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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by itsjustjoe »

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…

The 'Import from Google Reader' option, while a great idea, a) it needs to be advertised better, and b) it doesn't seem work for me.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mindcrime »

pknight wrote: post #562
mindcrime wrote: post #271

F^&@ D^&@ IT! ^%&( ()&@& @&!^$&!!!!! Of ALL the things they would shut-down, they have to kill Reader!?? Nooooooooooooo!! Aaargggghhhh.... Oh well, guess it's back to RSSOwl[1]. Maybe this will even motivate me to get involved in hacking on RSSOwl a bit and help those guys out. This will probably also serve as the impetus for me to start adding some Reader like features to Neddick[2]. That was always sort of in the b…

I switched to RSSowl quite a while ago and didn't find myself longing back to Google Reader once. It does everything I'd want, it's just not that pretty of an application.

My biggest gripe with RSSOwl was that it was that it had some performance issues, especially if you had a lot of feeds. And using Google Reader eliminated the need to synchronize my list of feeds between multiple RSSOwl instance (like, say, my personal laptop and my company laptop).

But the first issue may be mitigated by hardware improvements since the last time I was using RSSOwl regularly, and I have some ideas around the second issue.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mindcrime »

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…

Very cool. I'll definitely check NewsBlur out. Hopefully it rocks so much that it makes me forget about Reader altogether.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by sbarre »

tvchurch wrote: post #163
tvladeck wrote: post #88

Mixed emotions. I remember at the end of college and right after (I graduated in 2008), many of my close friends were on GReader and we would share and communicate directly through it about interesting things we were reading. It was an awesome way to interact, and nothing has replaced it for my group and me. Google's implicit (although I could be reading their intentions incorrectly) strategy of trying to route that…

I'd note that Readertron (readertron.com) was built by a guy who was frustrated when Google nerfed the sharing among friends feature. MIght want to give it a shot.

I am interested in Google Reader replacements, but that site has zero information for me before asking me for my email and to sign up..

Hmmmm

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by nsxwolf »

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…

Very cool, but where is the content in the demo coming from? The first thing I clicked on was some anti-Pope Francis screed. If it's a crowdsourced demo that's one thing, but probably not the friendliest thing to hand-pick.

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Post by neves »

At least now I'll have to search for another reader. I've always were worried that Google knows too much about me. They can access my email, see what I search and download, and every news/blog that I follow.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by k3n »

mikro2nd wrote: post #499
k3n wrote: post #298

I'll bet you anything the catalyst behind this is in some way related to G+, the introduction of which has led to a steady removal of features from Reader. This news is really rubbing me the wrong way; I've been a long-time Google customer, even a 'Google hipster' as my friends would say. I'm an early-adopter that often beta tests. I was the only one at work with GMail when it was released, and was always out of invi…

LOL - I hadn't been aware of that blog, so headed over to take a look. Liked it so much I was just about to hit "Add to Reader"... Bugger. Mark my words, Blogger is next for some choppie-choppie. Have you noticed how it, too, is steadily being neglected/deprecated in favour of posting to some G+ river of drivel?

D: I'm sure that's going to be a phantom pain (pang?) felt by us for sometime to come starting 7/1...

I highly recommend the blog though, it does a really good job of keeping an eye on all things Google beyond the normal press releases. Today there's a post with some interesting Reader data points[1].

1. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...

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