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This is a reoccurring trend with Feedly (taking advantage of content creators while making money off of their content)

Unlike most RSS readers, Feedly refuses to share how many readers a content creator has via their user-agent (the standard method for doing this). When I asked them about this, they simply said to wait for analytics in 2014. https://twitter.com/feedly/status/408797947053101058

Are you going to make me pay for that too Feedly?

I really like their product but can't stand their policies. Why piss off the very same people who are feeding your product?



If you do a search for your feed you will see the number of readers.

Right now the API is limited to developers building user facing apps. Offering a long term API to other kinds of developers is not a commitment we are ready to make.

The analytics we mentioned in that tweet will be free.


You have yet to open up an API to all your users, with some hidden approval process cloaked behind a google doc form.

One of the reasons I signed up for Feedly coming out of GR was the promise of an API available, a promise that still hasn't been fulfilled.


Have a look at kouio, the app itself uses the public rest API, so it's been available since day one:

https://kouio.com/api-docs/


What's the issue with using the same user-agent method that's a standard with other feed-readers? Seems like you're doing extra work so that blog authors can also do extra work.




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