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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by geoffw8 »

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…

Hey - thought you might be interested in knowing there are lots of people at a total loss over on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1a8ygk/official_...

Might be worth a post or two

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by dan15 »

initself wrote: post #188
kmfrk wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just Fever ( http://www.feedafever.com/ ). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.

PHP and MySQL, yuck!

PHP and MySQL aren't that bad (and support for them is pretty much guaranteed on every web host).

However, the fact that it supports PHP 4.2 and MySQL 3.23 makes me wonder how old the code base is! Makes me think it's using so many obsolete PHP methods, the deprecated MySQL extension, and is all procedural code (which almost always seems to be spaghetti code with PHP).

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Post by stracjd »

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…

And that site is down......

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Semaphor »

signed0 wrote: post #44

While I am an avid Google Reader user, I think this is good news. Their product has stagnated over the past few years, yet few competitors emerged. Hopefully this creates a void that a better service or set of services can fill.

Sadly most of the services fill a different niche. Feedly and so on are all magazines but not what I consider real RSS readers. I've read though this Thread, the Reddit threads and through some "Reader Alternatives" articles. The only things similar seem to be The Old Reader and Newsblur.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by smnl »

Seemed like this would eventually happen since Google stopped updating Reader (and its APIs) a few years ago

I've also been working on a similar news reader app called BlogRoll: http://blogrollapp.com

It can import your Google Reader feeds and has a tiled layout (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well too.

Here's a screenshot of it: http://bit.ly/Yc1P9C

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by SkyMarshal »

callil wrote: post #15

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...

Wondering this too. I'd like to import my folders and starred items to another reader. Anyone a reader that can do this?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by wildmXranat »

rdl wrote: post #330
BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I will never trust Google again. What other free hosted service provider deserves your "trust" that it will never, ever go away, and which provides facilities for exporting all your data in a nice way (a feature which will likely be accessible long into the future)? I'm just as irritated as you are, but given that they've provided notice and good backup/takeout options, I don't see a betrayal of trust anywhere.

I didn't use Google Reader because it was free, I used it because it was 1) good and 2) the back-end to essentially every other RSS-based service I used. So they're not competing with "free", they're competing with everything. I learned this lesson when I made the mistake of Google Voice (which was free for some aspects).

I concur with this sentiment. It is good enough to pay for in my point of view. Google simply made the choice of wanting to monetize on their current user group. It makes me wonder if they'll open source it so that others can self-host it.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Benferhat »

EugeneOZ wrote: post #80

Just want to repeat here my tweets: Maybe GoLang will be retired in August? AngularJS in September? GAE in October? "Backed by Google" is a joke now. I just can't trust Google anymore. Google Reader was important part of my day - source of information. Google apps are too UNSTABLE to use.

> GAE in October?

AppEngine's deprecation policy:

7.2 Deprecation Policy.

Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate that Service without these changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

# required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

# doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

[0] https://developers.google.com/appengine/terms scroll down to 7.2

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