"Cutting out the RSS middleman"
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
Way back when Google Reader went the way of all Google products (RIP), I ended up switching to Feedly, a web-based RSS service that had good integration with third-party clients.
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That seemed silly to me: I only subscribe to thirty-some feeds, probably about half of which are actually updated regularly, and I’d prefer for the control over when I get my items delivered to be in my own hands, not that of a middleman.
I went through a very similar path to Moren, and ended in a similar place: with my feeds being updated directly from the source, and synced to my various devices in iCloud. I'm fine with it, since I'm all-in on Apple devices, although I see how not everyone can do this. I used Feedbin as a syncing service for quite a while, and was happy with it for a cross-platform solution, but this feels better, and eliminates a subscription fee (albeit a small one, for a well-run service).
For reading, I'm using NetNewsWire and it's great. It's a real, honest-to-goodness Mac app—a "Mac-assed Mac app", even—which is great, as that's where I do the majority of my reading. But it's also a truly native iOS and iPadOS app as well. And if you use a keyboard on the iPad (and I presume the iPhone), it has the same keyboard shortcuts as it does on the Mac. I really don't understand why more apps don't do that (I'm looking particularly at you, Spark).
Cutting out the RSS middleman
Way back when Google Reader went the way of all Google products (RIP), I ended up switching to Feedly, a web-based RSS service that had good integration with third-party clients. But this past week...