is slow and clunky. They have an API, but I haven’t yet found a decent alternative on Android.

[imaguid]

i tried a lot of the alternatives when google announced they were shutting down google reader, and i just didin’t like any of them so i figured out a way to force google to handle my RSS feeds whether they wanted to or not.

i use an RSS->email service to send feeds to a gmail account i don’t use for anything else and now i can use gmail’s web interface (which wasn’t that different from google reader’s interface) or i can use any IMAP or POP3 capable email client, so it opens up a lot of options. the only drawback is that the subscription management is in a separate service - but how often does the need to manage subscriptions come up? (not often for me)

google services come and go, that’s one of the lessons of google reader, but i’m reasonably confident that gmail is here to stay.