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Then you'll be excited to see the upcoming redesign that I have yet to publicly launch (but want a few users on to test the waters early): https://beta.newsblur.com
Are you going to make the new design accessible so I can use it?
All these years later, I still use the Google Reader frontend (with newsblur as the backend). It turns out that Reader's UI assets were stand alone enough that you could just implement the backend API and it all would work. I saw this originally in a project for viewing your Reader Takeout data[1], and just built on that idea to make my own personal Google Reader experience. [1]: https://github.com/mihaip/readerisdea…
Actually, that project still has the nostalgia Reader interface online: http://readerisdead.com/reader/view/#overview-page
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Are you going to make the new design accessible so I can use it?
Accessible how? It should be no more or less accessible than the main website. Feel free to reach me at samuel@newsblur.com
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In retrospect Reader's death marked a turning point in how Google was perceived. There were grumblings before that but Google was still the darling of the web. As you say, Google+ was consuming Google at that time. So when they killed Reader it was not just killing a beloved service. It also acted like a lightning rod for the discontent that had started to swell. A lot of people would never again view Google through…
Though very disappointed, it is not surprising in retrospect. Google doesn't want to make a niche application for a handful (relatively) of nerds. They want to make unduplicatable AI/big-data services for billion+ users. Anyone can make a feed reader. No one else has been able to create a search engine, translation service, or email service (spam filtering, auto-complete) nearly as good.
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And it's not just the web. It's everything. Every company in our capitalist utopia just keeps growing and growing. Microsoft is the perfect example. They've bought companies from the start, and never stopped. I still hate that they were allowed to buy GitHub. They will eventually make it supplant their stupid MSDN "devops" thing in their offerings. But if not Microsoft, it just would have been Oracle or Amazon or som…
Not that many people who use Linux are clamoring for it, but it's interesting that GitHub does not provide an official desktop app for Linux -- even though it's a frickin Electron all. And that's totally GitHub's doing. Meanwhile, at the parent company, Microsoft offets VS Code for Linux. And it's nice.
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Twitter still supports the chronological timeline. It's no Google Reader, but I refuse to submit to The Algorithm.
Yes, and how often are you having to switch it back? I've read several stories that Twitter will flip it back for you every couple of weeks.
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
If you like Tweetdeck you should try it with the browser extension Better Tweetdeck.
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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.
Isn't Pinterest basically what you describe?
It might be nice if there were a way to filter by number of comments.