Even though Google Reader is dead you can still migrate to alternative services, like Feedreader Online: http://feedreader.com/online/ Just use OPML files to import your feeds and categories.
Google Reader is dead
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Re: Google Reader is dead
#92In future, G+ also dead like this....... RIP for GReader.....
My hopes are on Google Groups, which is just absymal. Hopefully it's next ...
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#93I have no gmail account, no Youtube account, and no Google Reader...Google's always been a little too big for me to want to trust more than I have to, so I've gotten by without accounts on their services... And that means I get to feel smugly superior to everyone else in this discussion.
You can, at least about Gmail. Especially since there is no way to export your Gmail data using Google Takeout.
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#94"... we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience." Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...
Yes, keeping a webservice running takes time. Especially one that's being hit millions of times a day.
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#95Fuck google.
Seriously. Really? Couldn't keep it running?
Bastards.
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#96Quick poll:
Where do you stand on this?
-> Focus (1...10) Keeping the product
I´m a bit conflicted.. on one hand they lost user confidence by discontinuing Reader, on the other I completely get the approach to focus on a few things and really do them well.
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#97I have no gmail account, no Youtube account, and no Google Reader...Google's always been a little too big for me to want to trust more than I have to, so I've gotten by without accounts on their services... And that means I get to feel smugly superior to everyone else in this discussion.
You can, at least about Gmail. Especially since there is no way to export your Gmail data using Google Takeout.
That's what GMVault is for.
Re: Google Reader is dead
#98I have no gmail account, no Youtube account, and no Google Reader...Google's always been a little too big for me to want to trust more than I have to, so I've gotten by without accounts on their services... And that means I get to feel smugly superior to everyone else in this discussion.
The RSS area was pretty damns sparse outside of Reader. Were you just not using one?
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#99"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
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#100"... we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience." Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...
I'm pretty sick of this argument. Google is a company, they are not compelled to continue to support a product which is (presumably) not making money, or even if the resources they devote to it could be making more money elsewhere. Honestly I think Google went above and beyond by giving advance notice, having an API which allows feed exporting and allowing subscriptions to continue to be exported after they close it…
Understanding the position you are explaining doesn't make the shutdown of Google reader any less regrettable or irritating.
It's my impression that it's a little bit cliché and borderline to trolling: every time a "free" product is shutdown and people complain or discuss about it there is a good free-market capitalist soul coming with condescending comments about how people shouldn't expect anything when given something for "free".
We know it. It's still pissing users off. Deal with it.