The Good:
- Easy to import my blogs into the system
- It's browser based, which means I don't need to download anything to use it
- The items don't get marked as read until I actually click on a button to mark it as read.
- Animated GIFs are not animated unless I go to the actual post
- Can't resort items so the oldest posts appear first
- If I read a blog in a different reader, which I often do since I use Newsify App, it doesn't register those posts as having been read
- The browser tab doesn't tell me when unread posts are pulled in. This is a minor thing, but I usually have a tab with GR open along with a zillion others and I like to be able to just glance at it to see if anything new has come in.
The Good:
- Easy to import my blogs into the system
- Animated GIFs are animated within it
- Scrolling past items marks them as read
- Easy to re-sort posts
- The browser tab doesn't tell me when unread posts are pulled in.
- If there is a post made up of images, they're formatted right to left. Which is neat and all but since I don't read that way, it's very annoying
- You have to download a browser extension. I regularly use 3 different computers, which means I need to download on all of them (and 4 dif browsers in total). This is annoying and means that if I'm away from any of these computers I can't use Feedly
I'm not too worried about the mobile app for either of this systems, if only because I currently use Newsify and like that better than the Reader mobile app.
I also read a couple things about Google buying Wavii and that possibly being a GR replacement, except it looks like the focus isn't going to be something I care too much about. I'm generally distrustful of natural language processing stuff ever since a vendor told me their system was better at determining sentiment than real humans, at which point I laughed, mumbled something about a robot uprising, and then added sarcastic notes to my presentation. Cos I'm a mature adult. ANYWAY, Wavii's focus seems to be automated curation which is nifty and all but not really what I'm looking for.
So for now I'm continuing to rely on Google Reader while I sporadically play with Bloglovin' and Feedly, end up disappointed in both and just whine WHY MUST GOOGLE DESTROY THE THINGS I LOVE? (See "mature adult" comment above.) Do I like Google Reader so much because it's what I'm used to? Yes, most definitely. Does that mean I'll accept its demise with quiet dignity and just learn to use a different reader? Not a chance.