Thanks but I don't want an APP. I use 14+ different browsers a day. I touch other machines as well. Any machine I'm on, even if it's not mine, I want to access my feeds. I have ZERO interest in an app. Thank you.

if a web application does not count as an "app" for you, then I have good news: Feedly has a web application. A good one. http://www.feedly.com

I wish there was a bare-bones version.. I'm using the android app right now and had several moments where I just paused not knowing what to do.. it's a very "swipe-happy" UI. I guess I'll get used to it eventually.

It's a nice reader really, but i don't want to have to install an extension just because.

I want a google reader replacement but this requires me to install something instead of just working.

Install something that literally does nothing relevant to Google Reader functionality. With the Chrome extension installed, the feedly.com/home web page works and I can read all my feeds. When I remove the extension, the site stops working.

If you're looking for an alternative to skim headlines please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a try (what a great name ha). We're a startup releasing another version soon to help you keep up at a glance.

I want a light weight feed reader with very few distractions. Upon visiting your page I see that you use webgl on your homepage and it appears that you only allow logins through facebook?

Interesting.

But PBSALTPH.

Product blogs should always link to product homes.

Apparently the blog is the product home page. www.feedly.com redirects to the blog. Why would I click to install a firefox extension without ever seeing what it looks like and or what features it provides?

EDIT:

Mozilla Addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/

Not disputing your point, but they do link to their products (e.g. iOS app store link) in the body of the post.

I have no idea what that acronym is. Please de-obfuscate.

It's the third line.

> Product blogs should always link to product homes

Ah, too many letters and too little coffee on my part. Thanks.

Import my tags and folders and you're good.

The RSS feed isn't the problem - it's the hundreds of hours I've put into curating content.

Search for: google reader api site:stackoverflow.com

http://feedly.com is the product home

The first thing I did before reading the post was look for a link to home, but was enraged when I found none. Still can't believe why sites do this.

not to be confused with http://www.feedly.com/ which does not work :)

:) It works for me, but it seems to be really slow right now.

I've just been trying to use feedly, but it's leaving a lot to be desired.

I don't want to have to search in order to add a site. I have the URL in my clipboard, I want to just add it to a particular group. The organise function (which on my vertical screen requires hover and if I click instead it closes it) seems to be designed around assuming that you don't have many groups or feeds in your groups. For example, I was trying to add a particular feed url to a particular group. It wouldn't let me because it was already in another group, but I couldn't see which group it was in (and why shouldn't I have a feed in more than one group?).

Also, what's with the huge featured thing? I don't care about what's 'featured', what I want is a timeline of full articles from my groups, without extra nonsense up at the top and without having to move between sites. I don't care about the feed it's from, what I care about is new content. I moved to reader from bloglines precisely because reader would let me have that and bloglines wouldn't, if feedly won't either then I simply can't use it.

What I find especially odd is that they have built their API-compatible replacement for a Google property on another Google property.

Although App Engine is unlikely to see a shutdown in the way Reader has/will be, they're still at the whims of a company whose primary business isn't a development/app platform.

You can't put out blanket statements like that. Google is a huge company with many different divisions. You may as well just impose a ban on Google on not even use Google search. It's like saying "Don't use AWS because Amazon is a commerce site".

Also App Engine is a paid for product. When you decide to charge for a product things become 'real' because you can't just shut down a product people good money for and rely on for business. Of course in theory anything could be shut down but the likelihood greatly decreases once you start charging users.

Smooth transition of my information. However, I find using it a bit atrocious in terms of trying to figure out what all those little custom icons mean. Sadly, I don't see myself getting used to it any time soon.

Tried it in the past on android but was facing some issues with Greek text, tested it again now and the problem persists.

Pardon the skepticism, but:

a) No clear revenue model

b) Built on the (thus far, still supported) Google App engine

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...

Brilliant timing with this blog post - that should be the biggest take-way from this to the HN crowd.

All I want is an equivalent "Next unread item" bookmarklet, anyone know of a service that has that?

Does "transition" just mean the feeds will be copied? What about old content? Starred content?

feels really slow, is it because of the traffic surge?

I guess it is. The name Normandy is hilarious.

A lot of google reader replacements seem to be overwhelmed today.

feedly is loading forever.

Windows Phone application please