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> Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night. I wonder if anyone in Google management ever looks back and regrets
by dave5104 7y ago
> Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night.
I wonder if anyone in Google management ever looks back and regrets that decision?
It's still always being brought up, even 6.5 years later.
- sylens 7y agoIt was the end of the halo effect for Google amongst the prosumer crowd, definitely.
- res0nat0r 7y agoI'm guessing that the current revenue of GCP vs. Google Reader tells management that they made a smart decision.
- bhl 7y agoI always see google reader talked about on hackernews, but has a comparable product not have been made by someone else yet?
- lallysingh 7y agoThere are plenty, actually. But RSS itself is essentially dead. At least compared to what it was.
- juped 7y agoHow is it dead? Everything still exports RSS feeds.
- lallysingh 7y agoThe last time I tried RSS again (I was a big reader user), every feed had a on paragraph summary and link to the full article on the website. I couldn't actually read the news in it anymore.
- Multicomp 7y agoSo I just counted my RSS feeds via Live Bookmarks (dang you Firefox for killing them shakes cane) and I have 60+(! I expected like 30 tops) RSS feeds that I check regularly. Most sites have RSS feeds, even the heavy hitters like YouTube.
- vkou 7y agoNothing that is widely used, because as it turns out, RSS is not the web technology of the future. Or the present, really.
- deegles 7y agoSide note, I remember the next 5 or so most popular alternatives to Reader being overloaded for weeks after the shutdown.
- NikkiA 7y agoI still use feedly almost daily.