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Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader?
Despite a hue and cry from disappointed users, Google has not made any moves to reverse its decision to close down Google Reader on the first of July, just a few weeks away. Despite the name — and the functions it started out with in 2001 — Reader has become more than a simple interface to RSS feeds; Wikipedia gives a concise explanation of how it evolved from just a few features to a full-blown platform of its own, incorporating social-sharing features of the kind that have become expected in many online apps. Those features have morphed over the years along with Google's larger social strategies, along the way upsetting some readers who'd grown used to certain features. If you're a Google Reader user, will you be replacing it with another aggregator?
I'll go for a self-hosted tinytinyRSS: http://tt-rss.org/
Never cared much for all the social features, I like keeping up with websites and being absolutely sure I haven't missed anything.
I'm not sure why I sign into google anymore. No need for reader. Youtube favs I suppose.
The thing that put me off feedly was the requirement for a browser extension. Why on earth would you need a browser extension for what ought to be a simple website?
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
Check out http://www.ighome.com
It doesn't look quite as nice as iGoogle, but it's close enough.
Agreed. I switched to Feedly a few hours after Google told me they didn't want me to get news from them anymore. I think it's pretty good. The thing I miss from GR is using 'n' and 'p' to read the next and previous news stories. Feedly's documentation swears that it supports keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't work for me on any of my machines. The layout is usually pretty nice. I'd like more features, but the basic implementation is a satisfactory replacement for Reader.