Ask HN: RSS Feed Sync (Google Reader alternatives)?

1 points by setrofim_ 13y ago ↗ HN

OK, so this is another Google Reader alternatives question. I know there have been a few discussions regarding this already. However, they all seem to focus on finding an alternative client to view the feeds. This is not what I'm looking for. I'm quite happy with Liferea (and more recently Canto) on Linux and FeedDeamon on Windows. What I find the invaluable about Google Reader the ability to keep my various clients in sync (and particularly the read status of entries, as that's not something one can replicate by shoving an OPML file into Dropbox-- which is my current plan at the moment).

Does anyone know of an alternative (ideally, free) service that would let me do that?

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[dead] rssident 13y ago ↗

I have never understood the value in keeping track of what feed entries I have read. I follow way too many feeds for that to be useful information.

But I also never liked the layout of most rss readers that organize each feed into a folder and lay everything out like an email client. That UX doesn't work well for me.

That's why I built my own reader: http://rssident.com

It's not the most user friendly yet but it works in a way that makes rss useful for me.