@gpittman Hmm, this a little tricky ( š¶Itās Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme thatās right on time. Itās Trickyā¦) š . Seriously though, Feedbin has a few good things that Iāve liked. First, it syncs very fast, articles or subs come in almost instantly. you can get your newsletters there, their web app is a delight to use. I am sure there are many other nerdy things about Feedbin that I can think of right now. I canāt speak for paid Feedly, I have only used their free tier, and is not as fast as Feedbin is. What I like about a backend service is that I can move from one RSS app to another RSS app without losing anything or having to import or my subs every time since theyād all sync with the backend. Itās not like when you move from one To-do app to another and have to move all your tasks over and over. Does that make sense?
@maique @peterimoore @Gaby I am looking forward to paying for Feedbin again. Amongst the other features mentioned, there is also support for Micro.blog and generally speaking seems to be an ethos of both independence and support of the open web from the developers.
If I wasnāt so interested and involved with the web and website-based culture, then Iād probably decide to use either local feeds or the sync provided by the reader (example: iCloud with Reeder, which also includes the read-later feature).
@gpittman Iāve used my Feedly account for the past 8 years and didnāt even realize there was a pay option. Admittedly, I donāt do the thing where people pretend theyāre tech journalists and subscribe to thousands of feeds to have the service aggregate them. My RSS reader is a āmagazineā of people I follow where I read everything.
I can not scream THIS! enough to @mariovillalobos about, if your newsletter doesnāt have an RSS feed then I donāt read your newsletter.
@gpittman for me, itās all the non-standard feed features. Twitter accounts come in beautifully, including expanding the content of most links to be very readable without ever clicking outside. Newsletter subscriptions, which I can separate in my normal email but this way all my longer form reading happens in the same place. And finally, I do some work with the server side rules to make it easier to find/see just what I care about.