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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mindcrime »

F^&@ D^&@ IT! ^%&( ()&@& @&!^$&!!!!!

Of ALL the things they would shut-down, they have to kill Reader!?? Nooooooooooooo!! Aaargggghhhh....

Oh well, guess it's back to RSSOwl[1]. Maybe this will even motivate me to get involved in hacking on RSSOwl a bit and help those guys out.

This will probably also serve as the impetus for me to start adding some Reader like features to Neddick[2]. That was always sort of in the back of my mind, so why not go ahead and jump on it?

[1]: http://rssowl.org/

[2]: https://github.com/Fogbeam/Neddick

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mxfh »

orionlogic wrote: post #209

I have thousands of websites inside Google Reader which serves me as a personal sub-internet. With archive and quick search within feeds was so much valuable for me. It was the only service of Google that i use second only to Gmail. I think they made a quick short headed cost analysis in this, that archive and search functionality needs server power. Actual userbase does not provide enough money juice to balance. Now…

Exactly that.

My worst fear: Just couldn't find any service yet that provides this search capability in your very private hand-selected little back-catalog of the internet back to 2007 and earlier. Including sites that are no longer available in the wild. Nobody else will be able to provide that without access to the Google Reader Servers.

Hope this current uproar gets enough traction to find a solution to save this searchable and indexed archive of the internet/blogosphere somewhere accessible for everyone.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by MichaelMoser70 »

actually it is still available until June 1st. sad it will be gone. I think gmail will be next to go - I think the last gmail redesign made the product less usable on purpose; they must be paying a lot for storage cost on abandoned accounts, old emails etc; nowadays they get more transient user info from other sources ...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by aheilbut »

icebraining wrote: post #252
zanny wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The beauty of this aspect of google reader though is that they have archived every feed that anyone has read in the past 5+ years, and there's actually an API to retrieve that data as RSS/Atom.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by onan_barbarian »

Udo wrote: post #270
onan_barbarian wrote: post #40

Pretty irritated at the way Google takes moderately successful services that can't possibly cost them all that much to keep running and puts them down the memory hole, to foster the happy illusion that everything that everything that Google does turns to gold. I'm sure there's more engagement with Reader than Plus, with its millions of users who don't really use it (many of whom aren't even really aware that they are…

Google is one of those companies that make me feel like a wuss for being their customer. Okay, in this case one could (convincingly) argue that advertisers are the real customers of Google Reader, but I would have gladly just paid for the service. Apple is another such company for me, and I dumped considerable amounts of money into them, and they similarly just let me know with every single action that I'm not their…

Agreed on most points. And to be honest, if you're a real customer of Google (we use them for our business) you are treated worse than the "free service" (where you aren't the customer, you're the product). Our work accounts have a fraction of the functionality of our free accounts and the idea that this is somehow doing us a favor ("we only give you the very most stable of our services") is rather unconvincing.

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Post by unsane1 »

SpoonMeiser wrote: post #111
vacipr wrote: post #4

What the fuck. Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/ Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png

theoldreader.com looks like a good alternative

theoldreader seems to have died on my feed import to the best I can tell, anyone seen anything similar? It says it is still working in the background, but no update past the first 3 it imported...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mih »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #6

Okay. So I need a replacement website that also has an Android app. And preferably a desktop app (or syncs with FeedDemon). Any suggestions?

Second that. Feedemon has been my default client for years. Totally upset with Google's doing here.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by ClintonWu »

recuter wrote: post #152
niggler wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" now would be a great time to start building it." Now is too late. The right time to have started building it was 2-6 months ago. Now is the time to market an existing solution. Citing the great gretzky quote, the "puck" is already here.

The way I see it you have until their next spring cleaning to figure out what they'll axe and make/market it. A couple of months is neither here nor there. I mean-- err, yes, totally too late! Don't worry about it.

We've been working on something at Skim.Me (http://skim.me) for almost two years now as a replacement for Reader and/or iGoogle. We're still figuring it out but would love anyone looking for a replacement to signup for the next release.
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