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I guess you had to be there? "it's just like Google Reader" means it's NOT as good, but close enough. GR was solid and we LOVED it, especially the search. I thi

I guess you had to be there? "it's just like Google Reader" means it's NOT as good, but close enough. GR was solid and we LOVED it, especially the search. I think RSS readers are one of those things that some of us LOVE and we're still bitter that Google took it away. Maybe it was the first big thing Google cancelled? I know for me it was, and I've not trusted anything new from Google since. Maybe that's it... before they broke my heart with killing Reader I really believed they were different, that they really tried to "not be evil" and then POOF one day my favorite thing on the web was gone. I guess you had to be there, I know it sounds ridiculous.

treesknees 6y ago
As others have said, it marked a turning point for how Google is perceived. It's not as though GR had 100k beta users like Stadia, it had nearly 5 million active users when it shut down. The closing marked the end of Google doing cool things because they're cool, and showed their true colors as a major corporation looking after profits first. Something that is pretty much a given opinion of them today.
mxfh 6y ago
I miss search the most, no other replacement came even close. Like a searchable corpus of your curated library of stuff you're interested in.
- davidivadavid 6y ago
  Search was also the feature I missed in most replacements. Pretty happy with BazQux these days, though.
- efreak 6y ago
  Why does nobody else benton the feature that local rss readers can't duplicate: the full history of the entire feed starting the first time it was indexed. Start up Google reader and for most feeds you've got the full history from day one.
arunc 6y ago
Well said. Coincidentally I was talking about GR to my wife and kid last night. It is a sad death indeed.
Can_Not 6y ago
I never heard of google reader until long after it ended, but endless mountains of garbage claiming to be "just like X" is all too familiar.

treesknees 6y ago

As others have said, it marked a turning point for how Google is perceived. It's not as though GR had 100k beta users like Stadia, it had nearly 5 million active users when it shut down. The closing marked the end of Google doing cool things because they're cool, and showed their true colors as a major corporation looking after profits first. Something that is pretty much a given opinion of them today.

mxfh 6y ago

I miss search the most, no other replacement came even close. Like a searchable corpus of your curated library of stuff you're interested in.

davidivadavid 6y ago
Search was also the feature I missed in most replacements. Pretty happy with BazQux these days, though.
efreak 6y ago
Why does nobody else benton the feature that local rss readers can't duplicate: the full history of the entire feed starting the first time it was indexed. Start up Google reader and for most feeds you've got the full history from day one.

arunc 6y ago

Well said. Coincidentally I was talking about GR to my wife and kid last night. It is a sad death indeed.

Can_Not 6y ago

I never heard of google reader until long after it ended, but endless mountains of garbage claiming to be "just like X" is all too familiar.