that is so sad.
Google Reader shutting down
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#72Ugh. I was living in fear of this happening for the past 3 years.
I will never trust Google again.
Apparently the only Google service I don't have a good alternative for is Google Books (for search; kindle, torrented bookwarez, and scribd works fine for the raw PDFs)
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#73This is a sad news, one of my favourite RSS reader is closing. Google Reader is likely the site I browse the most, and I always have one tab open on it. Also, my phone sync with RSS with it.
I guess it's time to start searching for a new RSS reader. Too bad that I already did it a while ago, and every time I went back to Google Reader.
The biggest problem for me with other feed reader is that they try to add too many features to the simple format that RSS is. No, I don't care about "hot news", and I don't care about "suggested stories", I just want to read the feed I've added to it. My brain is good enough to skim through that list by just reading the title.
And most other reader lack integration with a mobile platform (Android/iOS/WP). Yes, sometimes they have a mobile client, but usually not nearly good enough as 3rd party clients.
Hopefully they'll change their mind, but I doubt it. Time to force myself. Sigh.
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#74Perhaps the "decline in usage" had something to do with the thoughtless redesign they implemented.
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#75I was kind of always expecting this ... I'm always afraid the same thing will happen to Voice.
I don't know, Voice can act as a competitor to Microsoft's Skype. With no visible competing product from Microsoft, Apple or Facebook and no perceived competition from something like Newsblur Google thinks they can kick their Reader users in the junk with impunity.
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#76Well, this is truly the apocalypse. To me, Google Reader IS the internet.....(It's how I got to this Hacker News post). Not pleased at all.
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#77Still he best way to read content on the web, really sad to see it go. Adding on to this: What he hell do I do with my starred items now, it's literally the best collection of content I have curated in my life and I reference it all the time. edit: petition to keep it open http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-don-t-kill-goo...
You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.
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#78This 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've been using NewsBlur for a few weeks now (I met Sam a couple weekends ago) and I think it's fantastic. Highly recommended.
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#79I'll take the blame for this. I use Google Reader heavily, but I never go to the web pages. I have native apps on my desktop and mobile devices and just use Reader to keep my subscriptions synced. No ad views, no service.
If that was a problem, they should've offered paid subscriptions. I refuse to see ads, but I'll happily pay for the privilege.
I find the Google Reader web interface to be dreadful and ugly, so I never go there except to manage my RSS feeds. Third party devs have created newsreader apps so much better than Google did, it's not even funny.
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#80Just want to repeat here my tweets: Maybe GoLang will be retired in August? AngularJS in September? GAE in October? "Backed by Google" is a joke now. I just can't trust Google anymore. Google Reader was important part of my day - source of information. Google apps are too UNSTABLE to use.