I am over my limit for feed to follow on Inoreader free. I may have to either pay or move to a different reader. I’ve been experimenting with Wordpress reader but I’m finding it cumbersome.
@bradenslen WP's reader is strange. Would be great if it worked well and accepted all RSS feeds, but it doesn't seem to. You should look at splitting your your reading to localized readers on different platforms if you want free. Then, all read later tracking and interesting stuff happens on pocket/instapaper.
@bradenslen I don’t know Inoreader—what is keeping you from paying for it? Is it not worth
paying for? I also wonder what you are looking for in a reader. I mean if it
reads RSS—what else is there? (I don’t understand using a reader and am
looking for some enlightenment. Don’t think you’ve written about this yet—is
there something you’re looking for beyond basic notification that a new
post/comment has materialized? To me, they seem like e-mail clients—not much to it.)
@kicks Oh, Inoreader works just fine and is normally the online reader I recommend. I'm just cheap. That and all these online payments start to add up over time so I hate adding another into the mix.
First I need to clear out some dead wood on Inoreader.
@nitinkhanna I ruthlessly unsubscribed to feeds - anything that I was not reading and/or had gone dead - and got back below the limit. So I'm good with Ino for now.
@kicks I rotate, weekly, between my Linux and Windows laptops so I like using online feed readers as opposed to software versions running on the computers. Otherwise I could use a software based reader, probably for free or one time payment.
@bradenslen Wait, there's a Wordpress reader? I mean I know there are WP RSS reader plugins, but most of those don't fit my criteria for feed readers.
@kicks Rss readers have some of the same features as email clients, but I'd rather have all my subscribed sites in a different place than my inbox. As it is I'm already subscribed to too many discussion lists with high traffic. The best ones have bookmarklets or extensions that will let you subscribe to a feed extremely easily. Inoreader also has the feature where you can create feeds for pages without them, I think. I don't use it so I'm not sure.
@ladyhope It's part of Wordpress.com and it comes free when you register an account there. Wordpress Reader has an awkward UI, but you can follow nearly anything that has a RSS feed, it's not just limited to Wordpress blogs.
@ladyhope I’m wondering lately if there’s a better way to do ‘readers’. Like you say, once
you are monitoring 100s of sites, it’s disgusting to log in each day and see 100s of
unread posts. I’m wondering if there’s something that could give me an overview
of all the activity that’s going on out there, so I can then decide what to
read. No ‘unread’ counts, no notifications.
And, rather than having a big feed of recent activity, have a list of
all the ‘bloggers’/‘writers’ so I can see who’s active—maybe with a little
graph of how much is going on with them, maybe a list of recent post titles or
something…
Makes me think of the Peach social network, where the ‘inbox’ was names of
people who had updated—you could then go in and view their stuff. It was never
presented as a big newsfeed or a big inbox of individual posts.
@kicks i started using a feed reader the other day, and already I don't like opening it to find a stack of unread posts. so i'm sticking with having blogs of interest saved on my pinboard, and just checking in on them when I feel like it. some I read daily, others weekly, still others, whenever... works for me.
@tones That’s the sensible way to do it. I find a number of unread posts in a feed annoying too. There's nothing wrong with just going to a website to read content.