This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is The Bloglines Plumber again, written , and concerning Rants, Web

Bloglines is up and down like a yo-yo at the moment, and I'm sick of it. I'm moving to hosting my own RSS reader. Has to be web-based. Anyone got any advances on Gregarius?

Comments

Breyten

I tried Gregarius a few weeks ago, but it's not up to the task. Especially because it lacks an 'Mark All Read' button, so if you have more than one page of unread items (which is quite often, for me), you're almost forced to execute a sql statement to finish up your reading.

Dorothea

I'm using Gregarius. It's serviceable, but not feature-rich. I'm treating it like the early Firefoxen -- a harbinger of good things rather than the current all-in-all.

Treenaks

I just installed planet somewhere. No 'mark as read', but that should be easy with some javascript ;)

Chris

If you already have a GMail account, try Google's Reader. When I tried it when it was first released, it was terrinbly slow. And it still needs a lot of polishing, but I find it quite usable. Though somehow, not quite as good as bloglines in many ways.

Peter J.

You might want to look at Temboz. "It is inspired by FeedOnFeeds (web-based personal aggregator), Google News (two column layout) and TiVo (thumbs up and down)." It's been pretty reasonable, it's under active development, and the author is open to suggestions and patches.

sil

Hm. Temboz seems to run its own web server; I might have a look at hacking it so it doesn't do that. Not sure how the update stuff would work then, though.

Gary Fleming

You know, after seeing the plumber again yesterday, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Leaning towards Gregarious, though no doubt it'll need some severe hacking.

Paul

Currently very happy with Gregarious after about a month now. Works fine on angel too :)

Feel free to check out the installation of it in dellah.com/greg/

You can up the unread viewing to a 100, so the mark all read will mark 100 read at a time. The plugins look good, but again it is PHP so I can't really hack my own up. Must learn PHP, I think.

Johan Sundström

Google Reader also still has the misfeature of ups and downs, occasionally forgetting what posts you have already read, once in a while not getting access to your feed list at all, and so on.

Ade

www.google.com/ig

Its my homepage these days

sil

Ade: you have to have one box per feed you read, though, yes? I read about 200 feeds ;)

Dustin Diaz

Y!'s MyWeb2.0 works well. Google Lens is a good one too.

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