I would happily use a Digg/News.me RSS Reader and I think they could pull it off, however for me to take it seriously it must include this:
Settings -> Export FeedsDigg 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
#52Can 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.
In my case, I have mainly used it as a podcast listener. There has never been a really good podcast-dedicated site that suited me well. But Reader does. I can play a podcast in place, easily see visually when new ones were available, easily import new feeds if I couldn't find it via Reader, etc. I'm sad this is going away. Seems very arbitrary and unnecessary.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#53Can 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.
Exactly, the web UI was mediocre at best, and went downhill the more they tied it to G+. But as a RSS syncing platform it was/is great.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried using any of them? Say what you will about Google Reader, but at least it didn't crash (most of the standalone apps) or require some sort of strange interpretive dance with your fingers to browse your articles and mark them as read (feedly). There's definitely space here.
Right, but those apps nevertheless have a footprint and (hopefully) a codebase to improve upon. At this point in time Digg has none of that -- just a once-well-known brand and a new redesign that's failed to capture back the audience/community lost to Reddit and others. This looks more like a hail mary than a solid business decision.
The team currently behind Digg does have experience in this space, though: they previously developed News.me, a Flipboard-alike, shuttered when they decided to put all their resources into Digg.
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#55If you are talking about it instead of already announcing it - isn't it technically too late?
Why would that be?
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#56I 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 doesn't have an API, and as a result, the defacto standard would be Feedly. We now have a similar singular pipeline problem.
The Digg engineers have a lot more experience working at scale than the one person behind NewsBlur, and can probably whip out a suitable competitor and an API to boot faster than NewsBlur can.
That, and everybody loves competition.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#57If you are talking about it instead of already announcing it - isn't it technically too late?
Not at all. That's just the BS "first to market" mentality to get startup employers to work overtime.
If Evernote or Dropbox just appeared today, to give an example, people would still flock to them.
Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#58I 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 doesn't have an API, and as a result, the defacto standard would be Feedly. We now have a similar singular pipeline problem. The Digg engineers have a lot more experience working at scale than the one person behind NewsBlur, and can probably whip out a suitable competitor and an API to boot faster than NewsBlur can. That, and everybody loves competition.
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#59Re: Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
#60The Old Reader is okay for now, but it's slow.