Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by lacker on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:11PM (#16285411)

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly.

I also miss the way Slashdot made me feel near the dawn of the internet. Before I had the internet, I got my tech news from CNN or from newspapers. Once I got the internet and could read Slashdot, that was just amazing.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by sien on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:16PM (#16285449)

What did you try?

I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by detcader on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:23PM (#16285516)

+1 for Inoreader. After Google Reader shut down there was a lull where no RSS reader was good enough or similar enough to be satisfactory, but Inoreader is now the proper replacement for me

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by jasonjayr on Thursday February 08, 2018 @07:35AM (#16331706)

How is Inoreader sustained? The account is free, but TINSTAFL ... is their an upcharge for some services? Are they doing in-system advertising?

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by dhardy on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:11PM (#16285934)

It has been a while since I landed on Digg but I tried quite a few web based apps including Feedly, The Old Reader and several more that have already shut down. I also tried a few native tools like Safari's built in reader and Reeder on MacOS.

At the end of the day, nothing has been as good as Google Reader... at least not for the way I want to use it.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by lacker on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:24PM (#16295072)

I tried Feedly and a couple others, but I think I gave up in despair before Inoreader came out. I should give it another go ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by dhardy on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:27PM (#16285539)

I feel your pain on loosing Google Reader. I have tried dozens of replacements and finally landed at https://digg.com/reader if you can believe that... Also, I am sure you have seen them but just incase you haven't - https://theoldreader.com/home was super similar to Google Reader.

Alas neither of these are the same but perhaps they will be "good enough".

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by lokedhs on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:28PM (#16287603)

Same here. In fact, I landed here right now from Digg Reader.

Reading the HN feed using RSS is much nicer than going to the main page.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by sitebuilderone on Friday February 02, 2018 @07:12PM (#16295287)

Thanks for digg/reader - liking the simplicity

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by wink on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:07PM (#16286387)

I've heard this a ton of times, but I really can't grasp it. I've used RSS readers before, switched to Google Reader because it was better and didn't have a problem adjusting to another one after it went down.

But I've experienced this with other things, like for example I've been using Thunderbird since not long after Firefox was still called Phoenix and haven't manage to find anything close to a replacement, so maybe I shouldn't even speak up. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by kimusan on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:33AM (#16289041)

I shifted to Feedly and it easily imported all my google reader feeds. Today I have a couple of thousand feeds in Feedly and still find it a bliss to read through them. Their mobile app is quite good too. I ended up buying their Pro lifetime subscription and it has been worth the money sofar.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by MrMember on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:38PM (#16285632)

I use Newsblur now (and even pay $25 or something for the yearly subscription) and it's pretty good but I still miss Google Reader.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by chadgeidel on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:44PM (#16286219)

Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by lousken on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:38PM (#16292381)

I've managed to replace it with inoreader.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by edgarvaldes on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:20PM (#16285495)

It is interesting that you went from longer-form blogs to twitter.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by CodeTheInternet on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:40PM (#16285648)

Feedly is where I have migrated to, but I too miss Google Reader.

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