I am afraid of what I am going to do with all this spare time I will regain once this is gone.
This was the home page of "My" internet.
Google Reader shutting down
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's an archival RSS feed?
Greader will preserve its own history of a feed, including deleted items and feeds that go down, given someone on the Internet was accessing it, Google caches it. It means when a website is taken offline, if you are subscribed to, say, a content RSS feed through them, you can still browse the history and content. I just switched to Akregator, which will locally cache feeds (and you can configure it to do so permanant…
Oh, well, I've name-dropped it a few times already, but TTRSS stories every item in its database. I've used it to run some numbers on them.
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#253People have said repeatedly that RSS is dead, and that's apparently true, but I've been wondering for a few years now what has replaced it? It's not like social networks provide the same kind of service, really. So is getting updates from people and projects you care about really such a niche thing? Have I missed some other huge channel that supersedes RSS? Or are we about to actually lose something profound here? Ku…
I feel exactly the same way: what the hell is replacing RSS feeds? I hate keeping up with "live" feeds like twitter.
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#254That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. Sad to see it go. What do you guys recommend for replacement? I know about NewsBlur [1], but I never liked it that much. I think I'm just looking for something that would emulate Reader's full-screen view as close as possible. [1] http://newsblur.com edit: Here's what I consider an absolute must-have in RSS app: - complete navigation with keyboard (j/k pr…
For a news aggregator that adapts to your interests, try niflet.com. I'll add any decent feeds people want.
No localization, I'm not too interested in USA news.
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#255I use Reader's "star" functionality to keep track of stuff that I want to refer back to later. And, AFAICT, you can't easily export your star history. You can export your subscriptions, but not the stars. The only approach that I've seen to exporting stars is to use the fact that Reader will create a feed of just your starred items. Then you can view that feed in some other reader and manually mark each one there (ug…
Stars are, in fact, exportable. The "Google Takeout" zip archive for Reader includes a file called starred.json, containing a list of your starred items in a JSON format that, as far as I know, nothing else reads. If whatever reader you switch to can import marked items, you can probably work up a script to convert Google's format to whatever the new reader uses.
Thanks! The last time I checked was when they turned my google-account-with-an-apps-domain-email-address into an actual google apps account, and I had to move my Reader data.
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#256Netvibes is another alternative (it has a widget and reader view).
Thanks! Was trying to remember this one.
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#258Former Reader PM here, no longer at Google. Having fought many times to keep Reader alive, it's worth considering whether a large enough outcry would lead them to reconsider. White House Petition!
Within the limits of confidentiality and business ethics, can you explain what the issues are in a situation like this? I agree with other readers above that Reader is probably a poor source of ad clicks and thus direct revenue, but it seems like it would offer invaluable forward intelligence for Google (just as searches for 'influenza' and 'flu' have proved to be excellent leading epidemiological indicators). ISTM that the value proposition for Google was in mining the behavior of Reader users to identify what would be interesting/ popular/ important a week or a month from now, and would help to optimize the value of keyword searches etc in adwords.
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#259For those looking for a desktop app, the Opera browser has a nice integrated RSS reader and is cross-platform.
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#260That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. Sad to see it go. What do you guys recommend for replacement? I know about NewsBlur [1], but I never liked it that much. I think I'm just looking for something that would emulate Reader's full-screen view as close as possible. [1] http://newsblur.com edit: Here's what I consider an absolute must-have in RSS app: - complete navigation with keyboard (j/k pr…
I just Fever ( http://www.feedafever.com/ ). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
Agreed. I moved to Fever ages ago, never looked back. Works great on my iPhone too.
Combined with Instapaper, I have feel like I have achieved the perfect reading workflow.