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I still feel too burned by Reader to invest in another tool by Google!
by roland35 7y ago
I still feel too burned by Reader to invest in another tool by Google!
- flir 7y agoNever forget.
- KingOfCoders 7y agoSame here.
- ajayyy 7y agoDon't forget that they deleted all Google+ data when they shut it down. And that was not a small service
- benatkin 7y agoTo add insult to injury, they show their standard 404 message when I click a link to an old Google+ post.
- lopis 7y agoAnd by doing that, piratically killed RSS. Sure, RSS is still around, but lots of sites dropped support and lots of users stopped using it.
- tandr 7y agoFor me, Feedly did fill some of the niche there, but it does not have that Reader or whatever next community was there to have "share with friends and discuss" part. But HN covered that part a bit too
- elviejo 7y agoplus one...
- kgwxd 7y agoI think of it as a favor, made me realize RSS is better on its own.
- zshift 7y agoI’m still feeling the pain from that. They built the best (for my use case) RSS reader, then completely shut it down. I wish companies would sometimes consider transitioning projects into the public space for the greater good. Look at what Microsoft has done with VSCode and the community editions.