@gpittman Hmm, this a little tricky ( 🎶It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time. It's Tricky...) 😅. Seriously though, Feedbin has a few good things that I've 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 can't 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 they'd all sync with the backend. It's 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?
@Gaby @gpittman Agree completely with Gabz, the ability to subscribe to newsletters alone is worth the cost for me, as well as bringing YouTube and Twitter feeds into it.
@peterimoore @Gaby I haven't explored the newsletter, Twitter, or YouTube options yet. HEY has the Feed, where newsletters go, but newsletters aren't the only things that go in there so they might get lost. Off to explore a bit more.
@gpittman Portability for me. I’ve been a happy Newsblur user since Google Reader died, and it has a TON of features. I’m mostly using it as backend to my RSS app of choice, but sometimes visit the site. Can look a bit messy, but it’s worth exploring. Feed training, for instance, is something I haven’t found elsewhere.
@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 wasn't so interested and involved with the web and website-based culture, then I'd 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 Yes, portability is one thing, quality is another. I like NetNewsWire, but you can’t get it on Android – Feedbin is a really good (progressive) web app, so I use it there. Getting Twitter feeds in an RSS reader is pretty cool too.
@gpittman I've used my Feedly account for the past 8 years and didn't even realize there was a pay option. Admittedly, I don't do the thing where people pretend they're tech journalists and subscribe to thousands of feeds to have the service aggregate them. My RSS reader is a "magazine" of people I follow where I read everything.
I can not scream THIS! enough to @mariovillalobos about, if your newsletter doesn’t have an RSS feed then I don’t read your newsletter.
@gpittman for me, it's 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.