I'm annoyed with Google Reader, over one minor defect. Google Reader automatically removes items from your RSS folder after 30 days. I don't always have time to read through my full RSS feed. There are a lot of feeds in my "hitlist" folder, that I'm evaluating but don't have time to search through.
On the Google Reader discussion forum, a bunch of people have been asking "Give us more than 30 days before RSS items expire, or make it a configuration setting!" That was several months ago. This is a minor fix that should take at most a day. It hasn't been implemented, even though quite a few people have asked for it. I'm starting to get concerned that Google is no longer relevant.
I'm on the market for a new RSS reader. Zed Shaw said he wanted a decent RSS reader, but he wanted one with a nice keyboard interface. Why doesn't he write his own? I'm interested in either a mouse or keyboard interface.
The features I want in my RSS reader are:
- It may be either web-based or a Windows desktop application.
- It must be able to load my current subscriptions from Google Reader. Google Reader supports "export subscriptions to xml", and any serious reader probably supports this feature.
- It must support folders or tagging.
- It must not automatically expire items after a certain period of time.
- It should be convenient for me to read through my RSS feed, or leave items unread.
- Google Reader lets me explicitly mark items read/unread, rather than automatically marking them read as they appear onscreen.
3 comments:
I'm happy with Bloglines (https://www.bloglines.com/).
I tried a bunch of them and Google Reader still was the best.
You may "Star" (press s) an item, and use the starred items as a second reading list.
I "star" items all the time, but those get lost in an unfilterable list of all starred items. AFAIK. Admittedly, I probably just don't know what I'm doing...
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