Ask HN: How do you read RSS feeds?

by Herring on 2/10/2009, 5:01 PM with 8 comments

What RSS reader do you use? What features do you like, or want from it? How many feeds are you subscribed to? How do you read them: Skim all posts? Read everything? etc

  • by sak84 on 2/10/2009, 5:26 PM

    Google Reader. I try to keep my feeds clean, skimming over headlines and marking content I do not want to read as read. Then, I actually read the rest of the posts.

  • by planck on 2/11/2009, 1:30 AM

    Feed Sidebar in Firefox, subscribed to about 150 feeds.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4869

  • by r11t on 2/10/2009, 9:33 PM

    I use Google Reader to keep track of approximately 300 feeds. These days I mostly only read everything during the weekends. This way I avoid procrastinating during weekdays.

  • by pclark on 2/10/2009, 5:04 PM

    I use google reader, I subscribe to around 200 feeds. I keep trying to cull them -- but I just miss those few blogs.

    I'd say about 5% of the feeds I get interest me.

  • by arnorhs on 2/10/2009, 5:04 PM

    www.google.com/reader

    I subscribe to anything interesting and then unsubscribe from everything that has too many posts and/or proves to be too boring :)

  • by aj on 2/11/2009, 4:12 AM

    bloglines beta. I quite like the navigation and the feed handling behavior.

    However, I wish they would give more customization and the feed aggregator break less often.

    However, of late, it is become more and more sucky and I plan to move away from it sometime soon

  • by yan on 2/10/2009, 5:04 PM

    I use Google Reader. I skim the headlines and read what I find interesting in full.

  • by mitchm on 2/10/2009, 6:10 PM

    call me old fashioned, but I still use my browser to view RSS. I skim the headlines as a live bookmark and go to the actual post if interested.

  • by shergill on 2/10/2009, 5:05 PM

    I use netnewswire on the iphone..