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Compared to RSS, centralized information distribution is not better but more profitable. That's the main reason why so many people and corporations have a prono

Compared to RSS, centralized information distribution is not better but more profitable. That's the main reason why so many people and corporations have a pronounced interest in the demise of RSS. But RSS will not die: It's a great standard for decentralized information distribution and a lot of people will keep using it. I agree that most RSS clients are bad though. So those who are really concerned with the future of RSS should work on better clients and applications.

andrethegiant 14y ago
A great client is Shaun Inman's Fever[1]. It scales really well; the more feeds you add to it, the more tailored it becomes to your interests. It's not free but it's easily the best aggregator I've seen. [1] http://feedafever.com/ http://feedafever.com/
- gnufs 14y ago
  As for a hosted FOSS web reader, I can recommend Newsblur: http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com
  - diminish 14y ago
    Nice to hear, I am not the only one who uses RSS for extremely intense reading of all web sites and blogs I admire. Average users are heading more like to a TV-like reading mode; which is close to "passive". But It is nice to see there are a lot of hackers who want to "actively" select what they want to read.
  - quanticle 14y ago
    Newsblur's UI is really excellent. It's the first (and so far) only RSS reader I've paid for.
alexqgb 14y ago
I'm a big fan of NetNewsWire (http://netnewswireapp.com/ http://netnewswireapp.com/) The designers very explicitly set out to create an interface you could navigate with one hand, enabling you to slowly drink your morning coffee with the other.
elehack 14y ago
I've been quite pleased with TinyTinyRSS lately - it's got some UI bugs, esp. in the web client, but self-hosted web-based RSS reading + sync to Android client is full of win for me.
steve19 14y ago
For the iPad Mr. Reader is by far my favorite RSS reader and I have tried many. http://www.curioustimes.de/mrreader/ http://www.curioustimes.de/mrreader/

andrethegiant 14y ago

A great client is Shaun Inman's Fever[1]. It scales really well; the more feeds you add to it, the more tailored it becomes to your interests. It's not free but it's easily the best aggregator I've seen. [1] http://feedafever.com/ http://feedafever.com/

gnufs 14y ago
As for a hosted FOSS web reader, I can recommend Newsblur: http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com
- diminish 14y ago
  Nice to hear, I am not the only one who uses RSS for extremely intense reading of all web sites and blogs I admire. Average users are heading more like to a TV-like reading mode; which is close to "passive". But It is nice to see there are a lot of hackers who want to "actively" select what they want to read.
- quanticle 14y ago
  Newsblur's UI is really excellent. It's the first (and so far) only RSS reader I've paid for.

alexqgb 14y ago

I'm a big fan of NetNewsWire (http://netnewswireapp.com/ http://netnewswireapp.com/) The designers very explicitly set out to create an interface you could navigate with one hand, enabling you to slowly drink your morning coffee with the other.

elehack 14y ago

I've been quite pleased with TinyTinyRSS lately - it's got some UI bugs, esp. in the web client, but self-hosted web-based RSS reading + sync to Android client is full of win for me.

steve19 14y ago

For the iPad Mr. Reader is by far my favorite RSS reader and I have tried many. http://www.curioustimes.de/mrreader/ http://www.curioustimes.de/mrreader/