Google Reader shutting down • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by gtt » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #495

tomjen3 wrote: post #492

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Because that is what googles mission is? To index all the worlds information and make it universually useful? Oh right, these days it is making shitty copies of facebook.

No, Google's mission is to make money. Everything else is optional.

Why not enter drug dealing business then?

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by vacipr » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

unsane1 wrote: post #602

vacipr wrote: post #313

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It's definitely slow right now.Just wait a few minutes.

FINALLY. I let it work overnight and they finally showed. Now if only they would work on the OAUTH limits mentioned above.

I guess you had a lot of feeds.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by olifante » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

Shutting down Google Reader makes a mockery of their famous mission statement: "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by forgotAgain » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:35 PM UTC

Sounds like an opportunity for Yahoo to raise its profile.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by prathibhanu » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:35 PM UTC

Checkout http://multiplx.com as an alternate to Google Reader.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mkr-hn » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:39 PM UTC

HN deaded this when I tried to submit it: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network

I don't know why. It's a great eulogy for Reader, written in 2012.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by forgotAgain » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

I wonder if bit by bit ending secondary products like this doesn't separate Google from its customers. Part of my reason for not using search services like Bing is that I'm tied to Google by their secondary products such as Reader. The end of Reader will loosen Google's hold on me. As will the end of iGoogle.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by vacipr » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

notdang wrote: post #478

vacipr wrote: post #308

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No.But you should already have a google account since you used google reader I suppose.

I have, but I don't feel comfortable with this: "The Old Reader is requesting permission to: View and manage your Google Contacts"

There should be more info about this here but the page is currently down. https://theoldreader/pages/privacy

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by avaku » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:49 PM UTC

At readrz.com, we will be releasing a related tool in a few weeks. It is not a pure RSS reader, but it's useful for aggregating information. See more details and subscribe for updates at http://eepurl.com/d48hj

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by luckysh0t » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC

crag wrote: post #604

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'm sure this has been reported already but, after creating an account I see: "NewsBlur experienced an error The error has been logged and will be fixed soon so you won't have to see this message again."

ditto