Someone made a ping on my Unfriendly Connect For Feedly blog post. So, here is an update. I did use Feedly for another year. I do not recall there being a single thing that drove me away, but for months I was pretty frustrated and unhappy using it. To me, Feedly being THE last RSS reader signified the death of it, because I could not see many people putting up with the product. There was a doubt that maybe it was just me that kept me trying to figure out how to change myself to be OK with it. I think if I had migrated to the mobile app, and dropped using it on my computer, then I’d have been fine. There are just so many other things I do in the limited time that I use my phone it never dawns on me to use it there.
Last September was the final straw. Either I was going to either
- Abandon RSS entirely or
- Find something else.
- I migrated my feeds through an OPML export and import.
- I started subscribing to new feeds again.
- Most importantly, when people ask what reader I use, I am happy to reply with a confident “I like Inoreader.”
That last is rather than couch a vague “I want to like Feedly, but ugh. Everyone else seems to be using it.”
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