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Each time a prompt for an alternative news reader appears, this one seems to get some attention: http://www.newsblur.com/ http://www.newsblur.com/ I personall

Each time a prompt for an alternative news reader appears, this one seems to get some attention: http://www.newsblur.com/ http://www.newsblur.com/ I personally just use the newsreader built into Opera now. Just good enough for my needs.

nextparadigms 15y ago
"Absolute Reads: Daring Fireball" Really?
- conesus 15y ago
  Clear and powerful voice, highly influential, and an eye for good design. And it makes for a great demo of NewsBlur's Original view. Also, folders are alphabetical and I wanted to put it above the Blogs folder.
conesus 15y ago
NewsBlur gets attention here because it's built by an active HNer, me. And it's entirely open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay http://github.com/samuelclay. Follow me on GitHub to watch how quickly NewsBlur grows everyday. In fact, the NewsBlur iPhone app is also open-source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/media/iphone https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/media/iph.... This might be very helpful to somebody learning how to write an iPhone app on their own. I plan to blog about all the techniques and tricks I learned, from the perspective of a Python/JavaScript developer.
- wsdrdsw 15y ago
  Very nice, but why so slow?
  - DevX101 15y ago
    My understanding is that it gets a bit faster and you get a few extra perks if you purchasea (pretty cheap) subscription. Not a bad deal for an awesome newsreader.
- u48998 15y ago
  Open Source gets me excited, but then I compare the updates in NewsBlur and GReader and I see that my feeds are arriving earlier in GReader than NewsBlur (just because I'm not a paying customer?), I loose hope.
- abrowne 15y ago
  Just created an account and imported my Google Reader feeds. I like what I've tried so far, but it doesn't look like there's an option to sort feeds by oldest first. (Maybe no one else sorts this way, but it's the way that makes sense for how I read feeds.)
  - conesus 15y ago
    By oldest first, you mean oldest stories first? This is a prioritized feature: http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/reading_from_old_to_new http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/reading_from_old_.... I've been sitting on it since very few users have asked for it, but I have intentions of building it one day soon.
    - abrowne 15y ago
      Yes, exactly that. And personally, I'd make it a global option, but a per-feed option -- either in addition or instead of the global option -- would be fine with me as well.
- cpeterso 15y ago
  I love that the NewsBlur home page (for unregistered users) jumps right into the action! As a Google Reader user, I was able to see right away (without having to poke around or register) how NewsBlur works.
- svat 15y ago
  I couldn't tell from the website: does NewsBlur have social features -- can you share items with friends (or even just publicly would also be enough), can you follow others' shared items, and post comments on them?
pixelcloud 15y ago
Feedly is really good too.

nextparadigms 15y ago

"Absolute Reads: Daring Fireball" Really?

conesus 15y ago
Clear and powerful voice, highly influential, and an eye for good design. And it makes for a great demo of NewsBlur's Original view. Also, folders are alphabetical and I wanted to put it above the Blogs folder.

conesus 15y ago

NewsBlur gets attention here because it's built by an active HNer, me. And it's entirely open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay http://github.com/samuelclay. Follow me on GitHub to watch how quickly NewsBlur grows everyday. In fact, the NewsBlur iPhone app is also open-source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/media/iphone https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/media/iph.... This might be very helpful to somebody learning how to write an iPhone app on their own. I plan to blog about all the techniques and tricks I learned, from the perspective of a Python/JavaScript developer.

wsdrdsw 15y ago
Very nice, but why so slow?
- DevX101 15y ago
  My understanding is that it gets a bit faster and you get a few extra perks if you purchasea (pretty cheap) subscription. Not a bad deal for an awesome newsreader.
u48998 15y ago
Open Source gets me excited, but then I compare the updates in NewsBlur and GReader and I see that my feeds are arriving earlier in GReader than NewsBlur (just because I'm not a paying customer?), I loose hope.
abrowne 15y ago
Just created an account and imported my Google Reader feeds. I like what I've tried so far, but it doesn't look like there's an option to sort feeds by oldest first. (Maybe no one else sorts this way, but it's the way that makes sense for how I read feeds.)
- conesus 15y ago
  By oldest first, you mean oldest stories first? This is a prioritized feature: http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/reading_from_old_to_new http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/reading_from_old_.... I've been sitting on it since very few users have asked for it, but I have intentions of building it one day soon.
  - abrowne 15y ago
    Yes, exactly that. And personally, I'd make it a global option, but a per-feed option -- either in addition or instead of the global option -- would be fine with me as well.
cpeterso 15y ago
I love that the NewsBlur home page (for unregistered users) jumps right into the action! As a Google Reader user, I was able to see right away (without having to poke around or register) how NewsBlur works.
svat 15y ago
I couldn't tell from the website: does NewsBlur have social features -- can you share items with friends (or even just publicly would also be enough), can you follow others' shared items, and post comments on them?

pixelcloud 15y ago

Feedly is really good too.