SearchFox To Shut Down

I hope the people behind searchfox take the closure as a stepping stone for bigger and better things. Take the experience and build upon it.

Plenty of tech entrepeneurs created a half dozen failed operations before creating something that rocks. Who would have thought Apple would be revived with an AAC player?

With that said, I never liked the RSS format and syndication to subscribe to a single content provider. I prefer a categorization of news of topics that interest me. I long for the day that people can read news that reflect their personal life and stop going to bed hearing of mainstream media news outlet sensationalize violence and political rhetoric.

Now that we must find a replacement, what are some of the other online RSS readers out there that your readers have found to their liking?

Mike,

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I’m a fan of bloglines. It’s prety well supported out there. Works well on mobile if you care. But it’s far from perfect, and if they can button up the recent problems I’ll stick with it.

It must be painful to pull the plug, but much better than lingering on. Also, they are doing the right thing by announcing in advance and allowing backup/export of user data.

Also, Searchfox is a wonderful domain name, but mismatched for what they were trying to do, a RSS reader. Perhaps the founders can now use it to do a search-related startup.

SM - thank you very much. fixed.

Here is my write up. My trackback is not very reliable.

http://russell.supersized.org/.....25th..html

I have used SearchFox RSS for many months now, and think it’s the best web-based RSS reader out there. It beats the pants off of Google’s reader in terms of usability. I’m very sad to see it go!

I don’t know, does this phenomenon play a part in what is happening to SearchFox? http://www.salas.com/weblogs/archives/001008.php

As others have said above, Searchfox has been #1 for me as a web-based RSS reader. I’ve been on their beta-test and nothing signaled trouble; everything was going great. I wish we can find out more about this.

Sad to see it go, but is ironic, I JUST moved over to netvibes, and with good timing as they have shutdon. Searchfox was great but took too long to load for me and that’s why I moved. Anyone moving from Searchfox should try out netvibes.com

i have used it all through the private beta.. it was superb and i am gutted it was going.. not that there wern’t rumbels though development was very slow to glacial for the past few months

The market needs unique offerings not an offering that already exists in too many forms. I appreciate what companies like searchfox offered but all that comes to mind is “who cares?”

Well, I am at a loss. Searchfox was the only decent online RSS news aggregator I found and handled the huge number of feeds I was subscribed too. Does anybody have any ideas of a replacement?

I never like searchfox at al and am not surprised it died. It had entirely the wrong kind of interface. Bloglines is still the best of the service sites - I now run gregarius on my own machine and am much happier……

I used it intensively, and I feel bad for seeing it go. IMO, way superior to Bloglines, Newsgator and some others I tried.

I’m now looking for a replacement, but this time I’m looking for a solution based on LAMP to put it running on my machine.. It’s a pain having to switch aggregator every 6 months. :-\

Too bad… it’s the RSS reader I’ve used and referred people to for the past few months. I guess I’ll have to go back to bloglines. Ahhh well.