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Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
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Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#42Can somebody explain the appeal of Google Reader and why people are making such a big deal of it shutting down? I've tried it a few times, and I just don't see the appeal.
RSS readers are a dime a dozen, and Google Reader is mediocre, at best. The interface isn't great, it's tied to a Google+/GMail account, and there's no way to subscribe to RSS feeds on an internal network.
I feel like I must be missing something.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#43I have one question I want to propose to the gluttony of companies rushing to replace Google Reader. If it was such a valuable product, why would Google shut it down? I think we are getting too emotional in how we are viewing this market just because a lot of us used Reader. If Google thought there was money to be made with a great RSS reader, they wouldn't have left Reader abandoned for years. If there is a market i…
Some of the alternatives available to Reader also have one additional feature built in - Discovery. These companies might look at acquiring Reader users and giving them a taste of discovery, while satisfying the feed reading use case. Discovery then leads to potential monetization avenues. Google could have moved Reader users to Google Currents [1], but I'm not sure why they chose to shut down the product the way the…
I expect that Currents won't live very long. I don't see what value it adds in that space with competitors such as Pulse, Zite, Flipboard and a lot of others. Is anyone actually using Currents? If so, is it any good?
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#44I think this is a bad decision as the market has moved to other things. And others such as Feedly or NewsBlur already serve this niche well. For the record I haven't used Google Reader for years (and I have over 500 feeds in it as I used it a lot at some point). Why? Because I find my news elsewhere (on Hacker News, Twitter, Google Plus, /r/python, reddit/r/programming etc.) - - And not to say the awesome mobile serv…
I don't know if Flipboard can work for me since I have no way to try it, but none of the others come even close to what an RSS reader lets me do. It's good that you've found something that works for your needs, but RSS and RSS readers fill a large niche that has no equivalent tool. I would love it if Digg could better integrate what Reader did with what all the others try to do. Feedly and NewsBlur fall short in a long list of ways.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#45Can somebody explain the appeal of Google Reader and why people are making such a big deal of it shutting down? I've tried it a few times, and I just don't see the appeal. RSS readers are a dime a dozen, and Google Reader is mediocre, at best. The interface isn't great, it's tied to a Google+/GMail account, and there's no way to subscribe to RSS feeds on an internal network. I feel like I must be missing something.
It destroyed the competition as it was growing, and became the backbone of multiple services. Imagine you have all your documents on Dropbox, in multiple applications, and then Dropbox shuts down. Dropbox is already a part of your workflow, but now you have to find an alternative for the apps you use.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#46That's great, gals and guys. Let us know how it turns out when you're finished.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#47Can somebody explain the appeal of Google Reader and why people are making such a big deal of it shutting down? I've tried it a few times, and I just don't see the appeal. RSS readers are a dime a dozen, and Google Reader is mediocre, at best. The interface isn't great, it's tied to a Google+/GMail account, and there's no way to subscribe to RSS feeds on an internal network. I feel like I must be missing something.
I guess it is the service (unofficial api) it provided (syncing bt. multiple devices) as opposed to the website itself.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#48I think this is a bad decision as the market has moved to other things. And others such as Feedly or NewsBlur already serve this niche well. For the record I haven't used Google Reader for years (and I have over 500 feeds in it as I used it a lot at some point). Why? Because I find my news elsewhere (on Hacker News, Twitter, Google Plus, /r/python, reddit/r/programming etc.) - - And not to say the awesome mobile serv…
NewsBlur has been unusably slow since the Reader shutdown notice, so I disagree that the niche is being served already, it's anyone's ball game at this point.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#49This is interesting since Digg was an instrumental piece in the disruption of Google Reader.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#50Makes sense. The system for the "new Digg" seems to be heavily based on getting as much signal as possible about the popularity of particular news items among certain groups of users. Why wouldn't they want another signal source, especially given the "news junkie" tendencies of the population most likely to embrace such a service?