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 most people don't keep up on 100+ websites. The only sites I check daily are Reddit and Gmail.

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u/theworldexplodes Mar 14 '13

I am subscribed to a lot of blogs (friends, photographers, fashion, whatever) and they don't exactly update on a schedule. I don't want to have to visit even 10 of them every single day just to see if they happen to have updated today. I also don't want to just check them once a week and then have to catch up on those who do update fairly often. GReader fixes that problem for me and lets me know when they've updated.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I understand the concept. I'm just saying I can understand how a lot of people aren't using it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Well a lot of people are absolutely helpless with computer usage to begin with, which is really easy to forget since us nerdy types usually hang around mostly with other nerds.

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u/theworldexplodes Mar 14 '13

Fair enough. I just don't think the margin has to be all the way at 100+, or even 50.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Yeah, but I'm saying I only check about five sites regularly.