Google Reader shutting down • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#51

Post by mindprince » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

I would gladly pay for Google Reader. It is my most visited website. This is so sad.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#52

Post by flingbob » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

I've been working on a replacement for a year now. It's open to the public. Get it while it's hot

http://1kpl.us/

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#53

Post by whitehat2k9 » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

I'm a huge fan of Netvibes - been using it for several years now. It has a single feed based view like most other RSS readers, but in my opinion the newspaper view is where it shines. I can quickly skim several dozen feeds with the scroll of a mouse - it's great if you're the kind of person who likes to take in a lot of info at once.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#54

Post by eridius » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

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've been trying to remember what NewsBlur was called for the past 25 minutes. Thanks for posting this!

That said, I lament the lack of a desktop app. I've been using Reeder for OS X, and I'd really like to have some sort of desktop app instead of relying on my iPhone or a website. Have you considered talking to existing app makers (e.g. Reeder) to see if they might want to switch over to using your service as their backend?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#55

Post by krcz » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

Is there a RSS reader which incorporates some ML learning algorithms to determine which articles I'd probably like, basing on what others (ones having similar taste) click? That was only thing that would make me abandon Google Reader if it weren't closing anyway.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#56

Post by presty » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

what the fuck google? seriously, I'm really pissed with this.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#57

Post by zerovox » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

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…

Good news for you then!

I used to use GR every day, then on a whim I switched the free newsblur version. To be perfectly honest, it doesn't offer me a lot more than GR did, but after hitting the 60 feed limit a couple of times I've now gone paid and I'm happy to support a service that does exactly what I want it to do. It would have been nice if it imported by saved(or linked or started or whatever they were called in the end) stories from GR though.

One peeve though, I have no idea how to manage my feeds. Is there any easy way to move them round through drag-and-drop? It appears I have to move them manually one by one, but I have a lot of feeds and I'd rather not do that!

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#58

Post by beryllium » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

I use NetNewsWire (an iOS app) every day, and it interfaces with Google Reader very nicely. Very sad that Google has made this decision - I will have to look into the alternatives. Hopefully they are even better! :)

Edit/Update: I'm probably part of the problem. I never click ads - maybe they just had too many freeloaders like me? :) Weirdly, I also never block ads. I just don't click them.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#59

Post by taeric » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

I hate saying this, as it sounds like I'm just bitter, but this really could be enough to finally leverage me off of google. Reader is by far my most used app of theirs. Plus is garbage in comparison.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

#60

Post by jakemcgraw » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 11:33 PM UTC

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…

spin up more servers brother!