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Show HN: BlogRoll - Yet another replacement for Google Reader
I've been working on this in my spare time for the past few months, and in light of the news about Google Reader shutting down, I thought I'd announce this today:
BlogRoll is meant to be an improved version of Google Reader with a tiled interface (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well, similar to a newspaper-style layout
As for people switching over from Google Reader, it can also automatically import your existing feeds (click the "Import from Google Reader" button on the first screen after signing up)
Any feedback or suggestions? I appreciate it and will continue to work on improving this!
- Tomino 14y agoWhy this post has 4 points? When I open the page, I see nothing...
- smnl 14y agoSorry, it's currently running on a single EC2 instance so it may be slow due to today's flood of traffic, though I'm working on scaling it up
- BruceIV 14y agoLooks interesting. Do you have an Android app?
- smnl 14y agoCurrently not, but I am planning to work on native mobile apps soon! I have tried to make the current website mobile-friendly, though it may be slower on older phones since it uses javascript to position the tiles.
- waxjar 14y agoIt broke my back button :(
- smnl 14y agoThis uses Backbone.js on the frontend, and each time you change sites on the left sidebar, a "pushState" event is triggered, which saves the current state of the page (and the back button will cycle through those saved states)