I am currently leaning towards theoldreader.com, which is a direct copy of google reader pre-google+.
It also is having HUGE growing pains, and has a 10s of thousands of opml import backlogs for first-in users. but after adding my feeds by hand (all 270 of them), it is working fine. (I am also still using feedly, and newsblur, but they are too visual and too slow at letting me jet by the chaff looking for the good stuff) On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > To add insult to injury, they sent me a welcome for an account I don't > have. That's a poorly placed email trigger. <sigh> > > http://screencast.com/t/Ywm7FqgmX0Mo > > > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > True - BUT - add those people to a FREE waiting list... don't tunnel them > > into a paid version only... I almost pulled the trigger, and I might > > later in the week based on Gel's feedback. It looks like it is the most > > similar to what Reader was. > > > > And yes, good point. Be prepared! > > > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > UGH ... now that is poor. You can't even test it out to see if you > like > >> it. > >> > > >> > "Due to overwhelming demand, free accounts are temporarily suspended. > >> > By going premium you get full access to NewsBlur. " > >> > >> > >> That's a real shame that they ween't prepared for this, but seriously, > >> who's prepared for a 10X spike overnight? > >> > >> There's a lesson here though... Not just Google Reader, but other > >> products > >> have seen quick outflows of users for various reasons. Competitors would > >> be > >> wise to keep a plan on the back burner in the event that a company > shuts a > >> service down or suddenly screws up monumentally (I'm looking at you > >> Instagram/Flickr). > >> > >> -Cameron > >> > >> -- > >> Cameron Childress > >> -- > >> p: 678.637.5072 > >> im: cameroncf > >> facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | > >> twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | > >> google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> > >> > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362049 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
