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shared4you
Bah, the landing page forces me to login. No, I won't sign-up. I want to know what features do you offer, with some screenshots to get a feel of it.
tpetrina
Agree, I don't want to give my personal info to any site nor I wish to remember yet another un/pw combination.
dazzawazza
Agreed, I'd like to see a 'public' login with a few categories of RSS feeds which I can browse and play with (read only is fine).
crapet
Try demo/demo
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pronoiac
Login failed.

That account name is still there, so I can't recreate it.

Tyr42
Thanks, that worked.
sauce71
Unable to get write lock on 'subscribe' method for: com.commafeed.backend.services.FeedSubscriptionService

Another waste ...

mfringel
All I can tell is that you've coded up a login page.
jazzex
Since there aren't any screenshots I don't think I will use this till you fix the landing page. Does anyone have any alternatives that are 'bloat-free' Readers?
jaggs
Looks very nice. Couple of points:

1. Error on Google Reader import 2. Agreed with others it does need at least a single screenshot on the front page (or an About page as a demo). 3. It would be nice to offer a default Google Reader CSS file to add to the styling function.

But yeah, very nice attempt.

onli
demo/demo for login works. And it looks good: Just a rss-reader with a list of feeds to the left and articles on the right, good performance in the demo. jk-navigation. custom css.

I'm not exited by it being a java-application (hosting that on my own could be a hassle) and the google reader import doesn't work (invalid grant, error code 400, want the eror message?). Importing the .xml seems to have no effect at all (edit: now it does. just takes some time?).

What is the feed-polling strategy? Does it support pubsubhubbub? Will this instance stay active?

Good work though! I think i might use this.

RyanZAG
What's wrong with it being a java app? As it says on the github, create an account on openshift and its just a few easy commands to get it running. OpenJDK is nice and easy to install on most open hosting environments too.
onli
Maybe. That is just based on my experience with java stuff, it is always complicated. I agree though that the instructions seem easy enough.
vidarh
A lot of us harbour a strong hate of Java due to a decade or more of exposure to abstract factory factories, and obnoxiously slow jvm startup times, and a series of Java applications that are supposed to perform as "native" yet somehow all feel clunky, slow and bloated (Eclipse being the posterchild for all that is wrong with Java...).

I actually have a half-baked code generator to use Ruby to generate Java for some Android hobby-projects because I found that less painful and obnoxious than writing the Java directly.

deelowe
Are you referring to backend or frontend applications? Java on the backend seems to be very stable and popular. Though I don't have any experience with it personally, my understanding is that it's probably the most popular backend language for web apps in terms of deployment size and complexity.
Udo 

  com.commafeed.frontend.utils.exception.DisplayException: 400 Bad Request
  {
    "error" : "invalid_grant"
  }
	at com.commafeed.frontend.pages.GoogleImportCallbackPage.<init>(GoogleImportCallbackPage.java:94)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor187.newInstance(Unknown Source)
  ...
garrydanger
I get the same error. It looks like they need to put the import from google functionality as a background service.
susi22
I love the speed an simplicity. All I need for me to be using is to have key mapping vor "<space>, v and o". Is this going to be open sourced?

Thanks for showing

michaelmior
It is already open sourced. https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
susi22
Do you mind providing better instructions to get it going on openshift? I know nothing about this java maven thingy and the build process.
michaelmior
The instructions on the readme detail everything pretty well. You don't need to know anything about Java or Maven. See the section "Deployment on OpenShift."
gregwebs
theoldreader.com is a more faithful clone. I have been happy using it since it was announced that Reader is shutting down.
abrowne
I like it so far. I think I might prefer this to The Old Reader. Open source is a plus, too. (And thank you for oldest-first! So many forget this.)

One question: I uploaded my opml file, and ... nothing happened. It is processing or queued somewhere? (That's fine, I'd just like to know.) I then added a single feed, which worked fine.

Edit: I'd switch to this from The Old Reader (and gladly pay) if you make a mobile view.

abrowne
Looking again, it only offers to import a Google Reader XML export file, not any OPML, and I was uploading an export from The Old Reader, so it shouldn't have worked anyway.
crapet
I just fixed it in the code, it will work when I'll deploy the new version.
abrowne
Cool. I manually subscribed to all my feeds -- slow day at work, and it let me rename things -- but this will let me suggest CommaFeed to friends and family.
desbest
An unexpected error occured Unable to get write lock on 'subscribe' method for: com.commafeed.backend.services.FeedSubscriptionService Go back to the previous page or to the home page. com.commafeed.frontend.utils.exception.DisplayException: Unable to get write lock on 'subscribe' method for: com.commafeed.backend.services.FeedSubscriptionService at com.commafeed.frontend.pages.GoogleImportCallbackPage.<init>(GoogleImportCallbackPage.java:94) at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor187.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525) at org.apache.wicket.session.DefaultPageFactory.newPage(DefaultPageFactory.java:170) at org.apache.wicket.session.DefaultPageFactory.newPage(DefaultPageFactory.java:98) at org.apache.wicket.DefaultMapperContext.newPageInstance(DefaultMapperContext.java:137) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.PageProvider.resolvePageInstance(PageProvider.java:278) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.PageProvider.getPageInstance(PageProvider.java:166) at org.apache.wicket.request.handler.render.PageRenderer.getPage(PageRenderer.java:78) at org.apache.wicket.request.handler.render.WebPageRenderer.renderPage(WebPageRenderer.java:94) at org.apache.wicket.request.handler.render.WebPageRenderer.respond(WebPageRenderer.java:244) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.RenderPageRequestHandler.respond(RenderPageRequestHandler.java:165) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle$HandlerExecutor.respond(RequestCycle.java:840) at org.apache.wicket.request.RequestHandlerStack.execute(RequestHandlerStack.java:64) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.execute(RequestCycle.java:254) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequest(RequestCycle.java:211) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequestAndDetach(RequestCycle.java:282) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequestCycle(WicketFilter.java:244) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequest(WicketFilter.java:188) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doFilter(WicketFilter.java:267) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBValve.invoke(OpenEJBValve.java:45) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:936) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1004) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: javax.ejb.ConcurrentAccessTimeoutException: Unable to get write lock on 'subscribe' method for: com.commafeed.backend.services.FeedSubscriptionService at org.apache.openejb.core.singleton.SingletonContainer.aquireLock(SingletonContainer.java:303) at org.apache.openejb.core.singleton.SingletonContainer._invoke(SingletonContainer.java:222) at org.apache.openejb.core.singleton.Singleton...
nicksergeant
Certainly there's a better place to report this, no?
pronoiac
Agreed. The long lines are making this page difficult to read on my phone.
moondowner
At least, from the stacktrace, we can see that it's using Wicket, OpenEJB and it's probably running on TomEE.

EDIT: oh snap, it's an OpenSource project, so we can see what's been used in the code :) https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

grakic
Is this the current practice of building Java REST + AngularJS frontend web application? It looks like there is so much cruft code laying around.
lenazegher
These are some of the features I'd like to see in an RSS reader (I've actually considered trying to learn to program just to build a reader that has these features):

* Import a list of feeds from a simple text file. I find it strange readers don't support this. If I have a list of 50 rss feeds, I don't really want to enter them one by one. Importing from a file another reader has exported is great, but I'd like to import from a text file too.

* Filters. Per-feed and per-category. Again, perhaps naively, I imagine this would be simple to implement but I don't know of a web-based reader that does this and I usually have to resort to Yahoo Pipes or similar, which is a pretty clunky solution. Filters like: Only show entries containing "bar", or don't show entries containing "foo". Bonus points if I can edit a multi-line list of filters, so if I want to filter for 50 separate words I don't have to enter them one-by-one

* Sort-by-newest that works properly across categories. I currently use feedly and somehow in category view posts 12 hours old show up ahead of posts 3 minutes old.

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pldrnt
Newsblur can filter by tag, author and title keyword(s). I only have a few dozen feeds but the popular ones spew so much content that I honestly could not touch them until I switched to NB.
pwnna
No way to delete accounts...

No keyboard shortcuts.

Tyr42
I'd like to have the 'v' for view link, and '?' to show all shortcuts implemented, but it looks pretty good so far.
kissickas
'r' to refresh was the key I used most on Google Reader after 'j' and 'k', and I'm surprised to see that TheOldReader and CommaFeed both lack this feature.
crapet
'v' and 'r' are implemented and will be available when I deploy the new version.
webwanderings
You advertised this here few days ago with a different name, if I'm not mistaken.
crapet
I didn't, but I posted on reddit a fews days ago maybe someone posted it here then.
gnosis
I value my privacy too much to use web services that are essentially spyware.

What I'm reading or interested in is none of any company's business.

This is why I prefer to use a dedicated RSS app on my computer rather than use one on some "free" web service.

pavel_lishin
I worry that I'll have my computer off for the weekend, and miss some entries on a frequently updated feed.

I guess a good solution to address both of our problems would be to run a hosted Reader clone.

Groxx
Some screenshots from some random clicking around by somebody:

Adding a feed: http://cl.ly/image/16183s0h0t2e (clever, it auto-fills the name after a second) (not so clever, the only drop-down option is 'all', and it's not pre-selected)

Having added two feeds, I see this: http://cl.ly/image/321t1J2p461p it persists for a while, the spinner in the corner goes away, it persists... toggled 'all', 'unread', etc, no results.

Then it pulls in 5 PHD-comics: http://cl.ly/image/1Y0k01310Q04 No XKCD yet, not sure what happened to it.

And one comic, with read above, unread below: http://cl.ly/image/3N2d3i2Z0g2b

Some basic key commands I've used in Google Reader still work. The UI takes a moment to load data from the server when you change where you are, but once it finishes it's fast. Minor bugs, some holes things seem to fall through, but as a basic RSS reader it works. Maybe there's more to come?

As long as nobody messes it up for everyone else, "somebody password" is what I used if you want to try it out.

smcnally
you are a gentleman and a scholar. thank you.
gkumartvm
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Method onFormSubmitted of interface org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.IFormSubmitListener targeted at [SignInForm [Component id = signInForm]] on component [SignInForm [Component id = signInForm]] threw an exception Go back to the previous page or to the home page. org.apache.wicket.WicketRuntimeException: Method onFormSubmitted of interface org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.IFormSubmitListener targeted at [SignInForm [Component id = signInForm]] on component [SignInForm [Component id = signInForm]] threw an exception at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.internalInvoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:268) at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.invoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:216) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.invokeListener(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:240) at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.respond(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:226) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle$HandlerExecutor.respond(RequestCycle.java:840) at org.apache.wicket.request.RequestHandlerStack.execute(RequestHandlerStack.java:64) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.execute(RequestCycle.java:254) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequest(RequestCycle.java:211) at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequestAndDetach(RequestCycle.java:282) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequestCycle(WicketFilter.java:244) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequest(WicketFilter.java:188) at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doFilter(WicketFilter.java:267) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBValve.invoke(OpenEJBValve.java:45) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:936) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1004) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor311.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.internalInvoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:258) ... 28 more Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: The bean encountered a non-application exception; nested exception is: javax.ejb.EJBTransactionRolledbackException: The transaction has been marked rollback only because the bean encountered a non-application exception :java.lang.NullPointerException : null at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.BaseEjbProxyHandler.convertException(BaseEjbProxyHandler.java:363) at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.BaseEjbProxyHandler.invoke(BaseEjbProxyHandler.java:283) at com.commafeed.backend.services.UserService$LocalBeanProxy.login(com/commafeed/backend/services...

oakaz
Can I listen podcasts with it?
smcnally
I'm not seeing read items being marked as such. Is that on the roadmap?
crapet
Do you mean have all the entries opened and scrolling through marking them as read ? I never used that feature of google reader so I haven't implemented that yet. If it's something people use and want, I'll add it.
rpdillon
Perhaps off-topic, but to those that are interested in bloat-free open source Reader replacements, I've had extremely good luck with TT-RSS. It's been in development since 2005, is written in PHP, and is quite slick IMHO. I run my own instance on shared hosting (DreamHost) and it hasn't failed me yet. Open-source Android client as well (though it costs a couple of bucks in the play store.) http://tt-rss.org/
crapet
I tried it but I really didn't like the old iframe look.
Morendil
Not quite ready for prime time? Reader import fails for me too.
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