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Re:RIP Google Reader by blakesterz on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:09PM (#26582010)
I guess you had to be there? "it's just like Google Reader" means it's NOT as good, but close enough. GR was solid and we LOVED it, especially the search. I think RSS readers are one of those things that some of us LOVE and we're still bitter that Google took it away. Maybe it was the first big thing Google cancelled? I know for me it was, and I've not trusted anything new from Google since. Maybe that's it... before they broke my heart with killing Reader I really believed they were different, that they really tried to "not be evil" and then POOF one day my favorite thing on the web was gone.

I guess you had to be there, I know it sounds ridiculous.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by treesknees on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:07PM (#26583442)
As others have said, it marked a turning point for how Google is perceived. It's not as though GR had 100k beta users like Stadia, it had nearly 5 million active users when it shut down. The closing marked the end of Google doing cool things because they're cool, and showed their true colors as a major corporation looking after profits first. Something that is pretty much a given opinion of them today.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by Can_Not on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:02PM (#26588361)
I never heard of google reader until long after it ended, but endless mountains of garbage claiming to be "just like X" is all too familiar.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by arunc on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:01PM (#26587719)
Well said. Coincidentally I was talking about GR to my wife and kid last night. It is a sad death indeed.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by mxfh on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:50PM (#26585888)
I miss search the most, no other replacement came even close. Like a searchable corpus of your curated library of stuff you're interested in.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by efreak on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:45PM (#26595472)
Why does nobody else benton the feature that local rss readers can't duplicate: the full history of the entire feed starting the first time it was indexed. Start up Google reader and for most feeds you've got the full history from day one.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by davidivadavid on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:47PM (#26588562)
Search was also the feature I missed in most replacements. Pretty happy with BazQux these days, though.
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