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Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. edit: > Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshi
by johnchristopher 9y ago
Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users.
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> Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything.
That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough.
That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reader: I could forget about if for two weeks but Google would happily and regularly download feeds while I was not connected. Feeddemon and others couldn't do that unless they connected to proxy-like services.
Of course that has some implications regarding privacy.
- imron 9y ago> Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. So RSS wins again.
- johnchristopher 9y agoDepends on the war you are waging.
- Semaphor 9y agoI don't understand your comparison. The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app? But every other webbased reader had the same advantage, and since Google Reader's demise, we got an explosion of amazing readers, from free over self-hosted to paid.
- johnchristopher 9y ago`Feeddemon and others` refer to regular applications (see http://www.feeddemon.com/ http://www.feeddemon.com/). Google reader was, to my knowledge, the dominant feed reader back then even though other services existed (and filled up the space when GR was discontinued) and had that same advantage. > The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app? Over regular client readers, yes.
- tripzilch 9y agowhat I liked about Google reader was that I could subscribe to friends feeds, curated by what they decided what was worthwhile to share (from their own rss feeds, mostly comp.sci stuff). and most importantly, that it did just that (if unasked) without getting all Facebooky, playing mind games etc to draw you into more "social" "engagement".
- bad_user 9y agoThere are plenty of alternatives to Google Reader around. I use NewsBlur.
- dejv 9y agoAnother one is Bazqux. Horrible name, but great little product: fast, stable, no nonsense and cheap ($19/year). Using it daily for years and haven't seen single outage or any problem.