While I share the lament, I happily pay for https://www.inoreader.com/ which innovated beyond what Google would have been willing to do. Highly recommended.
RIP Google Reader
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#22A very sad day when this was killed. It was my favorite social/intellectual experience at the time. Really never recovered from it.
The Web hasn't recovered from it, either. In retrospect, they obviously did it to pave way for AMP. Now that AMP is gone, maybe there's a small chance they could bring it back.
I'm guessing it's not coming back - it competes with google news which makes Google money where reader did not.
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#23For me, when I see old screenshots like this, it makes me realize how festooned with garbage UIs used to be. Just sooo much unnecessary shit. Everywhere.
I also don't love the state we're in today, when useful things are hidden or just removed altogether. But man, I can appreciate how we got here.
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#24Let us also remember Inbox, haven’t been able to manage day through my calendar, tasks and email in one place as seamlessly since that one was sunset.
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#25Welcome to killedbygoogle.com
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#26I really do miss google reader from time to time ... I think I've stopped consuming RSS since it went away
Yeah, folk will say "but use xyzRSS" and just not understand how well curated Google Reader was. It was immense for content.
Is there anything integrating rss + the fediverse in the same way for curation?
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#27I was first dissapointed when they close. Then I started using Feedly. It turns out quite well: I they are as powerfull, but I have one less entangelment with google ecosystem.
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#28I didn't use Google Reader much, what did it do for you that made it memorable? Or perhaps, what are other Readers failing to deliver?
For me, it wasn't so much Google Reader itself, it was a free feed sync source. So I could subscribe to a feed in Google Reader, then use a 3rd party app (like Reeder or any number of others) to view the feeds I was subscribed to, and it would provide all the tracking and syncing so to speak. It fills the gap of services like Feedbin, Feedly, and others. Except it was "free" and now I have to pay $50/yr for Feedbin.…
Feedly has a free tier that's more than sufficient for such light use.
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#29I recently started to consume content via RSS again.
It turns out, most of the blogs I care about have a working RSS feed.
I'm using newsblur (no affiliation) and it's working quite well, I no longer need to poll the websites, or wait for posts to appear here or on Twitter.
The nicest side effect is that checking newsblur before HN/Twitter limited my mindless scrolling, although this comment proves it didn't eliminate it.
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#30Whatever was said at the time, I’m convinced Google Reader was collateral damage from the Bay of Pigs Google Plus effort. It had social features (which I honestly never used) and anything social had to be G+. Still, I honestly don’t understand why this is the hill people want to die on, what they feel most betrayed about. Like I haven’t seen some people this upset since Firefly was canceled.
Because Google Reader was the social network for people who don't like talking about themselves but about things on the web that they find interesting, and nothing since has ever come close to it.