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im sorry but: fuck everything about this. google reader was the site where i've learned the most in the internet by sharing and reading other people's comments

by barredo 15y ago

im sorry but: fuck everything about this. google reader was the site where i've learned the most in the internet by sharing and reading other people's comments and notes. it was a truly content based social network it was fun it was great it is gone

jzawodn 15y ago
Indeed. Google is starting to show signs of Yahooizing itself. And that's really sad.
- runn1ng 15y ago
  I don't know. (Disclaimer: I never used Google Reader's social functions, they seemed too complicated to me) Is having a clear focus Yahooizing? What Yahoo is doing is having tens of various and sometimes overlapping services. Google doesn't want to go this road and is cutting the services so they are clearly defined and don't overlap. Now I have reservations about google plus (or "We can do Facebook, too!"), but that's on another post.
joebadmo 15y ago
I totally disagree. The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control. The new system allows you to share with select groups, or publicly, in a very granular way. Just because you got used to an old, broken way of doing things doesn't mean that it was better. I can't believe the amount of collective bitching about this long-overdue overhaul.
- rfvtgb 15y ago
  While being able to share to particular groups is nice, this just adds a new site that I need to check everyday (ie. G+) which goes against everything a feed aggregator should be. It would be nice if there was an interface to G+ from reader where you can share, view and comment from inside Reader.
- rdl 15y ago
  I never used their old social features at all, but loved how easy it was to skim long lists of RSS items in the old reader. I'll probably switch to a self-hosted web rss thing or a local client instead, now.
- barredo 15y ago
  > The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control. They were not. I've been using them (with a group of +100 people, almost of all of them "Computer Illiterate") for 4 to 5 years.

by barredo 15y ago

jzawodn 15y ago

Indeed. Google is starting to show signs of Yahooizing itself. And that's really sad.

runn1ng 15y ago
I don't know. (Disclaimer: I never used Google Reader's social functions, they seemed too complicated to me) Is having a clear focus Yahooizing? What Yahoo is doing is having tens of various and sometimes overlapping services. Google doesn't want to go this road and is cutting the services so they are clearly defined and don't overlap. Now I have reservations about google plus (or "We can do Facebook, too!"), but that's on another post.

joebadmo 15y ago

I totally disagree. The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control. The new system allows you to share with select groups, or publicly, in a very granular way. Just because you got used to an old, broken way of doing things doesn't mean that it was better. I can't believe the amount of collective bitching about this long-overdue overhaul.

rfvtgb 15y ago
While being able to share to particular groups is nice, this just adds a new site that I need to check everyday (ie. G+) which goes against everything a feed aggregator should be. It would be nice if there was an interface to G+ from reader where you can share, view and comment from inside Reader.
rdl 15y ago
I never used their old social features at all, but loved how easy it was to skim long lists of RSS items in the old reader. I'll probably switch to a self-hosted web rss thing or a local client instead, now.
barredo 15y ago
> The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control. They were not. I've been using them (with a group of +100 people, almost of all of them "Computer Illiterate") for 4 to 5 years.