Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
  • canpolat@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was upset when Reader was killed. But looking back and seeing what Google has become over time, I think it was for the best. Now we have entire companies that only do one thing: RSS, and they are good at it. If Reader was still a thing, I’m afraid it would have extinguished RSS.

    Names matter, and Reader told everyone that it was for reading when it could have been for so much more. “If Google made the iPod,” he says, “they would have called it the Google Hardware MP3 Player For Music, you know?”

    This is funny, but I think Reader was a good name. At least it reflected what I want to do with the product.

      • canpolat@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I use InoReader. Most of the sources I want/need has RSS feeds. For the rest I create feeds using Feed43. I use it daily and that’s how I get news, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds (via Nitter), Reddit/Lemmy posts.

  • sculd@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That was really the moment people realized Google is going downhill.

    I moved off Gmail, GDrive. Use DDG for personal stuff and only Google at work. The only irreplaceable thing seems to be YouTube but whatever. I am not trusting any new product from Google.

  • abhibeckert@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Google didn’t just kill Reader that day, they killed my relationship with Google.

    There have been plenty of services I used at Google that they killed however Reader was the one that didn’t have any good alternative. It was the one that hurt the most, and I don’t think I have signed up for a single Google service since the day Reader was killed.