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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 lnanek2 »

Jleagle wrote: post #5

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

Why stick with dying app that will never see a new feature and which may make your data inaccessible at any time? I exported my data and will never see it again. Anything else and I might have tried to log in one day and suddenly hit the deadline. The odds of me ever entering hundreds of sites into any app of Google's again are also far lower now.

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

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Post by hamax »

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.

Maybe a great number of them are people like me who haven't actively used google reader in years but are willing to give rss readers another go after reading about them non stop for the last few days.

Just a speculation.

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Post by icelancer »

martinced wrote: post #8
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?

Is this something that all Chrome extensions ask for or only some? I tried to install AdBlock Plus in Chromium and it asked the same question...

How is AdBlock supposed to block ads on webpages in your tabs without access to them?

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

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Post by sp332 »

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.

Yeah, there are at least 24 million subscribers. Not sure how many are currently active but the number seems to have gone up in the last few years. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...

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Post by icelancer »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #19
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.

Was very excited to try Newsblur.

It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended.

Oh well. Time to move on.

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

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Post by notaddicted »

Jleagle wrote: post #5

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

Every time I use google reader now is tainted by sadness. Also it is useful to be able to compare side by side.

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

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Post by omaranto »

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.

Since I like the searching, reading and organizing experience I have in the email clients I use, I decided to give Blogtrottr a shot: it sends you the contents of your RSS feeds by email, you can decided whether to get an email for each post or a daily digest (there are optiones, too). Looks pretty good so far.

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

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Post by julius »

brown9-2 wrote: post #20
jemka wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

They let you import your google reader data.

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

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Post by mixedbit »

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.

But what cause do you join by signing up for Feedly? I understand that even people that did not use Google Reader may be upset that the company drops a service that is based on an open standard, but I can't see why such people would react by subscribing to some other RSS reader.

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

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Post by webwanderings »

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.

You are right about most user being in the searching mode. The fact is, Google Reader kept many people hooked. So none of the searching will yield any good result for many people (because they are so heavily used to of GR).

I am not getting good vibes out of Feedly even though it is getting unusually large number of mentions.

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