Feedly

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I used to really like Feedly. Itā€™s web-based, so you can jump around to any desktop or laptop. I used an IFTTT app to save bookmarked posts to Pocket. And itā€™s got a good Android app thatā€™s easy to use and works well. But lately they seem to have been focusing more and more on the business use cases of ā€œkeep an eye on your competitors/market/employees/latest trends/whateverā€ and getting pushy over their paid tiers. And they still havenā€™t done anything about the basic use case of downloading the RSS/Atom when thereā€™s a connection so you can read them offline. There are plenty of places where cell service is sparse, slow or flaky, and plenty of situations (say, youā€™re riding a train to work) where cell data isnā€™t even possible, and they donā€™t all have wi-fi.

Iā€™ve since switched to self-hosting NextCloud News, and syncing my subscriptions and read/unread status across mobile and desktop apps like NewsFlash.

More info at Feedly.