Who will replace Google Reader? CommaFeed

We continue our series of notes about the services that can save passengers suffering a ship disaster google Reader. Today, we turn to the interesting specimen called CommaFeed, which is one of the few open source in this category (code is available on the Github). You can not only use it as a normal web app, but, if you wish, install it on your server by running thus your own personal reading RSS service.

Appearance CommaFeed like... guess what?

Correctly! This is yet another clone of Google Reader, only in profile. Generally, developers rss-book readers were in a pretty bad situation: they can not be original strongly with one hand, as users of GR such liberties simply do not understand, but on the other - to make another tracing the popular service is somehow shameful. So we have to look for the fine line between originality and the usual standard.

To export records from the Google Reader service requests permission to access the data of your account and then neatly brings all of your feeds. There is also the possibility of exporting subscriptions as OPML-file. To display the news, there are several standard options: all the news, only unread headlines or detailed text of the articles. You can mark all news as read only or items older than one day, a week or two weeks.

service settings are present, but no more. Unlike discussed recently InoReaderWhich has dozens of options, here we can only give it three or four ticks, no more. But in setting appearance with possibility to use your own CSS, what is meant in this case gives users the perfect CommaFeed interface configuration perspective.

When watching the news, you can add it to your favorites, keep unread, sent by e-mail, there is integration with social networks and deferred services and Pocket Reader Instapaper. EReader supports hotkeys and extensions for Firefox and Chrome browsers.

In general, in the form that it has today, CommaFeed is unlikely to be interested in the average user. But, thanks to a free distribution model, this service may involve the community of programmers, who in the future will bring it to mind. In addition, the ability to deploy on their server will appeal to those users who have appropriate knowledge and want to create on its basis a personal friendly Google Reader (detailed guidance can be found here).

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