The new features of Feedly have convinced me completely, I have to say: OPML import and export is now perfectly fine, there is better integration of sharing posts and the new tag system is great, even though it could use an edit tags option.

Now that Google Reader is resting in peace in its coffin, Feedly has addressed some of the issues you mentioned in the post, namely, it’s now a webapp which obviously you don’t need a plug-in to use it, and it now offers OPML import as well as export options. Even the lack of search functionality was kind of remedied yesterday with it’s Pro version (I’m an early adopter btw). But the “Organize” part leaves much to be desired. Drag’n’Drop is all good and fine, until I want to move a few dozens of feed sources to another category… I wonder how you did it? Presumably by editing the OPML with Vim?

I just go an invitation to test Hive (http://hivereader.com/) and it looks pretty good so far. I haven’t looked at Old Reader but compared to Feedly, it looks less flashy and more functional – which I like. But you also can’t export your subscriptions there. :(

@ Nathan:

Hmm… Mine doesn’t pacman as much. Seems fairly fast. That said it might be because I have only about ~50 feeds in there right now, and they are almost evenly spread throughout a dozen folders. So typically it only needs to load about 4-5 entries per folder or less.

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

Now that you put it this way it doesn’t seem as much of a hassle. :P

Luke Maciak wrote:

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:
Dude, you win. I bow my head to you. Thy unix beard must be long and strong. :P I’ve been spoiled by web based readers like GReader. Not sure how I’d feel about reading feeds in Mutt… That said, it seems tempting.

well.. why? it’s not like navigating through mutt would be so much different to navigating google reader via keyboard. OPML import is already there, setting everything up is just a matter of:
apt-get install rss2email mutt
r2e new foo@localhost
r2e opmlimport myopmlfile.xml

and you’re ready to go.

Luke Maciak wrote:

@ Nathan:
Yeeeep. That said, as long as I don’t compare it with Feedly or GReader I don’t actually know my feeds are comming in so slow so it doesn’t matter. :P

@ Luke Maciak:

It’s more than update speed, though…even browsing feeds is really slow. I used to be able to ninja my way through all my news feeds and most of my blog feeds in the time it takes to do a build (though in fairness I do OS kernel development so builds are kinda slow). With The Old Reader, I can barely get through half of that, and most of that time is spent looking at Pac-Man rather than reading feeds.

@ alphast:

Yeah, Feedly was really nice. I actually liked that you could set separate views for each folder for example. But the lack of export feature freaked me out a bit. I added and removed quite a few feeds solely in Feedly and if it wasn’t syncing back to GReader I would have lost all of that work.

@ Matt`:

Yeah, Newsfox seems to be strictly local though. I jump between 3 systems daily so that’s kinda a deal breaker.

@ Sujith Abraham:

Looks interesting – I will give it a whirl. :)

@ Chris:

Nice. At least they solved one of these problems. I might switch back again one day, but I’ll need that OPML export feature.

@ Chris:

Wow, great tip. I haven’t really looked too much on Tiny because you have to host it yourself. That was one of the things I wanted to avoid.

@ agn0sis:

Sure, here is a somewhat recent copy of my OPML.

IceBrain wrote:

I don’t read on my phone, since it’s a crappy Samsung feature phone

O_O Dude… Whyyyyyyy! Get smart phone immediately. ;)

@ Chris Wellons:

Yeah, I know – OPML export is like the kind of stuff you could give to an intern and still expect it to get done in reasonable time. Maybe Feedly has shitty interns or something?

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

Dude, you win. I bow my head to you. Thy unix beard must be long and strong. :P I’ve been spoiled by web based readers like GReader. Not sure how I’d feel about reading feeds in Mutt… That said, it seems tempting.

@ Mads Johansen:

That one is neat too. Also, isn’t slashdot a ghost town these days? I went there recently and there were like 4 comments per story. Kinda bummed me out. I remember the good old days when ./ was essentially what reddit is today in terms of traffic/comment volume.

@ Nathan:

Yeeeep. That said, as long as I don’t compare it with Feedly or GReader I don’t actually know my feeds are comming in so slow so it doesn’t matter. :P

@ Austin:

That’s excellent news. Still, these features should have been in there on day one. And by day one I mean the day when Google announced it will be closing down Reader.

@ Chris:
https://twitter.com/feedly/status/347714053562580993

The Old Reader is sloooooooow. It’s actually changed the way I consume my RSS feeds. Hopefully as user base (and donation base) expands, they can fix this problem.

I found 1kpl.us via slashdot, does everything I need :)