Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?
Also, why does it need to be a Chrome extension? What happened to non-extension web sites?
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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
#32Add 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.
I instantly uninstalled it after I saw that as well. Shame, I liked feedly the most out of the alternatives.
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#33Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.
I am sticking with it because there is a rush on every other service. At the same time I am also looking. If you are on Firefox (I'm not as of yet) than the closest you can come to GR experience is installing the Brief add-on. However, your feeds would be on local storage though you'd be using a browser interface.
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I instantly uninstalled it after I saw that as well. Shame, I liked feedly the most out of the alternatives.
You can turn that button off in preferences, it's really easy.
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#35If this many Reader users converted in so short of time, then it is amazing that Google could't find a way to monetize the service or at least keep it revenue-neutral, or even have it be a useful loss-leader
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Magic? Some of these complaints are idiotic.
"Why does my RSS reader need access to the webpage to add the RSS feed for that webpage?"
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What's wrong with paying for a service that you find useful?
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#38Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.
I wouldn't wait until it closes, but I am more than happy to wait until others run around testing out these other services, and we see what comes out of that.
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#39Don'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.
One good reason is that the RSS reader landscape is going to change drastically in the coming months as other developers jump to fill the hole left by Reader. The app you end up using may not even exist yet. Sure, the cost of switching is low, but it still seems like a waste of time to start searching now when so much will change in the next 3 months.
Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
#40I 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.
It's interesting to see how different people's opinions can be. Feedly, for me, was a headache wrapped in CSS. The whole thing actually made me ridiculously angry (yes, really, and I'm normally a veeery calm guy)... so for me the search continues. I'm glad it's not quite as difficult for other people to find a suitable replacement. :)