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> they will use your comment to help make better products. Ironically, I can't really come up with 'better product' in this specific use case. "Reader killed
by lloeki 14y ago
> they will use your comment to help make better products.
Ironically, I can't really come up with 'better product' in this specific use case.
"Reader killed RSS" feels just wrong. If anything Reader made RSS thrive, because the data source that get sinked into Reader data is RSS.
Reader is a killer product that shifted the landscape because it fills one single role (RSS aggregator with read+fav status syncing), and does it extremely well, in a fantastically unobtrusive way. I sure as hell don't want another Google product as a remplacement, nor another existing or future product integrate RSS aggregation (and certainly not Plus) as part of it. I don't want a kitchensink or mishmash social/news/aggregator app.
Anyone current or past Google employee who put some work on Reader, here's my personal message to you: thank you, your work is awesome.
- jcampbell1 14y agoI agree. I find most of Google products awesome, and thank the engineers for their work. I also think Google is smart to try to get out in front of the negative press. I think this attempt is solid approach to redirect people's passion in a positive direction. The only mistake I see, is that nobody spoke up and said, "Reader doesn't have many users, but the users are bloggers and journalists, so we better shut this thing down with an extreme amount of empathy." In the interest of being constructive, I think they should have: 1) Done a phased shutdown by disabling adding new feeds. 2) Published the API 3) Offer to work with alternative providers to make migration easy.