[DannyDover]

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?

[feedly]

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.

[rcsorensen]

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.

[stephen_mcd]

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/

[greglindahl]

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.