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Indispensable, though not infallible
I’ve been using feedly as my RSS aggregator for years since Google killed their own web-based Reader. It’s a fantastic service but I do have one minor quibble with it. For whatever reason, when I open certain articles it only has a stub, so I’ll have to click through the headline to see the full thing. Fine. Whatever. I understand that’s how certain webpages run their feeds, presumably to get more eyes on ads, clicks, etc. The problem is that once Feedly is displaying the full page, it doesn’t seem to always have enough memory dedicated to displaying all that content and the article will reload while I’m partway through reading it, forcing me to scroll back down and hope it doesn’t happen again, or just open it in Safari.Show lessBrian M.
Super weird bug happening
I have grown accustomed to seeing this message that says something like, “JavaScript is not supported in this browser.” If I really wanted to know what was in that blank space on the screen, I open in Safari or something and there it is. I dug deep into phone and app settings and found no suggestions online that fixed it. They “browser” problem is really just specific to Feedly.
Lately, some content is now showing up where it used to be blank, which would be an improvement—only now a finger swipe over that part of the page is being translated into a finger tap. A long 10-second freeze later, a random site opens up where the image of a purse or whatever can be purchased. Only I never tapped the image. Ugh. Been experimenting to make sure it wasn’t just my “technique.” Nope, it’s not me. And to make matters worse, Feedly then freezes entirely after that. I can’t open the next item in my feed unless I close and open the app entirely. It’s so weird and ridiculous. And I’m still seeing the “JavaScript not supported” message pretty often, so that problem is still there as well. Why can’t all this silliness be fixed once and for all?Show lessGreenvino
I Guess I Just Don’t See The Point
When I heard about Feedly, I thought I would be great. But after using it, I just don’t see the point. Seriously, if the devs can contact me and explain why this is any better than simply visiting the websites individually, please do so! I guess I was under the impression that I would be able to truly customize exactly what appears in my feed. Here’s an example, I like video games, so I selected Kotaku as a feed source. But I wasn’t able to get any more granular than that. I wanted to have Kotaku content, but only for subjects that interested me. For example, I wanted Kotaku content for God of War, but I didn’t want any Kotaku content for Fortnite. The app doesn’t do that, instead I just get everything from Kotaku always. The same as if I was just visiting the website without Feedly. So, what’s the point? What’s the advantage? [Shrugs] I just don’t get it. If I could filter keywords or tags, etc to truly customize my feed, that would be great, but as it stands I see no value in this app.Show lessRattleheadxyz
Developer Response
Hello, thank you for your feedback. You're right, to achieve this inside a particular RSS feed - Kotaku - you either have to mute what you don't like via Mute Filters or perform a keyword alert on the specific feed if it is supported in Google News. We're building Saved Searches right now to allow you to filter in what you're interested in.Annoying flashing issue when scrolling
[Update] I found followed the instructions from developer support, it fixed it briefly but just after a few more sessions the flashing began again. Very frustrating.
This used to be my favorite app until an annoying bug started showing up a few versions ago. I thought it would be horrible enough that new versions would fix it... No luck. As you scroll up from the list or card views, it does a double flash which is super annoying. Lately it's been doing it even when I click on the settings gear icon. Most annoyingly there's no in app support to submit a bug report.Show lessWhyzhou
Articles delete after a month
Wish I knew this when I got the app, but unread articles are deleted from your feed and marked as “read” if you leave them for a month.
Sometimes I don’t have the time to read everything as it comes out, so I use RSS readers as an archive to check back on later. Making the articles delete/“read” after a month makes it effectively useless for this. How will I know where I stopped reading if everything is marked as read? I’m very disappointed to say the least.
This app could be 5 stars if it didn’t do that. But for now, I’ll be looking for alternatives.
(Update to developer response: I know they aren’t truly deleted, but marking them as read removes them from my feed, which is effectively the same as deleting, since I still miss them. Is anyone asking for this feature? How hard is it to keep unread stuff marked as unread?)Show lessElzarth
Good, but one frustrating change
I used Feedly through the browser on my computer... But one recent change to the app makes it much less useful for me: the ability to turn sideways and get a "landscape" view was useful when reading small text and for enlarging small images.. the only workaround is to open the page in a browser (generally Chrome, because Safari seems to have the same issue now too) and when returning to Feedly the place in my feed is now lost. This is intensely frustrating and slows down my ability to use this tool to go through my feeds on my phone. I'm starting to avoid it, in fact, and it's reduced functionality is making me question whether I'm going to keep it on my phone.. on my tablet it's not as big an issue and the browser page is still great. Wish the app we're better...Show lessKuanyin888
Would be 5 stars...
...if it had landscape mode back. I have an iPhone X and was quite sad when I discovered it went away. I’d happily have black bars back if it came with a landscape option, and I think most people would agree.
The whole purpose behind the iPhone X “horns” is maximizing screen space, which makes it pretty silly to then be forced into a portrait orientation that dramatically shrinks the display of graphics and embedded video. Really, really hoping it comes back...
I otherwise LOVE this app, it has single handedly won me over to RSS and has all but completely replaced safari for the 90% of the time I spend news browsing. It’s so good that I’m coping with the extra load time to switch to safari for longer articles, in hopes it will be fixed sooner than later.Show lessSyk007
Pretty much the best, with a couple areas that could be improved
I live feedly. I’ve been using since google reader shut down and I’ve never looked back. However, I think a couple of additions could make a big difference. First, it would be great if it supported smart invert colors. On my iPhone X, I use the triple click accessibility shortcut to switch to a dark mode at night but it also inverts the images. Otherwise, a way to quickly switch to feedly’s built in dark mode would be handy. Double tapping or tap holding the top bar would be great.
A second thing would be to load content of articles that make you tap the link to the site to read the whole thing.Show lesstherealkris
It works, it's fast, customisable....
... Personally, I do own a couple of the popular RSS readers and while the two more popular ones are awesome and work very well, I find this is a hell of a lot easier, faster and not cluttered with a bunch of over the top features I doubt very few use. This is is not to badmouth the other apps ( like Mr Reader is beautiful and beyond functional) but just to say if all you plan on doing is scanning and reading your feeds, flicking them over to Pocket and sharing in a variety of different ways, then this app does all of that and looks great as well. Love the new deep Black theme :)Show lessClurichaun
Best I’ve found, but still a few flaws
Another update. iPhone X support please. Let’s do this.
Update again. Hate that you can't default download the whole article into the app, just down to the break or whatever for certain sites. Please fix!
I use this app like crazy. Needed something that worked on my phone, iPad, and PC. Thanks. What kills me though is that I tap to read an article and just get the first paragraph, can we have a setting to get more? So I have to tap on the heading to get the whole thing. Fine. Now when I'm done reading I either have to scroll all the way down to swipe up to close, and some blogs have all the comments down there, or I have to click the back arrow then the x. I wish I could just close the article right there somehow. The double tap thing doesn't work. The back arrow also is laggy.Show lessJabroni8
