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Who killed Google Reader? (www.theverge.com)
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[-] canpolat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] superschurke@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

Isn't the problem with RSS nowadays getting good sources? What's your reader of choice and how do you use it?

[-] canpolat@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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