Quora has a massive list of all alternatives to Reader:
[url]http://www.quora.com/Google-Reader/What-are-the-current-multiplatform-2013-besides-the-ones-listed-below-alternatives-to-Google-Reader-where-I-can-transfer-my-starred-items-feeds-and-unread-items-In-response-to-A-second-spring-of-cleaning?__snids__=105010833&__nsrc__=5[/url]
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;39905630]holy shit are you kidding
google reader is like the center of my internet for me, i have hundreds of subscriptions[/QUOTE]
I understand Google's reasoning behind shutting it down, but it's really damaging their reputation.
How do I know that when a new Google product comes out that I can depend on it long term?
That's the downside to being web-based I guess.
[QUOTE=smurfy;39904995]It's an RSS reader[/QUOTE]
What's an RSS reader?
Only decent alternative I've found is [url]http://feedafever.com[/url]
And it's got several downsides
- Paid
- Takes many tweaks to look/function like google reader (depending on how you used reader)
- Needs own server
FUCK.
My precious Google Reader...
...don't go...
*sniff sniff*
hahaha this probably fucked over so many librarians' lesson plans
So I'd like to switch over to google currents, but it has no official web app whatsoever, no way to add feeds from anything but my phone.. Does anyone know of a PC service which can use my currents account as it's feed, or would using currents mean that i'd effectively have no connected RSS reader on my PC?
[QUOTE=jalb;39906648]I understand Google's reasoning behind shutting it down, but it's really damaging their reputation.
How do I know that when a new Google product comes out that I can depend on it long term?
That's the downside to being web-based I guess.[/QUOTE]
As I mentioned, I don't like to depend on [I]any[/I] web-based application. I only trust what's actually on my hard drive.
Oh man that's really annoying I have used Reader for years.
I am quite pissed at this, because last year (or was it the year before that?) when they announced they were going to shut iGoogle down by the end of 2013 in one of their reasons posts they said that most of iGoogle functionality can be replaced by Google Reader. Even then I was pretty sure closing down iGoogle was a subtle move to get people to go with Chrome, now I'm even more certain.
GOD DAMNIT.
I've been using this for years, it works great and allows me to sync all my feeds between my devices/browsers/readers/toasters.
Fuck.
Wow, this fucking sucks. Reader is literally my portal to the web. Opening Reader is the very first thing I do when I open Chrome if my extension shows unread articles. Most importantly, though, it syncs with the Android app and I check that constantly when I'm out of the house.
I have no idea why they'd shut this down when there's no comparable Google alternative. This is the shitty side of Google to me; they just don't seem to care about their user base sometimes. They seem to think everyone can fit into their new, strange ideas of what they consider "improvements". You'd think changes like these would be based on only a small minority being upset, but last I checked just about everyone ever hates every new YouTube layout. It would be nice if they checked with us before they did this kind of shit.
If they intend Currents to be a replacement for Reader, they're very, very wrong. Until Currents gets a desktop version, I won't even bother with it. Guess I'll try Feedly. Their layout feels so cluttered, though. The Android app is even worse, goddamn.
Kind of expected since they were also killing off iGoogle. Moved to Netvibes a while ago and I can't complain so far, it does everything I want it to.
you have plenty of time to prepare and migrate
they won't
first time I've heard about it, seems like a neat idea that I'd like to use.
I have moved to [url=http://www.feedly.com]Feedly[/url], they allow you to import your Google Reader feeds into feedly.
[url]http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/[/url]
Feedly's mobile app looks terrible though and is impossible to navigate.
What the fuck, Google, stop shutting down all my favorite services. iGoogle was my home page and has been for years since I even knew it existed, and then you shut it down, so I switched to google reader and now you're shutting IT down, too? Fuck you. So many people still use it. I don't even know how I'm gonna get all my content after this, I suppose I'll have to manually check 80 different websites now.
[editline]14th March 2013[/editline]
What I need is an app that looks like google reader, not all this weird card shit like how websites like Pinterest look like, I fucking hate that. It's so clunky and hard to navigate, google reader was the apex of an RSS feed to me, and nothing else can replace it.
God this makes me sad
Goddamnit, I liked everything about it. It was a good Google product!
Just add a tiny ad and it makes money again from their limited (but loyal) userbase.
From what you guys are saying it sounds like something interesting. Perhaps they just didn't advertise it enough? Quite ironic.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;39909695]you have plenty of time to prepare and migrate[/QUOTE]
But to what? Nothing is as good as Google Reader
Damn, I was just setting up a Rainmeter extension for this yesterday, seemed like such a good idea.
[QUOTE=Shugo;39909365]Wow, this fucking sucks. Reader is literally my portal to the web. Opening Reader is the very first thing I do when I open Chrome if my extension shows unread articles. Most importantly, though, it syncs with the Android app and I check that constantly when I'm out of the house.
I have no idea why they'd shut this down when there's no comparable Google alternative. This is the shitty side of Google to me; they just don't seem to care about their user base sometimes. They seem to think everyone can fit into their new, strange ideas of what they consider "improvements". You'd think changes like these would be based on only a small minority being upset, but last I checked just about everyone ever hates every new YouTube layout. It would be nice if they checked with us before they did this kind of shit.
If they intend Currents to be a replacement for Reader, they're very, very wrong. Until Currents gets a desktop version, I won't even bother with it. Guess I'll try Feedly. Their layout feels so cluttered, though. The Android app is even worse, goddamn.[/QUOTE]
Weird UI changes (plus nagging me for my nonexistant mobile phone number) is why I decided to switch from GMail's webmail to IMAP as much as I could. Also ditched Google Docs; the only feature there useful to me was the advanced word count (e.g. sentences per paragraph) which has been deprecated with the 'new and IMPROVED!' version.
I imagine if you'll go to the Google support forum right now there will be lots of people screaming "DON'T SHUT IT DOWN!" and one or two employees saying "Oh, we'll take your thoughts INTO CONSIDERATION!" while I imagine rubbing their hands together gleefully and laughing at the poor customers who definitely aren't going to win this time.
I tried to try TheOldReader and NewsBlur but they seem to be clogged down by all the new users appearing. So I went with Feedly. It's pretty damn good.
Apparently I've read 247,983 items since July 2009. Currently have 156 subscriptions to various sites about games, music, art, architecture... Do most of my reading on the Reeder iPad app, I love it. The dev of Reeder just said that it won't die with Google Reader, so hopefully people will come up with a suitable alternative.
whoa i thought it was like a text to speech thing
I use currents instead of Reader, it's a lot better.
[editline]14th March 2013[/editline]
Except for the no desktop app thing, but they're probably going to make a chrome app for it some day.
Darn shame too. I used it for managing my podcasts. Oh well.
got it confused with the pdf reader
never knew it existed
I like Feedly.
Syncs across desktop and mobile, integrates with Google Reader (so everything will work out of the box) and they have their own system set up for when Google Reader shuts down so the transition will be seamless. It seems to find a middle ground between the magazine-style readers like Flipboard and the simplicity of Google Reader. You can choose between tile view, magazine view, list view, etc. Android app is really nice as well.
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