Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Google Reader shutting down

googleblog.blogspot.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

211–220 of 726 posts

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#211

Post by mjs »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #24
cdjk wrote: post #9

There's tt-rss [1] if you want to host it yourself. [1] http://tt-rss.org/

I'm glad I made the decision to host my own feed reader years ago. Mine's based on an old version of tt-rss, actually (I diverged from the codebase back in '05 when I felt like the author didn't really want any of my contributions). Edit: It looks like I'm also happy that I chose to host my own CalDAV server, too. Edit 2: @koenigdavidmj - Apparently I can't reply that deeply. DAViCal is the CalDAV server I'm using (…

Are they really shutting down the CalDAV interface to Google Calendar? (I'm not sure what the "API" bit means, or the "whitelisted".)

As of now, CalDAV is Google's recommended way for syncing with iOS devices http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#212

Post by pedrocr »

conesus wrote: post #34
cadr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to import your google reader list into it?

You bet! It's OAuth-based import, so when you create your account it's just a click away. Couldn't be easier. EDIT: And OPML is the other option when you signup. It's an easy import process, since it's really quite important to get that part right.

Does that import everything or just the list? It would be nice to be able to import all the content as gotten from here:

http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#213

Post by brown9-2 »

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…

I started using NewsBlur about two months ago on a whim after using Google Reader for many years, and I really dig it.

It was super simple to import my feeds from Google and I find that the navigation in NewsBlur lets me read/scroll through items (and ignore articles that aren't interesting) much faster than Google Reader.

Anyone looking for a Google Reader substitute, definitely give NewsBlur a try!

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#214

Post by sethish »

karpathy wrote: post #83

"over the years usage has declined" That's because there was almost ZERO innovation done on this product. Very few (mostly visual) improvements, and very few new features. The latest posts on Google Reader blog are from 2011 http://googlereader.blogspot.com/

It's worse than that. The google plus era redesign of all google sites ate up a massive fraction of the vertical space in Google Reader. And some social sharing features that made google reader an awesome place, were disabled in favor of sharing via google plus.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#215

Post by zanny »

sideproject wrote: post #144

whoa. big move. can we somehow petition against this? and maybe even move this off as an alternative open source, driven by community? Whack some ads on Google Reader and you might make money out of it Google... but don't remove this.

Well, I just exported my entire feed history to Akregator. It imported smoothly. I'm probably going to look into a qt 5.1 based port of it to Android if someone isn't already making it just so I can have my feeds on the go as well.

That is my biggest concern, I really like the UX of the mobile reader app for browsing blog entries.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#216

Post by wslh »

nl wrote: post #181
wslh wrote: post #126

Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, a…

Wait.. so they have a service that in your words is so good it is irreplaceable.. and taking it away makes them evil ? That's pretty strong!

Yes, their historical data can't be rebuilt. A little bit like what happened with USENET and Google buying DejaNews. Nobody has that data.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#217

Post by mehrzad »

mjs wrote: post #153
vosechu_ wrote: post #92

I'm seriously digging Feedly right now. Took 12 seconds to get into it and everything just makes sense. I wish I had found this ages ago. No need to backup your feeds, it uses your google account for now.

Seems like the Chrome App can access: * Your data on all websites * Your tabs and browsing activity I'm not very comfortable with that. It also seems very unnecessary for an RSS reader.

https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/topics/chrome_app_permiss...

This answered here.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#218

Post by josh-j »

jjsz wrote: post #202
josh-j wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.

It doesn't pass unread items though.

Another option is to get pocket for chrome which adds an icon to google reader items and thereby allowing you to save your starred items to pocket.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#219

Post by mfkp »

karpathy wrote: post #83

"over the years usage has declined" That's because there was almost ZERO innovation done on this product. Very few (mostly visual) improvements, and very few new features. The latest posts on Google Reader blog are from 2011 http://googlereader.blogspot.com/

Actually, there has been negative innovation. When google+ launched, they removed all of the sharing/social features (which I used heavily, had a large network of friends) to try to drive more users to google+.
Post reply on HN