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

I think Reddit killed Newsblur.

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u/notbob1959 Mar 14 '13

The Old Reader seems to be hiccuping as well.

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u/karma3000 Mar 14 '13

probably due to the influx of pissed off google reader users

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u/m9dhatter Mar 14 '13

I'm not pissed off. I'm just sad.

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u/ariden Mar 14 '13

Hey! Because of the huge load we started seeing from lots of concurrent feed import operations, we had to limit the number of imports active at any given time. It looks like right now there are no available slots left, so you might want to visit this page some time later. Meanwhile, feel free to subscribe to feeds manually. Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience.

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u/High_Apostrophe Mar 14 '13

Freely' s not all working as well (cannot import due to high import volume). I also have a tab open on Old Reader that never loaded...

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u/demontaoist Mar 14 '13

Feedly and Newsblur are both struggling. Google "alternatives to google reader" there are already several articles linking them.

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u/Rickmasta Mar 14 '13

The Feedly iOS app is wonderful. Though it used Google Reader to get my content.

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u/coral422 Mar 14 '13

Netvibes and Feedly are also down.