[Discuss] Feedspot and other RSS Readers

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:24 AM Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> Bill Bogstad:
> > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:53 AM Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > What do you use to aggregate the things you read? I've stumbled upon
> > > Feedspot, which costs $$, and I'm wondering if it is necesssary.
> >
> > I've never seen the point in using an external web site as an RSS feed
> > aggregator.
>
> There are two particularly useful bits.
>
> 1. It operates with a daemon that collects feeds around the clock,
> so everything is at your fingertips immediately.

Perhaps I subscribe to too many feeds, but I never run out of things
that I could read.
I leave Firefox open on my desktop all the time and the extension is
currently set to scan
every 30 minutes.  That's plenty fast enough for me.  Your
requirements might be different.

> 2. It's consistent when you access it through different clients (at home,
> on your phone, at work...) so you don't find yourself re-reading articles.

The previous extension that I used for Firefox (SAGE) kept things in
bookmarks which
could be synced using Mozilla's bookmark syncing mechanism.  This
sufficed to prevent me
from re-reading stuff.  Even with my current setup, which doesn't
sync, I can usually remember
what I've read in the past 24 hours sufficiently well that the subject
line/teaser text is enough
so  I don't end up rereading stuff.  I don't even use the same client
on my phone that I do on my
desktop and I still manage to avoid rereading stuff almost all the time.

Bill Bogstad