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I gave the entire gamut a chance back then, none was the same. They either cost a lot, didn’t offer the same UX or both. The fact that we are celebrating its an

I gave the entire gamut a chance back then, none was the same. They either cost a lot, didn’t offer the same UX or both. The fact that we are celebrating its anniversary today shows how irreplaceable it was so not sure if I’m the one wearing rose tinted glasses or if it’s the other way around where folks can’t acknowledge the magic some products capture that’s not easy to put in words.

lopis 4y ago
Google Reader had an "outdated" UI, in the sense that it was really bare-bones and feature-less, and focused on its main function. If it survived to today, it would probably have been redesigned 7 times like gmail and become increasingly complex and slow. So while you're not exactly wearing rose tinted glasses, you're yearning for a time when the web was simpler and gave birth to Google Reader.