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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 Samuel_Michon »

icebraining wrote: post #88
ialja wrote: post #77

So, nobody was using Google Reader anyway, declining numbers and so on, eh?

It's a question of scale. When a company has services with more than 400 million users, a stagnant half a million is not that great.

I suspect the number of active GR users is closer to 50 million, seeing as 24 million people are subscribed to the CNN feed alone.

(I'm subscribed to hundreds of feeds, but CNN isn't one of them. I also think most users outside of the US won't be subscribed to the CNN feed.)

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/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 Kylekramer »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #121
icebraining wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a question of scale. When a company has services with more than 400 million users, a stagnant half a million is not that great.

I suspect the number of active GR users is closer to 50 million, seeing as 24 million people are subscribed to the CNN feed alone. (I'm subscribed to hundreds of feeds, but CNN isn't one of them. I also think most users outside of the US won't be subscribed to the CNN feed.) http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...

If it was anywhere near 50 million active users, Google Reader would not have been shut down. Even if it was 25 million actives it would still be kicking. Plain and simple. Subscribing to CNN seems like the behavior of beginner RSS readers who abandon the concept. Seems like a good idea, but a general, high volume feed with more noise than signal for the average person doesn't really make sense for Google Reader user. I'd be shocked if the number of those actively reading the CNN feed was anywhere above 5 million.

For comparison, CNN on Twitter only has 7.7 million followers. Do you honestly believe 3x more people are reading CNN's RSS feed than their Twitter feed?

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

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Post by mintplant »

rdl wrote: post #105

Feedly seems to be doing the best out of the alternatives for performance in light of the deluge of Reader refugees (Newsblur, WTF?) -- but it is still very "sparse" in layout. I haven't figured out a way to get a simple listing of articles per feed like Reader does, which means it won't work for me. I want something even more dense than Reader, or at least no worse. TheOldReader is close, but I would prefer somethin…

See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-use... (linked from the post)

Tip #1: "A more condensed view"

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

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Post by julianz »

Kylekramer wrote: post #124
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the number of active GR users is closer to 50 million, seeing as 24 million people are subscribed to the CNN feed alone. (I'm subscribed to hundreds of feeds, but CNN isn't one of them. I also think most users outside of the US won't be subscribed to the CNN feed.) http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...

If it was anywhere near 50 million active users, Google Reader would not have been shut down. Even if it was 25 million actives it would still be kicking. Plain and simple. Subscribing to CNN seems like the behavior of beginner RSS readers who abandon the concept. Seems like a good idea, but a general, high volume feed with more noise than signal for the average person doesn't really make sense for Google Reader user…

Yep. RSS is a better way to read news. If I subscribe to an RSS feed then I get to pick through the whole thing at the point where I feel like reading it. Twitter just blasts past so fast it's gone in minutes, I miss maybe 90% of my Twitter stream (conservative estimate, it's probably more). I realise you can go and look at an individual Twitter feed but it takes several clicks to see the whole thing and it's not as fast as RSS.

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

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Post by colbyh »

smsm42 wrote: post #115
saljam wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.

I tried that too. Currently there are 10000+ users in front of me in import queue. I hope they will be able to process it till July...

In the last two days only 500 people in front of me have left the queue. Feedly definitely gets point for their speed, but as others have stated the layout just isn't for me.
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