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Google’s Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday
- the_watcher 14y agoThis is really messing with my news consumption. Looking for best alternatives.
- uladzislau 14y agoI expect Google will discontinue the Reader at some point and suggest to use Google+ instead.
- the_watcher 14y agoThat would drive me crazy. RSS might not be the perfect technology, but for someone like me, who likes to skim headlines and brief summaries throughout the day, it's a great way to keep everything organized. I don't want all of my RSS feed to be social.
- sentenza 14y agoIMO RSS is one of the backbones of the social net. There are a lot of people out there that pull content into the social networks from their rss stream. There is also this: From my experience, social networks as they exist today are totally useless for keeping up with a large number of information sources. It is just impossible to keep things sorted. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
- gm 14y agoThat would be like discontinuing Google Reader and pointing people to Google Docs as an alternative. Apples and oranges.
- schoper 14y agoI noticed problems with Google Reader last night. Not present in Firefox and they went away when I restarted Chrome.
- the_watcher 14y agoIt's been on and off for me since yesterday.
- gm 14y agoI got the same revived old entries. Google Reader works, but had a blip yesterday. Mark stuff as read again and move on people. BTW, I read this story on Google Reader, fwiw.
- NateDad 14y agohaha, me too
- the_watcher 14y agoThe blip is still occurring today. Every five minutes my Reader says 1000+ new entries.
- NateDad 14y agoWorks fine for me.
- kenoh 14y agoSame here. Haven't had any problems yet.
- greenmountin 14y agoWhat are the appropriately open / stripped down alternatives? I don't need a social network (or even 10s update rates), just a cloud that knows what I've already read.
- lh7777 14y agoNewsBlur is an open source alternative that's worked great for me over the past year or so. Even if GR isn't destined to be shut down, NewsBlur's worth the switch just for the Intelligence feature.
- dunham 14y agoI haven't seen any problems in Reeder, which uses Google Reader as a back-end server for feeds and "read/unread" state. Perhaps this is just a problem in the web client code?
- the_watcher 14y agoAccording to the article, it is a problem for clients that use it as a back-end too. Seems like it isn't affecting everyone though.
- the_watcher 14y agoIt's back up for me it seems. Knock on wood, I guess.