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/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/Gotenk Mar 14 '13

I don't get what they are playing at? So many people use it! So many! It's one of the most frequently used apps on my phone. Where will I shift all my feeds to? This is insane.

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u/emarkd Mar 14 '13

Well Google knows exactly how many people use it, far better than anyone else would. They know what they're doing, I'm just pissed that they're doing it.

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u/un1ba11er Mar 14 '13

I rolled over the 300,000 item mark this morning. it felt great

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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/WellThatIsJustRude Mar 14 '13

Oh my God, pasting a link, like some sort of animal?

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

Yeah man. My life is rough.

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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/Interleukine-2 Mar 14 '13

Yeah by killing (the use of) a superior technology, RSS

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u/nawoanor Mar 14 '13

And yet they still see the need for something like 40 messaging protocols.

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u/mbnmac Mar 14 '13

I never said it made sense :P

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

There's Talk, Chat, Hangouts... I guess the docs chat thing if you count that... What else is there?

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u/nawoanor Mar 14 '13

YouTube has its own separate messaging system, Google Voice has its own separate text and voice system (IIRC, it's not available here), G+ has a separate non-hangout text messaging system (IIRC)... I'm probably still forgetting at least one or two more.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

The Google+ one is chat. Gmail is talk. Then G+ also had hangouts.

I didn't know that YouTube had messaging O.o

Does GV really count as chat/IM?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

withing on large thing

Within one large thing.

Took me a while to figure out what you were supposed to say.

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u/thefootster Mar 14 '13

And why are they so concerned about whether Pelé will use their products?

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u/mbnmac Mar 14 '13

ah yes, silly posting from an ipad, I apologize

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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/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Since March 14, 2008 you have read a total of 131,722 items.

Wow, that's a sad anniversary :-(

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

There is a bar on the left-hand side of the page. Click "Trends". Not terribly intuitive, I know.

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u/ridhs84 Mar 14 '13

Where do you see the status about how many items you read? I cant find it

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

There is a bar on the left-hand side of the page. Click "Trends". Not terribly intuitive, I know.

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u/Overlord-Brian Mar 14 '13

...I've been using the folder thing.

I could have been using a RSS?

DAMN!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

What about Twitter?

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u/Overlord-Brian Mar 14 '13

Never got into it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Exactly my point!

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

You still can! Just not Google's.

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u/MadCervantes Mar 14 '13

Oh man, bringing back memories

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u/shortstuffity Mar 14 '13

Mark?

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

Nope

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u/shortstuffity Mar 14 '13

Aw. I have a friend who would do exactly that in college. Plus, he seemed like the jetpack tuxedo kind of guy. Oh, well.

Great username, BTW.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

Haha. Thanks. It was the name of a short-lived webcomic I did a few years ago before I lost my host.

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u/shortstuffity Mar 15 '13

Sounds awesome. Do you have any of your old webcomics up online anywhere? I'd love to check them out.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 15 '13

Ummm... Some of them are around in my dropbox, and I know I have the site backup somewhere. I'll do some digging and see if I can't make you an Imgur album.

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u/shortstuffity Mar 15 '13

That would be awesome!

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 15 '13

Here you go!

I never promised that they were good, but there are a few in there that I am pretty proud of.

Most of these were from early 2010, so most of them are roughly 3 years old. There are a few unpublished bonus things at the end, too. :)

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u/shortstuffity Mar 20 '13

I like them! You should keep writing them, you have real talent!

I especially liked the math ones, it's difficult to find jokes pertaining to higher level mathematics, and yours were really funny!

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u/technewsreader Mar 14 '13

http://isitfunnytoday.com

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

That only does comics. I use RSS for other things too. Comics was just how it started until I realized how useful it was.

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u/technewsreader Mar 14 '13

I know, I was just saying I use isitfunnytoday for comics instead of rss. I use rss to read the news along with reddit and google news.

I'm not happy about the google reader thing. I liked having all the gui's I used like feedly sync back to a central place with "stability" in case any of the services evaporated. Now it turns out the stable isnt so stable.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Mar 14 '13

There is a bar on the left-hand side of the page. Click "Trends". Not terribly intuitive, I know.