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Feedbin is an RSS reader with a beautiful reading experience.
I find https://feedbin.com/ almost identical (Feedly feels a bit too different for my liking, but is clearly the most popular) but it also feels like times have moved on and I don't find myself using it in the same way. The blogosphere isn't quite what it was back in the late 00s.
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Fast, clean and unique feed reader
Shout out to https://bazqux.com, a modern Google Reader replacement and the only SaaS I pay for. I'm not affiliated, just really love it. It's been solid and awesome for me for over 7 years now.
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Miniflux is a minimalist web-based RSS reader. It's very easy to use.
I was a heavy Google Reader user and mourned it for years. A couple years ago, though, I discovered Miniflux [1], and haven't really missed Reader since.
What I do miss from the Reader days, though, is widespread RSS support. I wonder if the death of such a prominent RSS reader gave sites "permission" to stop supporting RSS, and pushed RSS into further obscurity. Anecdotally, it feels like RSS is a...
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An unofficial, alternative interface to Hacker News
As someone who prefers both chronological river (https://techmeme.com/river) AND a metric of popularity (upvotes) nothing beats https://hckrnews.com. I wish that design was more common.
Instead of having higher ranking posts climb to the top, a hotness bar and a popular bar to the left of links is ideal. ...
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Read all your favorite online content in one place. Import your subscriptions in one click, find your friends, and start sharing.
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A desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. You can use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki
Fraidycat [0] is a very good substitute, plus, it's more streamline
[0]: https://fraidyc.at.
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A platform to discover and follow amazing developer blogs 🚀
I have been building an RSS reader for developers called https://diff.blog. It's havily integrated with GitHub. It automatically follows the blog of developers as well as organizations you are part of when you sign up. It's been growing steadily over the past 2 years and has over 1200+ users now. Do give it a try!
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Digg 1.0 meets the mother of news aggregators
Not an RSS reader by design, but I'm with https://upstract.com — Made by the original Popurls inventor.
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