O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

Google might be backpedalling on Google+, but we'll never see Google Reader again. It's like admitting you were wrong. Way too hard for some people.

https://digg.com/reader does the job for me. It's probably even better than Google Reader was.

Why lamenting about one specific product, even demanding from the specific company to make exactly the same again? One company isn't the "internet." The comments here (by janvdberg and xaduha) show there are alternatives.

Losing the Google reader was a big deal for me, and I managed to write a Chrome extension that re-used most of Google Reader's UI and hijacked browser's XHR to redirect requests to browser background page.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local-rss-reader/c...

The code is not pretty, if I wrote this extension today, the code would be much more readable and robust.

It worked out okay, but I moved to tiny-tiny RSS a few years ago, so this little project of mine is mostly abandoned.

With all the alternatives we have these days, I don't see any reason to mourn a product its parent company obviously didn't want to support any longer. It was my impression back then that countless other services continued right where Google Reader left off the day it was shut down.

Personally, I migrated to Feedbin. Importing my subscriptions and replacing the accounts in my feed reader of choice (Reeder) didn't require more than a few minutes of my time.