What is Feedly? Feedly Review

Feedly is an RSS aggregator application that supports various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS or Android. It is also a cloud-based service that aggregates user-defined news feeds from various online sources and can be shared with others.

Creation History

1. In November 2006, Edwin Khodabakchian co-founded DevHD, which aims to create a platform that uses RSS subscriptions, online storage and social media integration to connect users to interesting information. DevHD's first product was Streets, which aggregated updates from various online sources and was the basis of Feedly.

2. Feedly optimizes RSS feeds and was first released on June 15, 2008. Formerly known as Feeddo, Feedly existed as a browser plug-in before adding a mobile version.

About Feedly

Feedly is a foreign RSS subscription tool. Ordinary domestic users seldom visit and use it. Therefore, for users who visit Feedly for the first time, Feedly will automatically prompt for access to Google Reader without registering as a new member. After allowing access to Google Reader, Google Reader users will be automatically logged in to Feedly, eliminating the trouble of registration. After logging in, the user will automatically jump to the magazine-style browsing interface.

On March 14, 2013, Google announced that it would stop using Google Reader on July 1. Feedly was nominated as an excellent replacement for GR, and its servers were overwhelmed. Feedly then upgraded its servers and bandwidth. Due to the impact of Google Reader's announcement of closure, on March 15, 2013, Feedly announced that 500,000 new users had joined Feedly within 48 hours; on April 2, the total number of new users reached 3 million; and at the end of May, this number increased to 12 million.

Web browser extensions

Feedly has an extension for many browsers including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Feedly is integrated into the web browser and a clickable icon will appear, allowing users to be redirected to the Feedly page to read all the news feeds.

Feedly claims that the extension has a simple, but customizable interface and is presented in a magazine-like manner. Users can also customize Feedly's aggregated RSS feeds, add personal preferences, change the interface's layout, colors, feed categories, favorite content, and other people's comments; any article can be shared via email, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, and other services.

Function

1. Feedly supports subscriptions to websites that are not accessible abroad.

2. Feedly can match recommended subscription sources.

3. In addition to supporting online sharing, Feedly also supports word search and word translation. You can select some text to search on Google or in Feedly. The search results based on Feedly are from the subscription source, and the search results of the word in Google News will also be displayed.

4. Feedly supports multiple platforms and can be used on multiple client platforms such as iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and web version. The synchronization speed is very fast.

Android and iOS apps

Feedly mobile apps support iOS (compatible with iPhone, iPad) and Android devices. All apps run on Streets (another project of DevHD), which allows apps to use the same code on all versions. Running the same code on multiple platforms allows developers to release updates quickly because they only use one version.

Like Feedly's website, the mobile app features a minimalist interface that mimics a magazine spread. However, unlike the browser extension, the Feedly app does not load an entire article, but only presents a summary of the article and links to the actual article. The browser on the mobile app is embedded, and any redirects generated by the Feedly app will use the embedded browser instead of opening a separate internet browser. In addition, the app can recommend content based on information that the user has read or shared in the past.

Feedly's app doesn't yet support offline mode, but third-party apps offer such a service.

Development History

-Feedly was first released on June 15, 2008.

-In March 2013, due to the impact of Google Reader's announcement that it would be shut down on July 1, 2013, Feedly saw a huge increase in new users in March, April and May, and its servers were overwhelmed at one point.

- On November 8, 2013, Feedly disabled OAuth login and forced users to use Google+ authentication, but the change was rolled back on the same day. Until now, users can choose to log in with Google+ or OAuth.

- From June 11 to 13, 2014, Feedly suffered a severe denial of service attack that prevented users from accessing their information. The attacker demanded a ransom, but Feedly refused to pay.