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		rplnt on March 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a yea... What do you expect from a native desktop app as opposed to web app? I think most of it could be done via extension(s) over existing web reader. Notifications, offline mode, what else is there?

hengheng on March 14, 2014 [–]

Responsiveness. Newsblur takes about five seconds to respond sometimes, and can't buffer any feeds for offline use.

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