Google Reader shutting down • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by camillomiller » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:06 AM UTC

pflats wrote: post #286

klausa wrote: post #2

That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by. Sad to see it go. What do you guys recommend for replacement? I know about NewsBlur [1], but I never liked it that much. I think I'm just looking for something that would emulate Reader's full-screen view as close as possible. [1] http://newsblur.com edit: Here's what I consider an absolute must-have in RSS app: - complete navigation with keyboard (j/k pr…

http://netnewswireapp.com is wonderful for the Mac users out there that aren't tied to an HTML solution. Pretty sure you can sync with your Google Reader account and then delete it from the app, and it'll remember your subscriptions. Just deleted mine and it works fine.

Netnewswire is great but now they should provide a new way to sync feeds and especially read/unread counts, flagged and unflagged items, and favorites instead of relying on GReader.

If someone wants a pitch here: don't go for a reader, go for a simple WebDAV like system to keep feeds in sync cross-app with APIs so simple that every dev would include it in its feed reading app!

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by brador » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:06 AM 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…

http://skimfeed.com - I don't like to share this out anymore because the server usually dies. But it's awesome.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by fakeer » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:15 AM UTC

mehrzad wrote: post #217

mjs wrote: post #153

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Seems like the Chrome App can access: * Your data on all websites * Your tabs and browsing activity I'm not very comfortable with that. It also seems very unnecessary for an RSS reader.

https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/topics/chrome_app_permiss... This answered here.

It doesn't give an answer that is acceptable. That's no way an explanation. That's an excuse.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by olefoo » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:17 AM UTC

May I say, Aaeaarrghhhhhhhhh! This was ( I speak in the past tense, even though death does not happen until July 1st ) one of the few reliable guideposts about the internet.

Google reader,of the RSS readers, you were the best, reliable, unencumbered by partisanship, unflavored by ideology. You were the best. Too bad, I must say goodbye, too bad I must go to newsbeuter or some other webreader, too bad you must die.

Truly I hate google, I hate what Google has become, I love the web, I love what the web was supposed to be. I love RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS and I will mourn you when you are gone.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by n2j3 » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:17 AM UTC

let me be the first to say http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by camus » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:18 AM UTC

Google might drop anything now, groups , appengine, whatever , You just cant trust their Saas anymore.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by clarkdave » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:20 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #426

schrodinger wrote: post #404

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Even their landing page is down right now. Would help with that!

AFAIK, Cloudflare does not cache HTML files, full stop.

I believe it does - I use Cloudflare with my blog and every file, including *.html files, appears to be served by them.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by genwin » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:22 AM UTC

fakeer wrote: post #457

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…

Looks like it's not able to handle the load. Will check in some time. Nice app btw. The only good thing from GR closure might be that the dev community comes up with some real great alternatives. And yes, I hope paid ones.

For an alternative check out niflet.com. It adapts to your interests. It's written in Go, such that it can handle a ton of traffic on a cheap box.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mattbarrie » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:23 AM UTC

I'm here with Alan Noble who runs engineering at Google Australia and ran the Google Reader project until 18 months ago. They looked at open sourcing it but it was too much effort to do so because it's tied to closely to Google infrastructure. Basically it's been culled due to long term declining use.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 7:30 AM UTC

fakeer wrote: post #488

tracker1 wrote: post #391

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Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

That's where I stopped and shall not try it ever if they don't remove and no, I am not going to create a new a/c for that. I mean it's totally for spamming purposes - either to me or my contacts. By the way, interface looks cleaner, I wish so were the intentions :-)

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