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  1. Re:How long will it last though? by Demonoid-Penguin · · Score: 1 · on Google's Waze Jumps Into the Ride-Sharing Business

    My main problem with this is it's a Google sub-project, and as much as I love their core products, they do have a habit of pulling things as soon as you become dependant on them (reader, AppInventor, and health for three examples I did depend on until they vanished). OK any company can pull a product, but it seems to be a favourite Google pass time.

    Fortunately your poor investment in something simply because it cost you nothing doesn't stop others from using the results of projects like this to test their assumptions on the subject - or build upon the knowledge gained from the outcomes.

    Google Reader alternatives:-

    AppInventor alternatives:-

    "Health" alternatives? WTF do you mean - maybe you could do your own research? Likely it'd take less time and effort than whining because you depended on something free (cost, contribution, and commitment wise).

    I remember when the annual Melbourne show meant free show bags full of goodies - there was lollies, and icecreams, and chocolate bars, t-shirts, and hats. Streets Icecreams, Cadbury... all utter bastards. Now I have to pay money for junk food! [mutter, mutter, whine, piss on furniture, whine].

  2. Re:Who knows how long it will last? by SpeZek · · Score: 1 · on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+

    So roll your own RSS feed aggregator.

    Personally, I find that Selfoss is a fantastic replacement for Google Reader.

  3. rsslounge^Wselfoss by gwolf · · Score: 2 · on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader?

    Several months before Google's announcement, I was fed up with some details regarding Google Reader (namely, going always through *their* servers according to *their* conditions). Given I am a systems adminstrator and have the ability (and little extra bandwidth) to self-host that service for myself, I installed a rssLounge instance.

    I now learn rssLounge has been renamed to selfoss. I have yet to check this new version — but leaving minor glitches aside, rssLounge has me quite happy.

  4. Re:If applicable: host it yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader?

    Ah, I found out what happened to RSSLounge: it was superseded by the author's new project Selfoss. Probably also an alternative to check out, though a lot of project communication seem to be in German, which might be a problem for some :-) .

  5. SelfOSS by stuporglue · · Score: 2 · on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader?

    I wanted a web-based reader, and did some searching last night.

    I decided I wanted to go with a self-hosted option, and found SelfOSS. It's light-weight, PHP5 and the code is very clean. It can use MySQL or SQLite.

    It's a single-person reader, with one username/password supported.

    http://selfoss.aditu.de/

    You can see a live demo here: http://stuporglue.org/selfoss/

    The only downside so far is that with SQLite, the database locks when updates are running. This is fairly quick, but might be an issue for some people.

  6. If applicable: host it yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader?

    Self-hosting solutions are available, will never get canned in this manner, and are highly customizable. But, of course, require a place to host it.

    I've tried both Tiny Tiny RSS and RSSLounge before in an attempt to rid myself of the Google Reader addiction, but found them both lacking in some respects every time. Since Google Reader is disappearing though, I made a new attempt this morning.

    RSSLounge seems to have been abandoned a year or two ago, but perhaps it was stable enough (RSS aggregation is not nuclear science).

    Tiny Tiny RSS have some in my eyes quite horrible default settings, especially coming from Google Reader. The good news, however, is that it is configurable to mimic Google Reader quite closely. With some work with custom CSS rules it is quite close at a first glance.

    My Tiny Tiny RSS configuration:

    • Enable "Automatically expand articles in combined mode"
    • Enable "Combined feed display"
    • Long date format: "Y-m-d H:i"
    • Short date format: "Y-m-d H:i"
    • My custom RSS

    Last time I installed it on Debian I ran into enough caveats that it led me to write a guide for others to install it, but since then it has been included in the unstable repository. To install it, some manual work was still needed, though:

    • sudo aptitude install tt-rss libphp-simplepie #the second package is a correct dependency now, bug fixed very recently, so that should no longer be needed.
    • sudo vi /usr/share/tt-rss/www/config.php #Enter server URL. I also set SINGLE_USER_MODE=true per preference.
    • ln -s ../conf-available/50-tt-rss.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d #A bit weird by the Debian package to not put it directly in conf.d/
    • sudo vi tt-rss.local #This was for my local configuration. Needed a entry for Apache to give access to a directory outside of DocumentRoot. I also locked it to localhost access per preference.
    • sudo service apache2 reload
    • sudo vi /etc/default/tt-rss #Set DISABLED=0 to be able to start the service.
    • sudo service tt-rss start #Hopefully the aggregator will start fetching feeds.

    Then go to http://localhost/tt-rss and start configuring. All subscriptions can be exported from Google Reader and imported in Tiny Tiny RSS, keeping dirctory structure intact.

    I'll try to migrate fully to this solution now that Google apparently no longer wants my traffic :-) . I'd say I probably use Reader the most of all Google's services, including Search, Gmail, Youtube, etc., so the decision to can it is quite strange from my personal view.