03/14/2013
Aaron CarrollOne of my favorite things about Google Reader was the Chrome plug-in (Super Full Feeds for Google Reader) that let me click “readable” to see the full posts of entries that only put a preview in the RSS feed. Yes, I know this short circuited the intent of the authors who wanted me to go to their sites, but I don’t care. I love reading posts in my reader.
Do any of the alternatives to Google Reader have that functionality?
by BRD on March 14th, 2013 at 13:28
http://www.feedly.com/home#my is what I have used as an iOS app for some time. I started using the website yesterday and it seems like a decent substitute and has the features you are referring to.
by foosion on March 14th, 2013 at 14:12
I’m also favoring feedly at the moment. It appears to be able to show the full story inline.
Feedly has one unfair advantage at the moment – many alternatives are getting hammered so they’re very slow. feedly currently uses google as a back-end, so it’s operating at full speed.
by foosion on March 14th, 2013 at 14:19
After more testing, it doesn’t always show the full post inline.
by Aaron Carroll on March 14th, 2013 at 14:54
I think the preview link serves the function!
by Mark Spohr on March 14th, 2013 at 14:23
This article http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57574290-276/death-knell-sounds-for-rss-and-google-knows-it/
We should all move to Twitter.
I don’t know how well this would work but I’ll give it a try.
by Hal (GT) on March 14th, 2013 at 14:28
Not yest. I’ve been trying out Feedly but don’t see a way to import my Reader feeds which I really need to do.
This is going to be quite the pain. That’s for sure.
I don’t really understand why they are killing Reader off.
by Marc on March 14th, 2013 at 15:59
This usually works to get full text of RSS feeds, but it does not have the “click to display whole article” functionality you describe:
by Austin Frakt on March 14th, 2013 at 16:01
I’ve had mixed results with that and long delays. Still, it can work.
by Kevin Outterson on March 28th, 2013 at 20:30
The Old Reader works fine, once you get through the import queue