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More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by hamax »

pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

I'm not associated with feedly or their user but I'm guessing they need those permissions for getting the rss feed url from the web page and for detecting the current active tab. Probably to display an appropriate icon.

It does sound scary but it's really hard to do anything without those permissions.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by itafroma »

Jleagle wrote: post #5

Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.

If you rely on Google Reader for your daily workflow, figuring out which service or application is a suitable alternative after Reader closes is too late. Unless you're hoping for a 180 from Google, which there's no evidence to support right now, waiting just cuts the amount of time you can use to test the alternatives while still having access to Google Reader as a fallback.

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Post by Ramp_ »

pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Indeed, it is to do with the granularity of the Chrome extension permissions.

More info & discussion can be found at the item posted a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381944

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by markyc »

Jleagle wrote: post #5

Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.

because i don't need this in the back of my mind

my feed reader needs to be as invisible to me as possible, i just want to read the content

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by TillE »

nsns wrote: post #10

I believe most users are currently in a "searching" phase, and have joined more than one alternative, so this sudden growth might be misleadding. That said, for now, Feedly is my favorite alternative, so good luck.

"Misleading" in the sense that only a fraction of those may become loyal Feedly users, sure.

But it seems like a pretty good estimate of the number of active and aggrieved Google Reader users out there.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by pan69 »

OGinparadise wrote: post #4
pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Yeah, right. I'm an idiot? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt... :)

But that doesn't apply to you, right?

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by jemka »

mixedbit wrote: post #15

If 500k users switched in 48h, 3 months before the shut down, how many users the Reader actually has? It seems it must be a lot.

Do you think all of the 500k were actual Google Reader users? It's possible a portion are jumping on the hivemind's bandwagon. Not discrediting the cause, just saying that some people like to join causes for the sake of joining causes.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Also it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this.

Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by brown9-2 »

jemka wrote: post #18
mixedbit wrote: post #15

If 500k users switched in 48h, 3 months before the shut down, how many users the Reader actually has? It seems it must be a lot.

Do you think all of the 500k were actual Google Reader users? It's possible a portion are jumping on the hivemind's bandwagon. Not discrediting the cause, just saying that some people like to join causes for the sake of joining causes.

Exactly - how do they know which product their users were using before signing up for Feedly?
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