I don’t understand the service Feedly is providing. As best I can figure, it’s taken my feedreader links and rearranged them into some kind of magazine-like layout on a web page, but I’m not sure why I need that. The other thing it did was mess with the categories in my Google Reader which, admittedly, I approved, but still — it bothers me. I don’t like it, and now I either have to leave it as it is or take the time to go back and put things back the way there were. (I should have planned ahead and backed up my settings.)
Feedly is a slower, less efficient way for me to get my daily feeds. Not a good thing when I’m trying to consume as much as possible over breakfast before I have to make way to the office an hour away. If I wanted slow, inefficent delivey of my news and whatnots, I’d pick up a newspaper.
I’ll give Feedly a few more days, but if I can’t find some value in it then I’ll be forced to remove its addon from my Firefox. We’ll see.
Feedly Says What? was first posted to justinll.com on September 22, 2008.
Hi Justin,
Sorry to hear that things are not working out with feedly.
Regarding “messing up your google reader”, there is a simple solution to that. Go to http://www.feedly.com/feedly#goodbye and click on undo and feedly will automatically roll back all the changes.
Regarding value, people seem to like a combination of a more fun/magazine like UI, the recommendations and the integration with twitter, friendfeed and Google Search. That said, it comes at the cost of some productivity so if all you are looking for is reading as many articles as soon as possible, feedly might not be a good fit.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
-Edwin
@Edwin,
I agree, there is a fun/familiar feel to Feedly that I’m sure many people enjoy. And you’re right, Feedly is not a bad service, it just doesn’t fit my style of consuming articles. So other folks should check it out for themselves.
I realize it’s not easy to create a new product. I wish you the best of luck with Feedly and future projects.