Goodbye, Feedly

Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad?<p>Live and let live, I say. Not everyone is running a charity and Feedly is nowhere even near the top of the list of software ripping off their users or selling their data to make money.<p>What the author labels as &quot;cluttered&quot; is really not that cluttered at all. It looks much better than an completely empty list in the alternative they prefer. But that&#x27;s just UI.<p>I am not saying don&#x27;t move to another alternative. I am just saying that the reasons the author is calling Feedly out for are unjustified and don&#x27;t really make sense.

I dont understqnd this attitude. I use feedly and like the author of tfa I don&#x27;t pay them any money, so I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. I have a lot of sympathy for feedly: it seems like a really hard thing to get people to pay for. What does the author think feedly should do with its free tier?<p>Before feedly I self hosted TinyTinyRss for a while (kind of slow) and before that Google Reader. And before that Newsblur. I never paid for any of them and now I have more than enough paid subscriptions for stuff. Reading rss feeds just doesn&#x27;t make it over the line of things I&#x27;d be willing to pay for.<p>Edit: I pay £10&#x2F;month for Adobe Creative Cloud and get Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator, etc. I pay ~£8&#x2F;month for Office 365 and get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. All massively rich and powerful tools. Why does feedly imagine I would want to pay £5&#x2F;month to read rss feeds?

This writer is really entitled. It is a free tier for a service that costs money to host and maintain. Of course there are upgrade prompts.<p>I use Feedly (free) as a hosting service, and Reeder or one of the other many great RSS client apps as the frontend to it, so I don’t have to see the feedly interface.But the Feedly API I use constantly and it is extremely solid.<p>That’s part of the greatness of RSS services. If the service’s UI bothers you, you don’t have to use it.

Try Inoreader. Besides a bevy of rich feature set, Inoreader has sales ONLY on Black Friday, and they usually extend the service by an additional 6 months if you pay yearly. It lacks Feedly&#x27;s stupid UI. It&#x27;s functional, fast, and I can zip through hundreds of feeds in no time. My favourite is the IFTTT and Readwise integration baked in. Alternatively, you can have the complete experience in Vivaldi itself. It comes with the RSS reader and a mail client. Absolute DOPE! Inoreader allows you to keep track of specific keywords and automatically follow the RSS feeds. I am waiting for a better UI around Vivaldi&#x27;s RSS reader, and will reevaluate my RSS reader needs close to the end of the subscription period.

So you liked Feedly for almost 10 years, but never bothered to support them financially. And now you complain that they go the extra mile trying to earn money?

OP is using a free service. Free service introduces changes which irritate OP. OP stops using service and looks for alternatives.<p>All good.<p>What I (and seemingly many other commenters) take issue with is the tone of the piece. That the OP has been disappointed, that they know better than Feedly management about what features to include and how to market them, that they are owed some sort of a user experience.<p>I suppose the OP is offering this post as guidance and explanation for Feedly management but I can’t imagine that this moves the needle.

I’ve been very happy with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com</a><p>It’s a paid RSS syncing service and web app too, costs $5 per month, I use it with Reeder (and NetNewsWire etc). It doesn’t have any social cruft or AI assistants or ML companions.<p>I was also a Feedly user when I decided to try Feedbin, and I immediately noticed how much faster fetching the feeds was on Feedbin. I also like to have my email newsletters in same place (forward them to a Feedbin-provided email address), and I can have filters to mark things like sponsored posts and podcast show notes as read automatically, basically like mute filters.<p>Feedly premium tier costs pretty much the same, and I wonder how well it would stack against Feedbin. There’s also Inoreader which I think offers pretty similar feature set for a pretty similar price.<p>Feedly free tier is excellent, and you can work around many of its shortcomings by using an RSS reader app. For example, Feedly free doesn’t offer full text articles, but I can extract the full text with Reeder&#x2F;NetNewsWire&#x2F;etc on the client-side. If you really don’t care about speed, mute filters, or reading newsletters in your RSS reader, then Feedly free tier is already more than enough.

I left Feedly for the same reason a while ago. I think there is a trend of &quot;editorialization&quot; of all kinds of apps that tries to sell new features and &quot;experiences&quot; to users instead of focusing on the core ideas, which I find really annoying. Plus the Feedly UI itself is annoying and doesn&#x27;t give me a simple mailbox-like view like normal RSS readers.<p>The solution I went with is native RSS readers (like the author), but backed by an Open Reader server (The Old Reader in my case, but there are others) for syncing between devices. On the Mac, Vienna as a client is quite nice.

Yeah, no sympathy with Erik here. Feedly is —for free— polling RSS feeds for you and giving you centralised, platform agnostic access.<p>They <i>want</i> you to pay for it, and features like an increased polling rate are the soft features they use to tempt you up to a paid platform. Adverts catch some of the users that don&#x27;t want to pay. I assume you still use Google et al? Why is a search engine or Amazon janking up their SERPs with inline ads better than the odd ad on Feedly? You still use them? I think you&#x27;re holding Feedly to an unfair standard.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, a desktop client is great <i>iff that&#x27;s all you need</i>. Feedly is providing one more feature: network centralisation. I check Feedly from my desktop, my laptop and my phone. I could host something myself but for free (or pennies a day), Feedly keeps everything in sync.

I pay for NewsBlur and have been doing so for years. It is an underappreciated, excellent, fully-featured, indie RSS feed reader with support for twitter and youtube etc. It can extract full text from feeds. It can both receive emails (newsletters) and send emails (when a feed updates). They have an excellent free tier.<p>I have tried every other competitor and no one comes close.

<i>&gt; One of the features is that I will get “new articles up to 10x faster”. What’s that supposed to mean? That I have not been getting new articles straight away when I visit Feedly?</i><p>One of the features of Pro is that they&#x27;ll pull the feeds you&#x27;re subscribed to at a higher frequency. I think this is an example of doing freemium well!

I&#x27;ve tried all the free services listed in this thread, and feedly is the best for me. I&#x27;d admit I never really like it&#x27;s UI, but it&#x27;s usable. And it didn&#x27;t change much all these years.<p>Nowadays, I meanly just use the extension &quot;Feedly Notifier&quot; [1] to read (or open directly) articles in my browser, so I barely open feedly.com anymore. I highly recommend it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;feedly-notifier&#x2F;egikgfbhipinieabdmcpigejkaomgjgb?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;feedly-notifier&#x2F;eg...</a>

I pay for Feedly, and have since the beginning, but I don’t love it. Their search function has severe usability issues, which I’ve emailed them, and their enhanced features are stupid and useless.<p>I don’t like Feedly, and use Unread on the iPhone to read the feeds. They are like the Evernote of today. Every year I think I’ll dump them and probably will. It’s just been laziness so far.<p>I pay, they feed my RSS feeds, so in that regard, it works. But yeah, I feel OP.

Growth vs. value, development vs. maintenance, innovation vs. operations.<p>It really seems like a lot of projects should embrace the the path of becoming a stable product: Charging 10 USD a year, assigning a single person to a comfy job of maintaining the app without adding new features. Just maintaining infrastructure, updating packages, and doing the occasional exchange of stack when old technologies are deprecated...<p>Why doesn&#x27;t that happen more?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tt-rss.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tt-rss.org&#x2F;</a> is a free software, self-hosted alternative and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttrss.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttrss.info&#x2F;</a> is a paid hosted offering.

Have we really fallen this low? How are there so many people in this comment section defending feedly while berating the author for what I would consider a level headed and fair assessment of the state of it.<p>As someone hunting constantly for a reader as simple as Google reader and feedly use to be it all makes perfect sense and is equally frustrating to me.<p>It&#x27;s an RSS reader that no longer accepts many RSS feeds, that is a more than valid criticism and we should be allowed to be picky about that without being berated by our fellow HN readers.

NetNewsWire user here. It’s very good. Would love one running on Linux natively.

My biggest pet peeve with Feedly is that it doesn’t allow for filtering by keyword (which could be done on-device to save server resources if that’s a concern) without a monthly subscription that includes tons of things I don’t care about, like this AI thing and whatnot. I’d even pay a one time fee for this right. But forcing users to pay for something so simple in perpetuity seems ridiculous.

For those in the Apple ecosystem I recommend NetNewsWire. It can sync with iCloud without needing any extra services. I use it on my Macs, iPads and iPhone.<p>(I&#x27;m not affiliated with them, just a happy user)

For many years I&#x27;m using ReadKit for Mac and couldn&#x27;t be happier. Paid once in like 2014 and the app is still getting updates plus I get to my content without third parties. Why use a web service for something that doesn&#x27;t need a backend to function?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoldreader.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoldreader.com&#x2F;</a> is still the best thing after Google Reader.

To contrast other opinions – I think it&#x27;s a valuable feedback for the company.<p>I also stopped using Feedly when realized that it has become something else than &quot;nice minimalistic rss-reader&quot;. I settled with NetNewsWire and super happy with it, really incredible piece of software. I wouldn&#x27;t mind paying some bucks per month for extra features like proxying sites-without-rss or similar stuff (I need to use third-party solutions to add some important sites to rss reader).<p>So if Feedly wants to build a business around RSS (I couldn&#x27;t find their vision on the website, so it&#x27;s a guess), then maybe they just need to listen to those who actually use RSS. I think most of us love RSS for its simplicity, for decentralized nature, for respect to our attention and non-invasiveness into our information consuming patterns. Not much of a business proposition here maybe, but business should be built on top of the real value for users, not the other way around.

Feedbin is what the author wants. It is even open source.

Reading through the article, Feedly might just have a classic, fast version without any new features and charge users for it.<p>And those who wants new fancy things can enjoy the fancy version. And I believe, there are many users who just want fast and simple software these days, and early version of feedly was a great example.

If you like simplistic, why not newsboat? I bet you it&#x27;s faster than any POS web app<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsboat.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsboat.org&#x2F;</a>

I find feedly works really great. I&#x27;m on the free tier, my UI is relatively uncluttered, they introduce new things from time to time, but mostly it&#x27;s the same as when I first started when google reader shutdown.<p>I get this author doesn&#x27;t like it, but it all seems a bit overly dramatic for a few feeds.

Same path here, google, feedly, ragequit feedly due to bloat&#x2F;jirafication, now inoreader. Up to 150 feeds supported, works awesome on ipad and web.

After going through Google Reader, Feedly, Newsblur and QuiteRSS, I&#x27;ve finally settled on Newsboat, as I can really customize it to my needs, debug it and even integrate custom html to rss generators.<p>For example, ebay has recently recently stopped supporting RSS through search results (an &#x27;_rss=1&#x27; query string was supported for over 10 years), and while there are some workaround such as using different search endpoint where the RSS has not been deprecated yet, with Newsboat, I was able to write a custom filter to extract RSS with just few lines of code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;almog&#x2F;newsboat-ebay2rss-filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;almog&#x2F;newsboat-ebay2rss-filter</a>

After several years of using Feedly, I stopped using it right when they started showing ads in the feed. My biggest complaint with their Pro offering was that it was extremely unbalanced for the personal use (it still is).<p>As a Pro user, I wanted to cut down the amount of noise I was getting in the feed. But that feature was in Pro+ subscription. I wanted to subscribe to a few Twitter searches; again a Pro+ feature. I wanted to get rid of duplicate posts and it was, you guessed it, a Pro+ feature. Meanwhile, the Pro offering was flooded with things that never mattered to me.<p>In the end, Pro was simply not a good value for me and Pro+ was just too expensive.

The main two complain:<p>&gt;I have done everything I could to turn off features that I do not need, but this is still relatively cluttered. I do not need to access Leo, Feedly’s AI engine. I do not need to UPGRADE to ‘Pro’. I do not need two separate vertical menus.<p>This makes it sounds like he &quot;did&quot; turn off many features to make it what it shows in the screenshot. But in fact he didn&#x27;t. Those were default. And when you look at &quot;Leo&quot;, and &quot;Upgrade Pro&quot;, one being a simple link the other being a top banner that disappear once you scroll down a little. Arguably speaking the only &quot;constant&quot; clutter that is there is the thin vertical menus. That is it!<p>&gt;Recently, Feedly also started showing me pop-ups in case I want to track ’emerging exploits across the Web with Feedly’s AI Engine’ and to ‘research critical vulnerabilities with the new CVE Intelligence Card’, whatever that is.<p>You know, those pop up aren&#x27;t even Ads. They are new feature notifications. Which means it rarely happens. But the author made it as if it was a daily annoyance.<p>The new generation of programmers who believes everything should be free and open source, preferably AGPL 3.0 to stop companies using GPL 2.0 loopholes, or worse licenses like MIT or BSD which are now considered as &quot;harmful&quot; because they help &quot;evil for profit making companies&quot;. All while asking for $200K as a new developers joining right out of college.

RSS is something I really want to use, but so far I&#x27;ve not been able to find a single piece of software that handles RSS that doesn&#x27;t suck. I want to add a bunch of RSS feeds, and then have the software notify me - or at least highlight - when related &quot;tags&quot; or words are used, as well as be able to see &quot;everything&quot;. But I guess RSS is about to die out anyways, as more and more news sites only allow you to read the first few lines of an article before having to visit their site.

I agree with you about useless PRO features.<p>I loved the &#x27;Mute filters&#x27; feature, but they ruined it forcing to use Leo, expressions like &quot;title:HackerNews&quot; are no longer available and LEO is less useful than a simple search by keyword<p>but... there is a &quot;but&quot;, I use Feedly APIs and I love them, I developed apps for myself to aggregate and quickly find informations starting from the feeds, using Feedly is so easy, so I continue to pay for a really small subset of features only to be able to extract info from my RSS feeds

The author complains he couldn&#x27;t add a Reddit RSS feed. I once looked into this. It was already a few years ago, but I guess it hasn&#x27;t changed. The problem is that updating all Reddit feeds of all Feedly users goes way above Reddit&#x27;s API call rate limits. So, it&#x27;s probably simply not possible in a centralized free service. The problem isn&#x27;t so much Feedly, but the various sites&#x27; (not only Reddit) ignorance or hostility towards RSS that results in these kinds of implementations.

Like the author and plenty of commenters have posted, even something as simple as an RSS feed is expensive when hosted among tens of thousands of users.<p>&gt; One of the features is that I will get “new articles up to 10x faster”. What’s that supposed to mean? That I have not been getting new articles straight away when I visit Feedly?<p>This is a perfect example of what we take for granted, multi users RSS feeds have to poll missing pub dates, they don&#x27;t just fetch the latest posts on a users request. This game where they pull the curtain and you realize how bottle necked you are as a free user, that&#x27;s the sad game of running a business on these types of services.<p>I&#x27;ve had an idea for an RSS reader for quite some time. One with a layout like HackerNews or early Reddit where all users have their own RSS feed, they can look at and follow other users feed items. there&#x27;s a main page with posts ranked by number of followers and comments on each post. then of course a personal feed.<p>But considering how much feature creep these services suffer, I don&#x27;t see how I&#x27;d be able to keep it running without some premium payment system, certainly donations can&#x27;t serve enough.

I deleted Feedly from my phone a long time ago for some reason. I can’t remember why. It wasn’t because I didn’t like it.<p>I redownloaded it a few weeks ago and it was a shit show. I looked for other alternatives and I found NetNewsWire.<p>It has a long history of first being a commercial product by an indy Mac dev. He sold it to another company, reacquired the rights, updated it and now it’s free and open source for the Mac and iOS. It’s clean and does the basics.

I moved to InoReader after the Google Reader cull and must say it’s been pretty consistent in quality. I usually pick up a good deal around Thanksgiving.

I&#x27;ve been looking for a reader the last couple days and Feedly actually seems the best option. Most RSS readers don&#x27;t allow you to save articles for later and put them in your feed. Pocket and Instapaper do this but require you to subscribe to RSS through IFTT or Zapier which I tried and seem very cumbersome. How is this not a native feature? Pocket and Instapaper allow you to subscribe to email newsletters, Feedly only offers this on their $8&#x2F;mo plan.<p>I would subscribe to Feedly except their desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions for saving a page for later are both broken! On mobile it works except ~10% of articles it says it cannot parse. Just put a link in my feed then!<p>Anyone have another option that supports RSS, save-for-later, and email?<p>Edit: Wallabag does RSS and save-for-later but not email newsletters<p>Instapaper can send articles to your Kindle which is intriguing<p>Figured out how to configure Zapier, it&#x27;s not too cumbersome, so much better than IFTT.

FreshRSS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freshrss.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freshrss.org&#x2F;</a>) is self hosted and its what I have been using for years. There are a variety of RSS web readers you can deploy to a home server or NAS or even just a raspberry pi stuck in the corner they aren&#x27;t very resource intensive as programs and the docker images make them really easy to deploy.

&gt; I started using it because of its simplicity and minimalism.<p>That is so weird to me. I tried pretty much everything there was back then (eventually settled on Newsblur only to switch to self-hosted TT-RSS after they raised prices when I already barely got any use out of their features) and Feedly always seemed like one of the most bloated&#x2F;featureful (pick your choice here :D) options there was.

I don&#x27;t have any of these issues at all? I&#x27;ve a folder called &#x27;main blogs&#x27; which is just every feed I follow. Any link I have to Feedly is a link to my &#x27;main blogs&#x27; folder which provides a pretty clean interface. I have 0 adds on my &#x27;main blogs&#x27; page currently. Perhaps a similar setup would work for others.

If you liked it before all the monetization strategies, maybe should have paid for it to keep it sustainable that way?

Cannot stay away, because I&#x27;m a guy who used Google Reader and moved all my RSS stuff 1-2 years before Google Reader was finally closed. I tried to use Feedly and other tools, but at that time I decided to use rss2email. Right now I have my own tool (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;livelace&#x2F;gosquito" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;livelace&#x2F;gosquito</a>) for data gathering from different sources. One way to use it - just put news into mail system (I&#x27;m Zimbra user - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paste.pics&#x2F;7f48e9ca655de96f2160ecbff474bbca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paste.pics&#x2F;7f48e9ca655de96f2160ecbff474bbca</a>, and I use internal search engine heavily).<p>I don&#x27;t depend on external services and can process data as I want.

I&#x27;m torn between the love of Free Stuff and the understanding that even Free Stuff costs money.

I&#x27;ve left Feedly at the first sight of premium options few years ago - I wanted to try something new and it worked for a while. But RSS reader in bookmarks (livemarks as Mozilla once called these) is and tbh always was enough for me.<p>Foxish live RSS does job nicely in Vivaldi.

I use a self-hosted yarr [1] instance for rss. It is really minimal and very easy to run (self contained native binary).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nkanaev&#x2F;yarr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nkanaev&#x2F;yarr</a>

Feedly has put a lot more effort into being a research tool, probably mostly for marketing in the past, well, years.<p>Of course it clashes with being a simple RSS reader for the author. This is just mismatched expectations, not Feedly getting worse.

Miniflux works great for me. Took a few months to get used to minimal layout, but it has everything that I need to read RSS feeds. I&#x27;m using paid hosted version, but there is an open source version which can be self-hosted.

If you&#x27;re looking for a cross-Apple-ecosystem reader, News Explorer provides MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS apps and uses iCloud to sync. No affiliation, just like using it.<p>If you&#x27;re only following feeds on MacOS, NetNewsWire is also great.

This article is music to my ears. As a Feedly user of 6+ years, it&#x27;s everything that I&#x27;ve felt and more. Thanks for putting into words the frustration that&#x27;s been building up inside me for a while.

For free solutions there are better alternatives out there not sure the benefits of using free Feedly.<p>As a Pro Feedly user since Google Reader brigade I got to agree to some sentiments about what Feedly offers for pro users, seems the Feedly team has the typical startup problem which is run by marketing people with out of dated ideas.<p>The only feature I have to give props is building your own RSS reader from any website which has worked great on many site I could not work with.<p>But for the price you pay so many features are so really niche that i dont need.

I&#x27;ve been a non-paying Feedly user since Google Reader shut down. I think their nagging is tolerable. I currently see no point in an upgrade as I don&#x27;t miss any feature.<p>I&#x27;ve also been a long-time user of Pocket. I would really like them to add feed functionality to their service. It would make it very easy to find new things to read while also having a list of things to read later. That would be a very good value proposition in my opinion, and a reason to pay them.

I use free Feedly multiple times a day, since the demise of Reader. I&#x27;m scanning the comments for another free alternative that doesn&#x27;t suck, but so far I haven&#x27;t found one.<p>The prompts for &quot;give us money&quot; are infrequent enough that they don&#x27;t bother me, much. What do you want for nothing, a rrrrrrrubber biscuit? [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE</a>

NewsBlur is pretty good and does exactly what it is intended for.

I don&#x27;t pay Feedly any money now because many years they were raising funds to buy new servers, and offered a premium service in perpetuity to anyone paying $100, which I did on the spot. It is a solid service that has grown to be a bit bigger than I&#x27;d love, but it does what it needs to. And if you don&#x27;t like the &#x27;marketing cruft&#x27; you can just block it with your adblocker of choice, not a rocket science.

IMO the lowest ad-free tier for Feedly was too expensive for what I&#x27;m doing (~6.00$&#x2F;month) which is basically agregating news from multiple websites for my own personal use, so I migrated to Inoreader and use the Supporter plan (~1.67$&#x2F;month), which is enough features for me while remaining ad-free.<p>At that price, I&#x27;m okay not having to self-host it to handle the synchronization of articles I&#x27;ve read, liked, etc.

I&#x27;ve been using Feeder on Android, and it&#x27;s been quite simple and responsive -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.nononsenseapps.feeder.play" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.nononsense...</a><p>If there are any other recommendations for apps on Android, those would be welcome too.

Feedly is not serious RSS. They don’t have the right taste for the RSS guys of right mind. Switched off after a few months years ago, then become a user for Feedbin. I recently switched to self hosted Miniflux due to their customizable full text scraper and had never been happier.

One of the most useful features of Feedly for me was that you could export full articles with highlights as PDFs. Yet to find another RSS reader that can do this - am currently using Inoreader&#x27;s highlighting features.

I have been using Reeder for years now, I use it also for read it later integrated with Pocket. I love the latest update because I get to set the fonts to San Francisco Rounded which is one of my favorite fonts.

Off topic but while all the RSS people are here - does anyone know of a client or feed that can extract articles from websites that try to stop you from using RSS? Bikepacking.com is an example of this.

You can use Feedly simply as a cloud service to store your RSS subscriptions. There&#x27;s a number of good clients that use it and display a simple feed that you want. For Android, there is FeedMe.

Huh. I use Feedly but access it through Reeder and don’t seem to have many troubles.<p>Every once in a while I think of unsubscribing to a feed and it <i>is</i> a bit of an adventure, but that is my only complaint.

Is there an easy to use self hosted solution for this?

&quot;I could go pro, but nah&quot; -- I read this and closed the tab. What a whingefest from a free tier user.<p>The Reddit crawling problem is because Reddit rate limits their crawling so they have to prioritize the most popular feeds. What&#x27;s the problem with linking your account, or making a dedicated feedly throwaway for crawling?<p>Been a pro user since the beginning because I want the service to stick around. It works just as well as it always has and I don&#x27;t mind that they&#x27;re adding new features even if they aren&#x27;t for me.<p>Sheesh.

Do you think there&#x27;s an opportunity for a new RSS reader to emerge? And be financially successful, without the BS of ads, etc?

Is it known why Google killed reader? Certainly it wasn&#x27;t lack of traction.

Have you tried lenns.io? I have a feeling it will meet your needs.

I&#x27;m just using Thunderbird for RSS feeds