Five Best RSS Newsreaders [Hive Five]:
Google's changes to Google Reader this week upset a lot of people, and it got us wondering how many of you still use Google Reader as your preferred RSS newsreader when there are so many other options. This week, we're going to highlight some of those other news readers, in case you're looking for alternatives. More »
The good news is that the alternatives sync with Google Reader. The problem with any non-cloud reader is that they will only download feeds while they're open, and don't have history going back forever. Feeds typically only have 10-30 items, which means that if you only download a feed once a day you're liable to miss things. The sheer power of Reader is the enormous database of RSS items it has. That's not easily replaceable.
Note: Feedly at least seems to not take advantage of Reader's database (if the API even allows that). Thus if you link it to Reader, you'll only get the ten most recent items on most things. Reader still is the best game in town despite the redesign (which I agree was not an improvement at all--too much whitespace; they really need information density settings like they have in Gmail).
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