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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by laacz »

plinkplonk wrote: post #428

The real winner here might be Prismatic. They already do awesome machine learning based discovery. If they'd add an RSS reader (not just RSS feeds into their discovery machine) they'll get every one of millions of users moving off Google Reader. Due Disclosure: Though I have no official connection to Prismatic, founder Bradford Cross is a friend and I am biased to Prismatic. It is awesome. Try it at http://getprismat…

I've never been a fan of giving away choice of what to read to automated systems. Of course some percent of suggested stuff is ok, but actually it all boils down to three components for me. Mostly I read what I want to read (interests). Then I'm interested to follow popular stuff (keeping up). Then I'm all right to take a peak at what a program suggests I could like (discovery).

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by senegoid »

what is concerning is that this decision could influence sites making their feeds available.

Twitter and G+ are not viable alternatives.

Google alerts to RSS were wonderful. I'm sure they will shutter alerts soon too.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by senegoid »

what is concerning is that this decision could influence sites making their feeds available.

Twitter and G+ are not viable alternatives.

Google alerts to RSS were wonderful. I'm sure they will shutter alerts soon too.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by erlichmen »

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…

> That's the first Google service shutdown that I'm affected by.

You never use Google Code Search RIP?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

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…

Brilliant. I created an account. However, there are two very important features that Google reader has:

(1) It lets you add subscriptions to regular websites without an RSS feed.

(2) It lets you search for articles that were published before you subscribed to the feed.

I think you could add (2) simply by redirecting to Google search using the site:sitename.com argument.

(1) may not be that simple to add but it would be an incredibly important feature to have.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by deconq »

I support this move.

For me, RSS is a necessary evil. I always opt for email subscription when I have the choice, because I find it infinitely more convenient to have my subscriptions and emails in the one place, rather than in two separate products.

However, for sites that do not offer email subscription but only offer RSS coughHNcough - I reluctantly use Google Reader to subscribe. Meaning an extra account to check each day.

Hopefully this won't merely result in everyone switching to just another RSS aggregator - instead, I hope it will prompt websites to start using more convenient subscription methods, whether that be email or something else.

RSS is dead. Long live... ???

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

wslh wrote: post #126

Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, a…

It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds...

I don't think Reader can find anything that Google search doesn't know. Using site:sitename.com in a regular Google search should bring up past entries as well.

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Post by jpswade »

I used to have a news (rss feed) reader on my blackberry, which was great.

Now I switched to Android, I've been using Google Reader so I can sync it online too.

So now this sucks, what's the alternative?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by dodyg »

joelhaus wrote: post #387
mmahemoff wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the podcasting side, I began http://player.fm to manage podcasts in the cloud. Since then, Google has dropped support for its official Android app, Listen, and now Reader, which many people used for podcasts. It works from the browser, including mobile browsers, and native apps are coming. There's also an OPML importer, though currently experimental, and subscriptions can be consumed as OPML, RSS, etc.

Wow, didn't consider this until your post. Losing Listen would be a big hit. Can anyone confirm that the Android Listen app will cease to function (i.e. refresh your existing feeds) once Google Reader is shut down? Am pretty sure that it relies solely on Google Reader's "Listen Subscriptions" tag for refreshing your podcast feeds, so that's definitely another gap that needs filling.

I have been working on a river of news style RSS/ATOM/RiverJs client in the past few months (GPL3 license).

The project site is here http://rivers.silverkeytech.com and you get the app here http://goo.gl/kShgp.

The app is a bit young but it is maturing rapidly. I deploy a new version every two weeks or so. The next update is due in a few days.

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