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Isn't this exactly what Reddit is? I wasn't a Google Reader user, but I'd be interesting in understanding what I was missing.
by kypro 6y ago
Isn't this exactly what Reddit is?
I wasn't a Google Reader user, but I'd be interesting in understanding what I was missing.
- aksss 6y agoFor me, Google Reader was about high volume headline digestion, reading articles without having to follow links, read articles without having to switch between a multitude of publishers’ crappy and varied web UIs. It was about fast and efficient information hoovering from around the world. Reddit is a different animal altogether. Great for what it does but not like a clean RSS tree. Also, just want to add: Google killed the “discussions” search filter, which let you limit your search results to forums, around the same time, IIRC. Screw Google.
- tomcooks 6y agoReddit is hardly a place for people who don't like talking about themselves~
- airstrike 6y agoIn fact we've probably reached the peak opposite of that with people posting about themselves on /r/nextfuckinglevel
- vanderZwan 6y agoSee my response to another comment suggesting HN is a proper replacement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582491 What I forgot to mention in that comment was that Google Reader was tied to your Gmail account. The only people who were in "your" network by default were other people on Gmail where Google had somehow determined that you knew each other (presumably whether you were in each other's address book). This is opposite of HN or Reddit, where everyone can sign up and it's basically all strangers in a public popularity contest.