As a big fan of the Feedly RSS feed reader, I am quite glad to announce that the Feedly Pro community is now 50,000 strong. Or to put it in other words, more than 50,000 people decided to pay to access the extra functionality that Feely Pro has to offer.

The money from all these Feedly Pro customers goes towards making Feedly even better than it already is.

As a matter of fact, the Feedly team explained that the money from the 50,000 Pro customers will go towards these short term projects:

• Feedly Cloud – even though the number of users increases, the Feedly Cloud needs to be fast and reliable.
• Feedly for Android – a new version of Feedly for Android that is consistent with the Material Design visual language.
• Collection Sharing – a new iteration that responds to the feedback provided by the Feedly community; open the collection sharing feature to more curators.
• Content Creators – a new feature that will help content creators get discovered; a new feature that will help bloggers catch and retain readers.
• Search & More – improve search, let the users save searches, let the users define alerts, and more.

Feedly is available as a web app and as a mobile app for iOS, Android, and Kindle.

Feedly is available as a Free and as a Pro version. As expected, the Pro version comes with some handy extra features: power search so you can search within your feeds, speed boost so new stories are fetched 4x faster, back up your feeds to Dropbox, save to Evernote, OneNote, or Pocket, and more. Learn more about Feedly Pro or upgrade to Feedly Pro by following this link.

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