DISQUS

Edwin Khodabakchian · 1 year ago

Mathew: thank you for the post. If you ever run into a problem and need tech support or need to report a bug we listen at http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly and on twitter at @feedly

mathewi · 1 year ago

Thanks, Edwin. I will definitely keep that in mind. Great app.

Nico · 1 year ago

Mathew, thanks for this! Have been using Google Reader for years. Just installed feedly, and it looks really cool.

Luca · 1 year ago

Matthew, this extension rocks. Thanks, I'm addicted already!

Scott · 1 year ago

Thanks for the post, gonna have to try that sucker out.

markmckay · 1 year ago

I checked it out, and while its pretty, I don't really find that it is an effective way for me to read my feeds. Google Reader might not be as beautiful, but I like that I can see them all in a list and have the ability expand/collapse and star/share them all in one page.

I guess my reading habits are more geared to consuming tons of headlines then reading individual articles.

mathewi · 1 year ago

That's a fair point, Mark. It definitely slows things down a bit, and if you really want to just cruise through a pile of feeds quickly then Google Reader's interface is pretty good for that -- which is why I still go back there from time to time when I'm in a hurry. But if I have some time, I prefer Feedly's interface. I guess it's like a magazine vs. a newswire.

markmckay · 1 year ago

Totally.

dccrowley · 1 year ago

I have found feedly to really up my read intake. Google reader really is too plain. But then so is nearly everything from Google. I mean Apple is clean and simple but not plain.

Bill Dunphy · 1 year ago

Hey Matthew,
I'm a big fan of Feedly as well and it took a bit before I finally realized what I like about it - serendipity.
If you have (and I KNOW you have) more feeds than you can reasonably expect to read in any one day or week, even the fabulous efficiency of Google Reader's keystroke commands aren't enough to let you get through it all.
Feedly does a couple of interesting things here.
It treats that vast pool of posts from your feed as a rich source of valuable content (which it is if you've been choosing wisely) and serves up a personal magazine with an amazingly low signal to noise ratio. (Damn, do I have that backwards?) If your pool is deep enough serendipty results, I think.
And lastly having Feedly results appear in my Google search is brilliant.

mathewi · 1 year ago

Those are both good points, Bill -- and I totally agree. Serendipity is a good word, and I like the Feedly results in Google search as well.