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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by phasevar »

I depend on Google Reader for keeping up with Hacker News. I'm going to be in a world of hurt now. I use iReadG on the iPhone to browse headings and then star the Hacker News posts I want to read later when I get back to the computer.

iReadG has been great because it will download all the rss feed data and allow me to browser it and star items without an Internet connection which is great for those times on the road when there is no signal. I have no idea what I'll be able to use to replicate this functionality now that Google Reader is going down.

Very very sad.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by conesus »

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning.

http://www.newsblur.com

I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was launched last Summer and I expect NewsBlur to be around for quite a while.

It's also fully open-source, in case you decide to build your own private community: http://github.com/samuelclay.

I also have a full-scale re-design in the works, but if you can't get to the main site you can try using the beta site: http://dev.newsblur.com

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by _delirium »

Weird decision. Judging by my logs, and those of several other sites I know about, it still has quite significant usage, though I don't know what their threshold is. For example, my own blog has 12x as many Google Reader subscribers as NewsBlur subscribers. Perhaps even with significant usage, that usage wasn't monetizable, and the what-people-read data wasn't valuable enough to keep it operating?

Good news for the competition, anyway: Google Reader being pretty good yet completely free and not (obviously) monetized occupied a lot of that space, which is now freed up.

edit: In fact, I see NewsBlur is completely unresponsive now, presumably due to sudden interest.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#15

Post by callil »

Still he best way to read content on the web, really sad to see it go.

Adding on to this:

What he hell do I do with my starred items now, it's literally the best collection of content I have curated in my life and I reference it all the time.

edit: petition to keep it open http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-don-t-kill-goo...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#16

Post by ececconi »

Say it ain't so. I use this everyday at work on my text only internet browser.

This is the first internet product shutdown I've ever been affected by.

Maybe I don't need to spend so much time reading up on random news. Who knows, it might be good for me.

But I will miss you.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by klausa »

conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

Does NewsBlur have something that resembles Reader's full-screen view? If not, is that anywhere on your roadmap?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#18

Post by Matsta »

Why are they shutting it down? I mean heaps of people must still use it. I bet a shit load of people use for Google Alerts as well, lots of businesses.

Far if it costed too much, i bet people would be happy to fork out $10 a year for it?

I've been using it daily for the past 4 years, to be honest nothing comes that close to it, and most likely the majority of people who use RSS readers use Google Reader.

Also now most of the iOS/Android apps are fucked now since they all use Google Reader.

Tldr; Google are dongies.

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