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I assume probably most of you use Google Reader for following and reading RSS or Atom feeds. My question is are there any web alternatives that some of you have used and are happy with?

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The answer is probably: No ;-) – Ivo Flipse Jul 5 '10 at 11:16
Well, AlternativeTo lists at least 20 alternatives, so... – Al Everett Feb 27 '11 at 18:19
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A new one, Feedingo, recently joined the pack. I've given it a try, it is lightweight and simplifies the experience. Google Reader's interface is rather busy, though not sure if that is enough to make me switch.

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Probably the best answer to date. Accepted. – Slavo Jul 12 '10 at 11:29
Unfortunately, the free account only allows 50 feeds and the free account can't import feeds via OPML. – Leigh Riffel Jul 14 '10 at 19:33
I was surprised to find that there is no search feature :( – Tshepang Dec 12 '10 at 7:26
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Feedingo is now closed – Zoredache Aug 13 '11 at 8:47
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I'm very happy with Feedly, a firefox and chrome extension that reads feeds from google reader but displays them in a much more user friendly format.

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i do not think that browser-addons fit "web alternatives" ... – akira Jul 5 '10 at 10:01
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True, but the OP asks for "web alternatives" in the title, and "alternatives" in the question body, so I thought it might be useful anyway. – jfoucher Jul 5 '10 at 11:04
Sorry for the confusion, I was asking about web. Thanks for the answer anyway. – Slavo Jul 5 '10 at 15:01
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I really liked Fever but recently switched to Google Reader for the iPhone and iPad App Reeder.

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I've used Bloglines in the past, but always come back to GReader

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I don't think that at the moment there is a significant functional difference between the two, except that if you use other Google apps, it's convenient to use Reader as well. – Michael Kohne Jul 11 '10 at 23:21
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Bloglines is shutting down in October of 2010. – Michael Teper Sep 11 '10 at 6:49
@Michael It's still alive. – Tshepang Dec 12 '10 at 7:30
@Stevek Why do you always come back to Google Reader? – Tshepang Dec 12 '10 at 7:30
@Tshepang - none of the other services I've tried are as simple and easy to use as GReader (IMHO of course) – Shevek Dec 23 '10 at 10:25
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Just an alternative idea, I don't know if can be useful for you.

You can register all feeds you are interested on FriendFeed.

And then you can set in the Notification Options to send you an instant email every new post.

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A few newer entries I've come across:

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You can subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds from your iGoogle page

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I'm posting this as an answer just for future reference.

Since I see people listing browser plugins here, too, I'll link to two alternatives, which basically rely on Google Reader.

  1. FeedSquares (a Chrome plugin)
  2. Re-Reader (a bookmarklet)

This doesn't answer my question, though. I'm still looking for web alternatives, probably unsuccessfully.

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I really liked Netvibes. It is so much more than google reader.

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My favorite is DailyRotation, it just simply works

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I have recently heard about the project called Eventr. It is in a beta version now but seems really interesting project, since it has some social network functionality also.

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Well... I don't speak Russian, unfortunately. – Slavo Jul 23 '10 at 9:23
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I've tried a number of alternatives over time, and while some of them were okay-ish, none of them were really better than Google Reader. But what killed all of them for me invariably was that nothing provides as good a mobile browser interface as Google Reader. Since I do much of my RSS browsing on my phone, that's a deal breaker for me. So it depends on your requirements.

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Would you care to list those alternatives? I didn't ask for better ones, just alternatives. – Slavo Jul 12 '10 at 11:26
You asked for ones we are happy with. ;-) – Peter Eisentraut Jul 13 '10 at 19:10
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http://tt-rss.org/ is another open-source self-hosted solution that seems popular.

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