I’ve been a heavy user of RSS for years now. Â I’ve tried and used everything from custom built applications and scripts, to browser add-ons, to third-party services. Â Even this very blog’s archives are full migration and review articles form one tool to another. Â Here are a few links, if you are interested:
- October 2004:Â Signed up with BlogLines
- November 2005:Â Google Reader vs. Bloglines
- July 2006:Â Returned to Bloglines
- October 2006:Â Good bye, Bloglines. Hello, Google Reader
- September 2010:Â The end of Bloglines
- August 2012: BazQux Reader – RSS reader that supports comments
- June 2013:Â Goodbye Google Reader
- July 2013: Aggregating feeds isn’t all that simple
- March 2013:Â Google Reader alternative quest
- March 2014:Â Moving the RSS to Feedly
- July 2014:Â A year without Google Reader
For the last 3 years, I’ve been using Feedly, which I like a lot.  I’ve been thinking about going Pro for about a year now.  Last week, I made the switch.  Here’s why:
- I do love the service and want to support it! Â After all, I’m spending at least an hour every day going through my feeds. Â Sometimes even more.
- The Pro version removes the limit on the number of feeds and items in each feed. Â Not that I don’t have enough to read, but I don’t like the idea that I might be missing something.
- The Pro version provides integrations and easier sharing to a variety of third-party services. Â The one that is most important for me is WordPress integration.
- Their blog post about the upcoming changes to feed organization was the last drop – I WANT THAT!
Feedly constantly improves the user experience and brings new features. Â It works very stable – I think only remember one or two downtimes in the last three years. Â Their web interface is very handy and the mobile app works well too. Â They have plenty of browser add-ons to make things even easier.
All in all, it’s well worth $5 per month for me.