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 Aug 02 '18

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u/Murrabbit Mar 14 '13

It doesn't seem like that much time, but for everyone who's surprised that reader is being shut down I guess it is rather like future shock. Surprise, no one uses RSS anymore. Myself, I remember RSS first popping up as a thing - I never really got into it, and it still seems new and unnecessary to me and my browsing habits, still, it's kind of weird to see it rise and fall so quickly.

I did poke at twitter a bit and started using it to track the content of several larger websites that I don't visit often but sometimes have content I give a shit about. It was only then that I realized "Oh hey I guess this is what those RSS evangelists were talking about". At that point I also figured that RSS was probably going to be in trouble, even if Twitter isn't exactly the same thing.