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Number of times google reader has a planned shut down, in which I still have plenty of time to grab my data: 1 Number of times something has happened to make a
by garyrichardson 14y ago
Number of times google reader has a planned shut down, in which I still have plenty of time to grab my data: 1
Number of times something has happened to make an old desktop app stop working: numerous
for example (I haven't experienced all of these):
- switching from Windows -> Mac
- having my hard drive fail and finding out my backups were broken
- OSX upgrades breaking backwards compatibility (ie, old binary format)
- having my laptop stolen
- switching jobs, requiring me to give my laptop back
- having multiple devices that I like to read news on (ie, phone, laptop, tablet)
I much prefer to have as little as possible tied to the hunk of metal my sweaty fingers type on. I haven't lost any data yet from using 'cloud services' and the GR replacement I pick will be well vetted.
- gnosis 14y agoI value my privacy far more than any feature or convenience a web app may offer. This is one of the main reasons why I stay away from web apps as much as possible, and use open-source client-side apps whenever I can. As a side-benefit, I also don't have to rely on the whims of the web app provider to keep their service running. Unless you use web apps for absolutely everything, you're still going to have to make backups. And if you're making backups anyway, how hard is it to include a tiny little list of RSS feed URLs which can be used to pick up from where you left off with any RSS reader, should anything happen? Anyway, if you screw up your backups, you've got far more serious problems than simply restoring an RSS feed list. Do a good job on backups, and the rest mostly falls in to place.