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I used Reader back when it was going, and I'm still not sure why people are so obsessed over it. I mean, yeah, it was pretty cool, but like 20 replacements popp

by ufmace 10y ago

I used Reader back when it was going, and I'm still not sure why people are so obsessed over it. I mean, yeah, it was pretty cool, but like 20 replacements popped up as soon as Google announced they were cancelling it. I switched to Feedly long ago, and never looked back.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Yeah, I'm very happy with newsblur, and sure it's got things about it I'd want changed, I'm going to keep giving them money for a long time.
- kbenson 10y ago
  I agree that NewsBlur is very good. I spent a while on Feedly, then moved to NewsBlur a year or two later and found it much more configurable and fitting with how I like to use my feeds. I started giving them money shortly after that.
JauntTrooper 10y ago
I used Reader daily, but after it was shut down I never picked up a new RSS aggregator. I stopped reading all but one of those bloggers. A big part of Reader's appeal was the network -- I enjoyed sharing blogs with friends of mine that were linked through Gchat. And I say that as someone who never got into any other social network. It was probably better for my productivity, I suppose, but I still miss it.
- taeric 10y ago
  I don't think many realized just how seamless it was with a few of Google's other aborted services. Buzz, I think, was the main way my friends saw what I commented on. And I would see people's replies in Gmail. It was surprisingly well done. :(
  - likeclockwork 10y ago
    And Google Listen for podcasts! I basically just stopped dealing with RSS when reader folded up even though it was adding something to my life. I'm back to checking the same sites over and over throughout the day.
    - taeric 10y ago
      Same here. And... the number of sites has shrunken quite a bit. I think the thing that had me, was Reader was a great way to expand you communication in the groups you were already in. I didn't have to join a new community. I was bringing new topics into mine.
waterphone 10y ago
There were dozens or more different desktop and mobile RSS apps which used Google Reader as their back-end. As soon as Reader shut down, they all lost their ability to have Reader download all the content from the cached feeds and sync to the client when connecting, which allowed people to have their computer off for days and come back without losing any content from their feeds (many feeds have 30 or less items at a time, and if you don't check for a while, you'll simply miss many posts). New syncing systems came up in its place, but it fragmented the market and different apps started using different backends, or their own paid backends, and there was no longer a de-facto standard backend protocol that everything supported.

by ufmace 10y ago

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

Yeah, I'm very happy with newsblur, and sure it's got things about it I'd want changed, I'm going to keep giving them money for a long time.

kbenson 10y ago
I agree that NewsBlur is very good. I spent a while on Feedly, then moved to NewsBlur a year or two later and found it much more configurable and fitting with how I like to use my feeds. I started giving them money shortly after that.

JauntTrooper 10y ago

I used Reader daily, but after it was shut down I never picked up a new RSS aggregator. I stopped reading all but one of those bloggers. A big part of Reader's appeal was the network -- I enjoyed sharing blogs with friends of mine that were linked through Gchat. And I say that as someone who never got into any other social network. It was probably better for my productivity, I suppose, but I still miss it.

taeric 10y ago
I don't think many realized just how seamless it was with a few of Google's other aborted services. Buzz, I think, was the main way my friends saw what I commented on. And I would see people's replies in Gmail. It was surprisingly well done. :(
- likeclockwork 10y ago
  And Google Listen for podcasts! I basically just stopped dealing with RSS when reader folded up even though it was adding something to my life. I'm back to checking the same sites over and over throughout the day.
  - taeric 10y ago
    Same here. And... the number of sites has shrunken quite a bit. I think the thing that had me, was Reader was a great way to expand you communication in the groups you were already in. I didn't have to join a new community. I was bringing new topics into mine.

waterphone 10y ago

There were dozens or more different desktop and mobile RSS apps which used Google Reader as their back-end. As soon as Reader shut down, they all lost their ability to have Reader download all the content from the cached feeds and sync to the client when connecting, which allowed people to have their computer off for days and come back without losing any content from their feeds (many feeds have 30 or less items at a time, and if you don't check for a while, you'll simply miss many posts). New syncing systems came up in its place, but it fragmented the market and different apps started using different backends, or their own paid backends, and there was no longer a de-facto standard backend protocol that everything supported.