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Google Reader. I believe this decision lead to the rise of Facebook and Twitter, and consequently the fall of western civilization.
by jelder 5y ago
Google Reader. I believe this decision lead to the rise of Facebook and Twitter, and consequently the fall of western civilization.
- suprjami 5y agoThis. I moved to Feedly who have even started to implement parsers for non-RSS sites. I'm very happy with it.
- c7DJTLrn 5y agoI can also vouch for Feedly. I closed my Google account years ago and needed something to track my YouTube subscriptions. I use it for blog RSS feeds too. It's one of the few things I use that works so well that I don't really think about it.
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- joconde 5y agoNothing I found is as simple and pleasant to use as Google Reader. Feedly comes close, but its default is an ML-curated "magazine" view, and the last thing I want to see is more infinite engagement-optimized streams of titles.
- alexmingoia 5y agoWhat is it that Google Reader had that the many RSS readers lack? Maybe I could incorporate it into my reader (https://sumi.news https://sumi.news).
- BoppreH 5y agoNetwork effects. Google Reader was big enough that many websites added RSS support to ensure users would return. When Google Reader died, too many people stopped subscribing to feeds and hence websites stopped offering them. I'm afraid it's not a simple feature you can just add to your reader :(
- JoeCortopassi 5y agoOne of the more under-rated features, was that it could turn any site into an RSS feed. So if you had a niche site you enjoyed, but didn't have an rss feed, you could still plug it into Reader and get any new articles as if it had a built in rss feed
- rstevens333 5y agobingo