So Google Reader is being discontinued.

What a load of bollox

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/14/alternatives-to-google-reader/

Yeah, not great news. I use Reader pretty regularly as it gets me 'round the firewalls at work.

You got to be fucking kidding me.

 

Take Facebook or Twitter or some shit instead. I need my rss feeds.

Edited March 14, 2013 by Ceerial

I'm giving Netvibes a try in the face of this (and the igoogle situation)

 

Confused at the multitude of articles popping up putting forward the idea that twitter has rendered rss redundant. I really don't understand the logic behind that.

 

Of course, the real reason (i think) G is getting rid of the reader is that they want to drive traffic back to content-originating websites so they can sell more advertising.

FFS, I use it to easily manage/pipe all my feeds into Flipboard, can't believe they're ditching it! Not impressed.

Yeah that sucks, and I access it by having it on my iGoogle homepage, which is also going away in November :(

I use it every day; I usually have it open as a pinned tab.

 

here's an article about alternatives to google reader:

http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives

ironically trending on twitter

 

how do you even compare clear and organised rss feed with random tweet poop with an occasional interesting link/article/what-have-you?

rubbish. Igoogle is actually a very useful homepage.

ahh what the fuck?!

 

 

  On 3/14/2013 at 9:43 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

I use it every day; I usually have it open as a pinned tab.

 

here's an article about alternatives to google reader:

http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives

 

 

thanks, will read

All of them fuckers ditching RSS..because it's simple, easy to implement, reliable..who needs that nowadays! I [like] to #lick @myass

 

tiny tiny RSS

http://tt-rss.org

 

pro: is a self hosted thing.

contra: is a self hosted thing.

 

ownCloud

http://owncloud.org/

 

just recently, my hoster introduced that as 1Click-installer thingy. RSS Reader should implemented in the next release. there is an app already available, but feels a bit alpha-ish

 

arrghhh

Started using The Old Reader, which is pretty much identical to google reader.

  On 3/15/2013 at 8:37 AM, feltcher said:

rubbish. Igoogle is actually a very useful homepage.

There was a notice on that page for a couple of months saying iGoogle was gonna stop at the end of this year (November maybe ?), but that seems to have vanished now so yeah I don't know if that's going too ?

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:01 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 8:37 AM, feltcher said:

rubbish. Igoogle is actually a very useful homepage.

There was a notice on that page for a couple of months saying iGoogle was gonna stop at the end of this year (November maybe ?), but that seems to have vanished now so yeah I don't know if that's going too ?

Its November 1st 2013

I have tried Reeder and Feedly today.

 

I don't really like Reeder. But Feedly is quite nice, I really like its interface.

 

I'm not sure how to import my subscriptions permanently though, it only connects/syncs with my my google reader account.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Ceerial

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:17 PM, Ceerial said:

I have tried Reeder and Feedly today.

 

I don't really like Reeder. But Feedly is quite nice, I really like it's interface.

 

I'm not sure how to import my subscriptions permanently though, it only connects/syncs with my my google reader account.

You download a XML file from google called takeout. Then use that, usually labeled subscriptions.xml

Yeah, I've read the article, and I have downloaded the xml file. But I can't really figure out how to import the file into the app.

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:05 PM, chassis said:

 

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:01 PM, mcbpete said:

 

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 8:37 AM, feltcher said:

rubbish. Igoogle is actually a very useful homepage.

There was a notice on that page for a couple of months saying iGoogle was gonna stop at the end of this year (November maybe ?), but that seems to have vanished now so yeah I don't know if that's going too ?

 

 

Its November 1st 2013

 

 

I thought so, I'm just wondering why they've taken down the notice to say it's going. By removing it it sounds like they changed their minds about closing it (which I'm guessing isn't the case)

  On 3/15/2013 at 9:01 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:05 PM, chassis said:

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 7:01 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 8:37 AM, feltcher said:

rubbish. Igoogle is actually a very useful homepage.

There was a notice on that page for a couple of months saying iGoogle was gonna stop at the end of this year (November maybe ?), but that seems to have vanished now so yeah I don't know if that's going too ?

 

Its November 1st 2013

 

I thought so, I'm just wondering why they've taken down the notice to say it's going. By removing it it sounds like they changed their minds about closing it (which I'm guessing isn't the case)

Say it for me, maybe you dismissed the message. Which you can do with most google things.

and on we adapt!

Goodnight sweet prince.

So Feedly seems a perfect replacement for Google Reader, but is there an alternative to iGoogle ? It was nice to have the useful bits of about a half dozen different sites just on the one page

I've been using commafeed as my replacement. it's really similar to google reader, so the transition was pretty painless; I can still use all my keyboard shortcuts. you've got until july 15th to export your google reader data with google takeout if you haven't done so yet.

I'm using Feedly and loving it. The iOS app is great to use and so much better than the mobile version of Reader was.