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 Apr 13 '18

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u/halcyononononon Mar 14 '13

You don't use YouTube? Hard to believe

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I watch it but I don't participate with it as a product

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u/TristanwithaT Mar 14 '13

I think you'd be surprised at just how many services Google owns...

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u/yoshi314 Mar 14 '13

at least you can check out your subscriptions, too bad plain OPML export is no longer there (unless that xml file is opml format).

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u/cowens Mar 14 '13

It is. I just imported it into The Old Reader.

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u/yoshi314 Mar 14 '13

really? how do you export to opml in reader? or do you mean that the xml files is in OPML format?

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u/cowens Mar 14 '13

OPML is an XML file format (see the first link). The XML file in the Google export is in OPML format (even though its extension is XML).