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Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by tvwonline »

ihuman wrote: post #4
tvwonline wrote: post #2

3rd party apps are still working, I wonder how long until they are cut off?

Reeder has been cut off (or at least for me). It just had in update that adds feedly and feed wrangler.

Yep, it's gone now. The reeder update was just in the nick of time. I wonder if someone at google was waiting for it to update ;-)

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by nakedrobot2 »

pingbear wrote: post #10
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #7

Sad, sad. I love seeing all the stealth replacements pop up in the last week or so. Still, it is a sad day for RSS in general. Google, this will not help me use G+. Sad.

If they'd integrated it into G+ I would have been less hesitant to use it.

They arguably did do a half-ass integration with G+, removing other sharing options and removing the nascent social network that lived inside Reader.

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Post by elithrar »

tvwonline wrote: post #11
ihuman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reeder has been cut off (or at least for me). It just had in update that adds feedly and feed wrangler.

Yep, it's gone now. The reeder update was just in the nick of time. I wonder if someone at google was waiting for it to update ;-)

Note that Reeder (on iOS) had Feedbin and Feedburner support prior to this update.

Re: Google Reader is dead

#16

Post by squidi »

shurcooL wrote: post #9

I didn't want to accept this would happen. So it's kinda hard to believe it actually did. Oh well, more free time.

I've not enjoyed using any of the new readers so far, so will be spending my "free" time going though my Pocket and Kindle backlogs (The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches is insiprational).

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by egeozcan »

steve19 wrote: post #8

Right up till the 11th hour I held out hope that Google would give Reader a last minute stay of execution. A sad day indeed.

Exactly my feelings. I actually kept the tab open to see if their API kept working but the feeds stopped loading and I hit F5. Oh, the horror...

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by mtowle »

BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alternative."
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