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A very sad day when this was killed. It was my favorite social/intellectual experience at the time. Really never recovered from it.
by noman-land 6y ago
A very sad day when this was killed. It was my favorite social/intellectual experience at the time. Really never recovered from it.
- dccoolgai 6y agoThe Web hasn't recovered from it, either. In retrospect, they obviously did it to pave way for AMP. Now that AMP is gone, maybe there's a small chance they could bring it back.
- Reason077 6y agoI dunno. They easily could have integrated AMP into Reader, couldn’t they?
- exikyut 6y agoIt was a different time. Back then, people would have shot it dead for tech-astroturfing. Today, people wouldn't see the point since AMP is more convenient anyway. /s
- rhacker 6y agoI'm guessing it's not coming back - it competes with google news which makes Google money where reader did not.
- SquareWheel 6y agoAMP doesn't cause any issues for RSS readers. People are still using Inoreader, Feedly, etc just fine today. > Now that AMP is gone Why do you say that?
- Reason077 6y ago> "Why do you say that?" Recently it was reported that Google will no longer give search-result priority to AMP pages. Which means any incentive for publishers to support them is gone.
- SquareWheel 6y agoThat seems pretty speculative. We've known AMP would be losing its priority in the carousel for almost a year now, but I haven't seen any reduction in its usage.
- prepend 6y agoI’m excited thinking about 2040 when Google pulls a Microsoft and starts working to be cool. One of the fun nostalgic ways they show that they’re no longer assholes will be reviving and open sourcing Reader. Kind of like how Microsoft open sourced calc.exe. There’s no business value or harm but it’s a good symbol. Old Microsoft would have complained how they had to prioritize engineering resources and open sourcing calc.exe was bad (like Google needed to prioritize engineers away from Reader).