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Comment by jbigelow76 | Hacker News Reader

I looked at Feedly and Newsblur last week as I look for my eventual Google Reader replacement.

Feedly turned me off because it has no open web implementation, it runs through the Chrome web store. Aside from some developer related plugins I refuse to use a completely superfluous wrapper around a website if I am on my PC.

I've tried Newsblur but it's just so "busy" (I know where my mouse is on the vertical axis thank you very much). I may warm to it, but I'll probably end up with something a little simpler. But I wish all the success in the world to conesus, a variety of small, customer focused, customer capitalized independent web service vendors is a good thing for all of us.

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> Feedly turned me off because it has no open web implementation, it runs through the Chrome web store

Seriously, going to the feedly website, the first thing you're confronted with is a list of platform-specific apps you have to download, and "this website wants to install something, ok?"

There seems little reason for this with today's browsers, and it seems like a very good way to make a large proportion of potential users say "no thanks" before even trying it. I know it made me immediately toss feedly into the discard pile in my reader-replacement search...

You should lock that "dorito" that follows your mouse. It allows you to adjust the currently selected story. It's an indicator line. Maybe I should lock it by default and allow you to click on it to have it follow your mouse...

I wasn't aware you could do this. Locking it by default seems like it would make more sense.

Also while I've got you, two issues I've noticed.

1. When I click "All Stories" to refresh my feeds it defaults to listing everything, even though I have it set so I only view one item at a time. As soon as I click the button/arrow to go to the next unread item it shows the first item as it should and everything works fine after that.

2. I seem to run out of items after I've viewed ~20ish and I have to click "All Stories" again to fetch a new bunch

I'm using the dev site if that matters (Issues happen on both sites though). So far these are the only things annoying me and otherwise newsblur is pretty good.

1. Intentional. Otherwise you'd stare at a blank screen until you click a story.

2. That's an unfortunate bug, but one that will probably get sussed out when I work on scaling over the next month.

Dev is largely just a re-skin. They share a backend.

Why can't there be an option in the cast of 1. for it to automatically open the first unread story when I click "All stories"? Basically what I am doing by pressing the first unread button.

I can understand not doing that by default since people may want to see their unread feeds, but I always just go to the first unread one anyway.

In that case, there's a preference waiting for you that you're going to just love...

Haha, excellent, thank you for helping me. Also "Text" view seems to be missing from the Default View preferences, is this intentional?

up / down arrows to go to next story sucks too, fwiw.

Try http://rssident.com

The UI needs work but it is very simple.

Scalability will not be an issue. It was designed from the start to be scalable. Just add servers.

Got it the first time you posted on this story ;)

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