“Who killed Google Reader?”
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever
Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.David Pierce (The Verge)
Michael Labowicz
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jared Lipton
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Brandon
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •what a read... 😢
And the best part "Almost nothing ever hits Google scale, which is why Google kills almost everything."
novettam
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Interesting read.
Personally, I moved to feedly after the shutdown and never looked back.
Curiously, the rss feeds I was subscribed to, at the time I migrated from reader to feedly are about 98% of the feeds I am subscribed today.
Things changed a bit since then, I'm using a mix of feedly, google news, and reddit to stay up to date on my topics of interest across the internet.
Reddit had the biggest gain as a % of my sources of news.
That makes specially mad about what is going on.
Alison Meeks
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •testman
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Commafeed is a very good open source self-hosted replacement for Google Reader.
Has been my #RSS reader for many years now. It used whole width of my screen when other readers did not. And it even got an interface refresh recently.
https://www.commafeed.com/
#Commafeed #SelfHosting #OpenSource
CommaFeed
www.commafeed.comJoe DiMaggio
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I still miss Google Reader.
I tried Feedly for awhile, but it did something to tick me off that I can't remember.
For now, I use Feedbro (a browser extension). It also has issues, but I can live with it.
If I could find some simple self-hosted solution, I'd be all over it.
Henry Edward Hardy
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •aaronsw, we miss you.
@Gargron
Dan Thornton
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Still miss it - and while there are plenty of good current alternatives for feed readers, it was the critical mass of social interaction that made it so good...
I'd love to see what all my friends are reading, enjoying and sharing without having to delve into social networks and everything else that entails - but sadly I think it'd be almost impossible to get enough using RSS feed readers again...
Bill D
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I was a heavy user of Google Reader.
No I have my own free selfhosted RSS reader server with Tiny-Tiny-RSS (TT-RSS).
https://tt-rss.org/
Tiny Tiny RSS
tt-rss.orgLeisureguy
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jamie Booth
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •this is the truest quote ever:
“If Google made the iPod,” he says, “they would have called it the Google Hardware MP3 Player For Music, you know?”
Justified & Caremad
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •That was the birth of #freshrss
#opensource #selfhosted #php