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This whole Old Reader debacle is just absurd to me. According to this blog post[0], life for the developers has become "hell in every possible aspect we could i
by w1ntermute 13y ago
This whole Old Reader debacle is just absurd to me. According to this blog post[0], life for the developers has become "hell in every possible aspect we could imagine" as a result of all the users they've gotten since Google Reader shut down. But this makes no sense - why wouldn't you just start charging for access so that you can hire more people to run the site, and so that you don't get overwhelmed with more users than you can handle?
0: http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-time...
- wmf 13y agoThey addressed that, if obliquely: "not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur". It sounds like they didn't want to turn it into a job.
- autotravis 13y agoProbably should have closed registrations when Google announced the impending death of Reader, then.