After all the hoopla following the announcement of google reader's eol, I was thinking about possible replacements. As a very regular user, I use it on multiple computers and devices during the day. Any replacement would either have to be hosted remotely (like GR) to provide synchronization, or leverage something like dropbox for the synchronization. I assumed the latter would be straightforward and something that someone had already done but found this article when I did some googling. It's obviously a pretty complex problem to solve. My thinking now is that it should be possible to maintain a filesystem database using something like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir</a> to avoid the locking issues.
There is an old add-on from Firefox called Brief. It takes your Live Bookmarks (RSS feeds) and wraps a nice GUI around it so you can use your Live Bookmarks effectively like how other RSS readers behave.<p>Firefox syncs all of your bookmarks which would include your Live Bookmarks/RSS feeds. Assuming (I have not tested it yet) that this sync process retains the state of your read/un-read items, this could potentially be a hybrid solution where you are using a locally installed feed reader, while at the same time you can sync your data without loosing its attributes.<p>Does this make any sense? I'm not a developer, just a reader.