Inoreader

Someone made a ping on my Unfriendly Connect For Feedly blog post. So, here is an update. I did use Feedly for another year. I do not recall there being a single thing that drove me away, but for months I was pretty frustrated and unhappy using it. To me, Feedly being THE last RSS reader signified the death of it, because I could not see many people putting up with the product. There was a doubt that maybe it was just me that kept me trying to figure out how to change myself to be OK with it. I think if I had migrated to the mobile app, and dropped using it on my computer, then I'd have been fine. There are just so many other things I do in the limited time that I use my phone it never dawns on me to use it there.

Last September was the final straw. Either I was going to either

1. Abandon RSS entirely or 
2. Find something else.

Apparently my something else is Inoreader.

1. I migrated my feeds through an OPML export and import.
2. I started subscribing to new feeds again.
3. Most importantly, when people ask what reader I use, I am happy to reply with a confident "I like Inoreader." 

That last is rather than couch a vague "I want to like Feedly, but ugh. Everyone else seems to be using it."

It has the simple things like keyboard navigation I understand. Space to page down, mark the next post as read, and advance to the next feed. Posts have a unread count that makes sense.

Flickr posts show the image twice. Once in the body and again marked "Original enclosure." 

The integrations are nice, but something I almost never use.

Anyway, I am happily reading RSS and sharing stories again for the first time since the Google Reader shutdown.