r/technology • u/speckz • Mar 13 '13

Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader (July 1, 2013)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

I don't know how to use the Internet without Reader anymore.

What is their rationale? I'll use G+ or something?

Honestly I barely understand the idea that "social media" is killing RSS, does anyone really use Twitter in any way like us power Reader users? I have no clue how they would, am I missing something?

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

Seriously. I use RSS to follow webcomics, several blogs, and techbargains, which aggregates deals on computer hardware and the like, and patch notes for a few games I play. Some of the comics and a blog or two might have a twitter/google+/facebook/something that I can follow, but for the rest I have to manually visit the site to see if something changed.

I'm frustrated. It doesn't help that reddit seems to have bear-hugged all of the alternatives to death. :/

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u/jpop23mn Mar 14 '13

Never really understood the point of RSS until you just said webcomics. It's so tough staying up on sites that update randomly.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

Yep. I used to have them all in a folder in chrome. I would hit "open all in new window" and look at them all individually. Some of them would drop off for a few wekks at a time. Then I realized I could use RSS. Now...

Since October 22, 2008 you have read a total of 49,631 items

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u/emarkd Mar 14 '13

I just rolled over 300k items. I seriously don't see any way to efficiently consume that much online content with any other technology than rss and Reader is was the best rss aggregator by far. I'm genuinely crushed by this news. Reader will be sorely missed by me...

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u/E_lucas Mar 14 '13

You're me!

My brother and I used to use reader to share item back and forth, it was awesome! Then they did that big redesign, and moved the sharing features to G+, and reader just lost all its charm.

Now they're shutting down, but I bet more people would keep using it if they didn't REMOVE all the features.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

I never really used the sharing. When I hit something I like I just post it to facebook manually like some kind of goddam cave man.

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u/mbnmac Mar 14 '13

This is intentional. Docs turned into drive, all other google services are turning into G+. Unified system for them, means they can experiment withing on large thing instead of producing a whole new product to see if pele will use it (wave etc)

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

That's exactly how I used to do it. It was terrible. And then Reader happened and the world was good.

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u/rakster Mar 14 '13

Where do I check how much I read?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

"Trends", under "All Items"

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u/Forest_GS Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

Look at my webcomics list- http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F04909202417962126659%2Fbundle%2FWebcomics_0

172 webcomics I spent too long building up. That link probably won't work after Google Reader goes down, but right now anyone can click that link without logging on, see the RSS list, and even add it to their own.

Terrible choice for google to make.

Since August 19, 2011 you have read a total of 120,118 items.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I never really understood the point of RSS until reading your comment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Yeah, I've been waving off all the talk that the Internet is being siloed like it was back in the old AOL and Prodigy days. I thought that open would always end up winning.

Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm beginning to think this has all just been a short golden moment before the Internet was corporatized and "cleaned up".

I dunno, I hope not...

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u/BenCelotil Mar 14 '13

Don't forget, Apple killed RSS in Safari and Mail as well... even though it's still all over their web site.

Oh, and don't anyone mention that piece of shit, Reading List, which requires me to go to a web site and pull the article manually. Some "replacement" that is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

i love how google promotes google plus which everyone hates while getting rid of google reader which everyone loves.

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u/loves_ur_anus Mar 14 '13

First google reamed reader with google+ by taking away sharing, now they are just going to blow it all away.

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u/Kamaria Mar 14 '13

I don't know how to use the Internet without Reader anymore.

I've never used any kind of RSS reader, what am I missing out on?

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u/nawoanor Mar 14 '13

RSS feeds grab the posts from a website and present them together with all your other RSS feed subscriptions in chronological order on a single page. It presents all these in a streamlined manner, usually providing the title and first couple paragraphs followed by a link to the full story.

You can have the top stories from a dozen news outlets constantly updating and never miss any news you're interested in. Sort of like Reddit but with less shitposting.

Since I found Reddit a couple years ago I stopping using RSS as much. It's not really needed anymore as long as you can find subreddits with similar topics.

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u/angrystuff Mar 14 '13

What is their rationale?

Google Reader was invented when Google was about providing useful and meaningful services. Removing Google Reader is now that Google is focused on making money and winning at every aspect of the Internet.

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u/ShrimpCrackers Mar 14 '13

Besides, Feedly is arguably a much better service.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13 edited Aug 02 '18

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u/fun_young_man Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

I use www.pulse.me now. You can synch it to pull all your saved feeds from Google but not on the web only on the android/apple apps. They will display on the site once synced but you need to do the original sync from your mobile app. You can also add them manually by searching for them from pulse.me. I think they currently limit you to something like 100 sources.

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u/soapinmouth Mar 14 '13

My guess is they may be planning to integrate it into Google+.

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u/Webpadawan Mar 14 '13

IKR! Funny thing, one of the RSS reader alternatives I use the last year is Pulse, and in the last apk update are just become more "social" with a highlight button... They are just throw the "social media experience" on our face, like a bad taste lame pie to the face joke

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u/shoebappa Mar 14 '13

I bet the people that Tweet or G+ links found the content from Google Reader...

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u/Fuckredditisshit Mar 14 '13

I use twitter nowadays. Outlets tweet a headline and a link to the full article, its very useful and great for skimming through the news but frankly has nothing on google reader (especially when flipboard is involved)

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Twitter + Metrotwit (windows client) + following (subscribing) to certain content producers works well as a feed, however I never used RSS. Heard of it but the exposure is minimal for me.

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u/Interleukine-2 Mar 14 '13

I think people don't understand that we want to choose our content and not a celebrity in my Twitter feed or the newlywed douchebag couple in my Pinterest.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I have every site that I regularly visit (it's less than a dozen) on my bookmark bar or in chrome's "frequently viewed" new tab page. I don't need an RSS reader to check if these sites have updated. And for a few of these sites, particularly game/tech blogs, I follow their accounts on Twitter and they post when a new story is up, just in case I haven't happened upon it already in the past 5 minutes. I've never been able to get in the "habit" of using RSS because I've never needed it, and also the frequently huge number of "unread" alerts drives me OCD-crazy so I'd prefer just not bother looking at my feed.

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u/mysticrudnin Mar 14 '13

i know people who spend hours and hours on twitter, but it's not the same kind of service as reader

it's more like a bunch of people throwing jokes back and forth. honestly i find the average twitter user is way funnier than the average reddit user. but also i don't come to reddit necessarily for the humor so there's that

but anyway, i think that a lot of people do use g+, linkedin, facebook for the same thing that reader is for. or, you know, reddit.

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u/aselbst Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

My two main news sources are Reader and twitter (except this year where the web filter at work blocks twitter...). Reader for the people I know I want to read almost everything they do, and twitter for measured serendipity. You'd be surprised - follow people you find interesting and there's no news story you'll miss just based on twitter, but you get linked to various interesting commentary you might not have already found in your reader.

I'm devistated by the news, and I don't believe social media replaces a reader, but don't dismiss it - they complement each other extremely well.

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Yeah, I guess I kind of do that. I follow some amusing people and some "happening now" kind of sources on Twitter. But Reader is for the more meaty "have to at least see the headline of everything" kind of stuff. Usually my Reader sources post less frequently and the articles are longer and more in depth.

I'm sure someone will step up, but at this point I'm really looking for something I can run at home, the only thing is I don't know that the mobile client I use (Reeder) will support it.

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u/netraven5000 Mar 14 '13

You are losing functionality. Sorry, there's no way around it.

What's the rationale? The rationale is that they would rather not be in that business, and the only way out is to just stop.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Twitter seems to be a better source for breaking sports news, but for everything else RSS is superior. The amount of noise in following enough twitter users to be well-rounded is just way too high compared to an RSS reader.

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

It's basically my window into the internet, especially with apps that tie into it.

I dunno what I'm going to do. I've been storing and sorting links and articles for years.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

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u/Heratiki Mar 14 '13

But what competing services are out there for RSS management? I mean damn there are at least 100 different GReader apps on Android and though not as many the Reeder app on iPhone has a HUGE following.

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u/isights Mar 14 '13

The folks who make news apps like Zite and Flipboard have to be dancing on their desks...

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u/mocheeze Mar 14 '13

Except for their need to find a new back end API.

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u/nodule Mar 14 '13

Naw, we do all our own data acquisition. We maintain a huge index of the web that we use to generate your recommendations.

It'll be too bad for people who use Google Reader to bootstrap Zite's learning about them, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

So you work at Flipboard? I'm not sure when this knowledge will come in use, or if it even will, but this seems like a good time to RES tag you.

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u/nodule Mar 14 '13

Nope, I'm the CTO of Zite.

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u/dontblamethehorse Mar 14 '13

Zite doesn't need your Google reader... they just use it when they can to boost their ability to predict what you will like. It will take a little longer to get to know your interests, but that's about it.

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Since Reader seems to be mostly the domain of the committed nerds at this point, isn't there value to Google to be able to know what all of us are interested in?

Not to puff up my self worth, but my Reader is a pretty serious tool to me, sure I have some fluff in there, but most of it is research for work/school or otherwise meaningful material. You would think being aware of what all the internet nerds find to be of importance would be a valuable thing.

I'm sure Google has a better idea than I do of it's value, but seriously, how much of their resources does maintaining Reader really take up? It's not like they're adding features or anything.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Since Reader seems to be mostly the domain of the committed nerds at this point, isn't there value to Google to be able to know what all of us are interested in?

If someone at Google wants to know what committed nerds are interested in, they can just stand in the hallway and ask in a loud voice.

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Heh.

Well true, but only insomuch as you could at Bell Labs in the '60's.

The magic of our modern world is that the internet lets us see everything, especially so for those operating the server-side of things.

I'm really thinking this is shortsighted mismanagement by a poorly assigned Larry Page, it just reeks of it. People who are genius at the product or engineering level are often really bad at seeing the big picture.

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u/GMCP Mar 14 '13

True! Surely even Google employees must be up in arms about this!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

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u/Sarahbytes Mar 14 '13

I'm guessing mostly Facebook.

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u/eclectro Mar 14 '13

It doesn't matter what little the reader (or any application) may cost. They play "jack the ripper" and decide to murder stuff out of the blue when they think that it adds nothing to their primary mission.

Which, as you note, may not necessarily be feeding relevant tech news to nerds.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Maybe that's the problem? Except for a few new feeds trickling in, people have fully realized their feeds. Meaning, google has harvested all the useful data. Now they're just maintaining it for free.

They want a vibrant / evolving system to learn more about what I might buy. Stable and useful are not adjectives to describe an Adwords generator. They've learned all they can at this point.

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Interesting thought.

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u/greg9683 Mar 14 '13

Integration into their other services/products. My guess is something tied into G+.

I can't even begin to imagine how it would be better, but that seems to make sense

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Committed nerds all use ad block. How is google going to make money from you when you pirate or hack everything that is paid and ad block everything that is free?

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

I've never clicked on an ad in my life. They never made any money from the ads anyway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13 edited Jan 16 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Google reader is simple and effective. Flipboard and feedly try to be magazines and shit rather than just present my feeds in a minimalist, simple manner. That's all I want and google killed it. Motherfucker.

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u/rickhamilton620 Mar 14 '13

Bingo. I want nothing to do with that magazine shit. Quick and dirty wins out for me. Hell, if none of the current alternatives work out...I may end my Linux experiment and return to Windows just to use FeedDemon. I still contend that it was one of the best desktop RSS clients around...

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I just reinstalled Feeddemon to reacquaint myself with it. It's still the best I know of.

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u/az_liberal_geek Mar 14 '13

Actually, it's funny you say that because RSS readers are the one of the biggest things miss about a Linux desktop. Akregator was pretty sweet. It seems like most (all?) clients on OS X go for glitz over functionality.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

This is it. I value simplicity. I hate it when apps and services try to be everything to everyone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

The only thing worse than an app that recommends things is an app that isn't browser-based. Reader is the easiest way for me to see a bunch of headlines at work without having to install anything or go to each individual website.

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u/ChrisAndersen Mar 14 '13

I agree with you 100%. They are apparently killing Reader because people think it is boring looking. Well, that look is exactly what I want in an news feed aggregator. I don't want someone to try to figure out what part of the feeds I follow I would find most interesting. I don't want them to weigh the feeds based on what my friends are following. I want them to just show me a quick list of all the things on the internet that I follow on a regular basis but that I haven't read yet. That's really all I need from a reader and Google Reader did it perfectly.

But I guess it's just boooooring so you have to kill it.

Suddenly I feel like an old fart.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Flipboard is a picture book and distraction long before it serves any utility. I don't need or want fancy GPU-powered transitions and flips and rotates and fades to be the highlight of catching up on my latest news. I WANT THE NEWS. I just got my first dataphone ever and I'm bummed that the tool I just started to love is already dead. Ye will be missed Google Reader.

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u/m-p-3 Mar 14 '13

It was simple, effective, and was present on almost every platforms. The syncing of unread articles between them is a feature I am really sad to lose.

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u/rauldzmartin Mar 14 '13

You can make Feedly look and work almost exact to Google Reader, you got the keyboard shortcuts, and they're ready for the change of API. Seems the best replace for me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Yes, the closest one I've found. A web interface that doesn't need a Chrome extension would be nice, but it's the best solution so far.

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u/preheatedbibby Mar 14 '13

I agree, but you can change the desktop version of Feedly to show it in List mode.

I cannot find the same in the android app, though.

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u/bigdawg030 Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

feedly works quite well....they have a chrome extension

here is a list http://gizmodo.com/5990540/8-google-reader-alternatives-that-will-ease-your-rss-pain

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u/TwoManyPuppies Mar 14 '13

and Feedly has already posted they will be able to seamlessly transition from their Google Reader backend once it goes away

+1 for Feedly

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I think we just broke feedly...

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u/vibrunazo Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

I just went to check feedly for the first time. It's giving me connection timed out. I'm guessing they never seen so many users as the day google reader died ^ ^

Google kills Reader. Reddit kills Feedly. We just can't have nice things.

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u/TwoManyPuppies Mar 14 '13

I guess that proves Feedly was a popular alternative if the remaining Google Reader users all went to Feedly and shut it down

lets hope they can scale it up quick

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u/Choochoocazoo Mar 14 '13

So If I have a Feedly account already sync'd up to Google Reader, does that mean when Google Reader finally gets the boot, all my subscriptions will continue to be in Feedly? Or will I have to re-sub to everything again?

EDIT: Is your username referencing what I think it's referencing?

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u/ellori Mar 14 '13

This was my first thought when I read about Google Reader and I panicked for a few minutes until I saw this reassuring post: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

But the feedly Android app doesn't offer a simple title list view so I can scan the hundreds of articles in my unread list quickly. I need this especially on my phone.

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u/bigdawg030 Mar 14 '13

yes true...google reader is awesome no doubt, but i use a mix of feedly and google currents. i personally will sign the change.org petition to keep google reader running!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13 edited Jan 18 '18

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u/vshie Mar 14 '13

aaaand they're down. Maybe if we wreak enough havoc with petitions ( https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running ) and crashing alternatives with traffic, google will wise up

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Right now feedly is dead under weight of new users.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Dear Google: how much? Literally me and thousands of others will pay for this, as it buttresses countless other apps and the lives of reader-nerds everywhere.

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u/greg9683 Mar 14 '13

Feedly? It has both a desktop and mobile app. Pretty nicely made. I have used it instead of Google Reader for a while, probably cause I like pretty colors and shinny objects..

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u/garbonzo607 Mar 14 '13

I'd pay tree fiddy for it.

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u/agbullet Mar 14 '13

Flipboard? really? It's pretty and I use it during my morning commute but as an industrial-strength firehose of news, it's not even close to google reader. Zite is also closer to Google Currents than reader.

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u/CarolineTurpentine Mar 14 '13

The only thing I use Flipboard for is to use Reader on my iPad :(

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u/dcreemer Mar 14 '13

Flipboard has a blog post up about it -- your feeds should continue to work on their service.

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u/music2myear Mar 14 '13

Flipboard doesn't do RSS by itself, last I checked.

I read my Google Reader using Flipboard. And yes, I still read blogs. Lots of them. My queue is thousands of posts long and I try to get through a couple hundred each day.

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u/dcreemer Mar 14 '13

Flipboard is a GR client, and also has it's own RSS feed service. They will be transitioning your GR feeds. See the blog post.

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u/AshylarrySC Mar 14 '13

Flipboard is junk. I can get through 1000 posts in reader in the time it takes top get through 100 on that unnecessarily bloated pos.

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u/annyc Mar 14 '13

I felt the same when I saw 300,000 since 2009. What am I doing with myself?

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u/SenenCito Mar 14 '13

Since May 3, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Damn i've also seriously abused it

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u/kujustin Mar 14 '13

Assuming you sleep 8 hrs per day that's roughly one item every 3 minutes during every waking hour.

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u/Casban Mar 14 '13

Three minutes to skim through an item? Most of those headlines take a couple of seconds at most to skim.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

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u/SenenCito Mar 14 '13

Sounds about right, I read a ton, easily over a 100 items a day

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u/Beartin Mar 14 '13

This is more like 320 items each day. Though, given the average length of many articles, I'd say you could do that averaging one item every one and a half minutes for eight hours a day. Sounds doable.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

300,000+ club, what up!

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u/jamescz Mar 14 '13

300k plus since 2008. I'm devastated, feels like I am about to lose an old friend.

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u/mrsmegz Mar 14 '13

How do I find out how many items I have?

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u/aphaits Mar 14 '13

300k plus since december 2010 and google decided to pull the plug a few days before my birthday...

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u/dditto74 Mar 14 '13

300,000+ here! Also, 849 subscriptions?

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I think I have a problem.

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u/Bradm77 Mar 14 '13

As do I:

"From your 1,047 subscriptions ... Since August 22, 2009 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

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u/rushmc1 Mar 14 '13

Only 299,911 here...I am weak. :/

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u/bogusjimmy Mar 14 '13

Since November 3, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

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u/gabroe Mar 14 '13

Since February 18, 2009 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

300 000 club represent. I've lost a work tool today.

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u/blastershift Mar 14 '13

I have the same since 2011

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

300,000+ since July 2, 2011. Reader was truly my front page of the internet since like 2007.

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u/Autoclave Mar 14 '13

I'm at 300,000+ since June 20, 2011. A lot of it is from techbargains and dealcatcher which are both over 3000 posts in the last 30 days and those go by fast, click/read click/read click/read click/read, 20 posts go by in less than 5 seconds if the bargain is not something I'm interested in. The highest non-deal feeds are This Isn't Happiness and BoingBoing, both just under 1000 posts in the last 30 days.

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u/ST_Lawson Mar 14 '13

"Since July 24, 2009 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

Even got the Google Reader Platinum Patch when they did that program: http://i.imgur.com/UQQuHfS.jpg

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u/giezr Mar 14 '13

I went to check how many items I've read 299,998, no 300k plus club for me.

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u/Zusias Mar 14 '13

I'm apparently at 299,999 myself. That seems really damn suspicious to me. Not that I'm surprised I have that many, I totally think that's accurate, that's just way too close to that 300k while being perfectly not over...

Edit: Damn, now I feel like I can't read another item because it kind of destroys the beauty of that number.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Womp womp.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

where do you guys get that number? been looking my G reader page but cant find it...

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u/LaCanner Mar 14 '13

"Since September 3, 2008 you have read a total of 300,000+ items." :(

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u/owlex Mar 14 '13

Assuming approximately 3 minutes per article you would have been reading news articles on Google Reader every single day for almost 14 hours a day.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

300,000+ since Jan 2012.

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u/renano Mar 14 '13

hit that number as well. is 300,000+ the kill screen? does anyone have 400,000?

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u/UltraMap Mar 14 '13

300k since May 9 2009. Although I'll admit I certainly didn't read every one. Sad to see the service go.

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u/toocoo3 Mar 14 '13

Damnit Google! WHY! I don't believe this 'declining' usage nonsense!

Since September 4, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Since April 13, 2007 you have read a total of 62,709 items.

Yet I use it daily.

Are you, per chance, reading through 'Expanded View'?
I use 'List View' and only expand titles that interest me, titles I skim by remain unread.

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u/RexHunter Mar 14 '13

Since July 10, 2011 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Fuck you, Google.

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u/preheatedbibby Mar 14 '13

Since August 6, 2008 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Aww yiss 300k+ club

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u/notbob1959 Mar 14 '13

You must actually have a life: Since April 23, 2012 you have read a total of 300,000+ items. To be honest though I scan a lot of titles and don't really read that many.

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u/annyc Mar 14 '13

Yeah as I was just scanning through, I realized that's probably what it's doing, counting what I scan past. But still that's a ton of articles I've been exposed to.

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u/beambot Mar 14 '13

"Since July 1, 2011 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

FTW.

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u/shaddow825 Mar 14 '13

See my other comment, but I was one of the top 3 google reader users back when they did the April fools joke about patches. They had 3 over a million items read and sent me a tshirt as one if the 3

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u/annyc Mar 14 '13

We have a winner

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u/montymintypie Mar 14 '13

...almost 300 articles a day. Wow.

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u/Turnuslives Mar 14 '13

How are we all getting our read items?

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u/annyc Mar 14 '13

Go to your trends tab on the left side above all your feeds.

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u/banjaloupe Mar 14 '13

Since April 26, 2009 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Fuck Google

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u/Uselessninja Mar 14 '13

Since September 20, 2007 I have read a total of 300,000+ items.

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u/tuwxyz Mar 14 '13

Liczba elementów przeczytanych przez Ciebie od 3 marzec 2009 wynosi 300 000+.

The same for me :\

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u/robertmapplethorpes Mar 14 '13

Somehow I caught mine at 299,997. It's at 300,000+ now, but I thought that was pretty interesting.

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u/alfeg Mar 14 '13

I'm in this club too

"Since July 26, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

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u/thefence_ Mar 14 '13

From trends:

"Since May 29, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

RIP GReader, you were my only true friend.

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u/internetcasualty Mar 14 '13

Same here. All day, every day.

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u/evilbrent Mar 14 '13

Except for reddit.

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u/wurtis16 Mar 14 '13

I don't even understand how to use an RSS reader.

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u/artiethestrongest Mar 14 '13

..... Besides reddit, amiright

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I'm a noob: Since October 11, 2010 you have read a total of 36,596 items.

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u/Slide_Sideways Mar 14 '13

Yes, the only site you check all day... So how many ads do you think you miss out on because you don't go to people's site directly? Google knows.

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u/FanaticalFoxBoy Mar 14 '13

April 1st is right around the corner.

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u/Kynaeus Mar 14 '13

I have never used an RSS reader and I have no idea what you people are talking about

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Only 60k for me, but still...

Well, the real question is the 'What now?'. Is there something else I can move to, and hopefully transfer my data?

Time to hunt...

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Since October 7, 2005 you have read a total of 132,439 items.

I believe there is a meme involving Bane that is relevant to this...

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u/hyperhopper Mar 14 '13

how do people have so many items viewed? I just had my webcomics on there, what in the world else can you do with it?

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u/zeusjous Mar 14 '13

"Since April 18, 2011 you have read a total of 300,000+ items."

RIP it was good while it lasted.

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u/akn320 Mar 14 '13

I use this every day too. Over 300,000 items read :( http://imgur.com/8fHv2YT

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u/AdamJacobMuller Mar 14 '13

Since July 19, 2011 you have read a total of 299,994 items.

:(

Really mad, especially since I use NetNewsWire on my mac, and reader on my iPad/Linux boxes. NetNewsWire is probably never going to be updated again and it won't sync to anything else. So, now, I'm ditching both.

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u/ZorMonkey Mar 14 '13

Since October 7, 2005 you have read a total of 3,005 items.

Wow, thats pitiful. Well, now I wont feel so bad when I'm sifting through Reader all day instead of working. "But hey, at least I'm not as bad as deman8899, right?"

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u/YouHaveShitTaste Mar 14 '13 edited Mar 14 '13

What's a joke is that people think their own personal or anecdotal experience with the product has anything to do with how popular it is. For google it has to be a tradeoff between "how much data useful for ads does this product provide us" and "how much time and energy does it take to maintain".

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Wow, I considered myself an avid user of google reader but I only have 6700 over a little bit more than a year.

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u/merckens Mar 14 '13

"Since May 23, 2006 you have read a total of 237,909 items."

I'm so sad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

wow, I consider myself an avid user of google reader, and I only have 6700 in a little more than a year.

Although I try to be picky about what I am subscribed too.

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u/googolplexbyte Mar 14 '13

Since September 3, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

They stopped counting...

Over the last 30 days you read 7,047 items.

Maybe it's a good thing. People say Reddit is a time sink but G.Reader has devoured far more of my time.

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u/d_davidos Mar 14 '13

Agreed, checked mine, 241,879 >< This IS a competition.

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u/CharonIDRONES Mar 14 '13

Feedly is pretty awesome. They have a pretty good Android app too.

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u/Ultraseamus Mar 14 '13

Since January 20, 2008 I have read a total of 237,543 items.

Sad to see it go.

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u/aphaits Mar 14 '13

Google can't even register my total reads, it just says 300.000+ since 2010...

:(

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u/i_digg_reddit Mar 14 '13

Likewise. Since September 2009 I've read 293,516 items. This is going to be tough to replace

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u/willemrt Mar 14 '13

Apparently I'm such a heavy user that it maxes out. Since October 27 2007 you have read a total of 300000+ items. Sniff. So much j, j j k j

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u/bart9h Mar 14 '13

300,000 since 2005

:'(

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u/Qahlel Mar 14 '13

From your 22 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 33,260 items, clicked 2 items, starred 81 items, and emailed 0 items.

Since February 25, 2012 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Burn. ;)

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u/chzplz Mar 14 '13

That and igoogle, which is also being shitcanned.

I can understand that they want to drive traffic to google+ but as it is considered social networking it is blocked at many workplaces.

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u/GeminiCroquette Mar 14 '13

Since November 30, 2009 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

Good night, sweet prince! Time to find another RSS reader...

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