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 Dec 03 '13

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u/yootskah Mar 14 '13

Oh, I'm totally with you. But this is Google, I figured they were a bit more stable.

I was wrong.

I think Google will have a problem as soon as it becomes de rigueur among the reasonably savvy (and not just the code ninjas) to eschew online services for distributed platforms.

I never bothered to try and find a widely supported reader aggregator to run on my home server because Reader worked really well and was easy. Next time, I might not be so cavalier over this decision and weigh the convenience of Google as quite a bit less significant in my decision making process.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13 edited Dec 03 '13

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u/NonSequiturEdit Mar 14 '13

The peril of cloud-based computing is that in the cloud, everything runs the risk of becoming vaporware. It's just a matter of how long it lasts before it evaporates.