Re:RIP Google Reader
by perardi on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:19PM
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1. Way to make me feel old.
2. It was, by far, the dominant reader. Nobody other big corporation† decided to make a top-level project that surfaced feed reading like this. So people remember it fondly, because it was the heyday of RSS, before Twitter and Facebook took over news delivery.
†OK, fine, I think Apple did a thing where you could read RSS feeds in Mail.
2. It was, by far, the dominant reader. Nobody other big corporation† decided to make a top-level project that surfaced feed reading like this. So people remember it fondly, because it was the heyday of RSS, before Twitter and Facebook took over news delivery.
†OK, fine, I think Apple did a thing where you could read RSS feeds in Mail.