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Re:RIP Google Reader by chippy on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:37PM (#26582357)
It was an app but with a network effect around it. All the replacements seem to have no community.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by crazygringo on Thursday March 25, 2021 @01:05PM (#26582706)
What was the network effect or community?

I thought it was just an RSS reader.

Were there forums or commenting on posts or something? I don't remember anything at all like that.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by btouellette on Thursday March 25, 2021 @01:19PM (#26582866)
Yes you could follow friends who could republish from their feeds onto a feed you could subscribe to and eventually it supported comments on those items which would allow discussion within their community. Discoverability and community which hasn't been replicated with the scattered userbase after it was killed.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by ip34162 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:29PM (#26583672)
Wow that sounds awesome.
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Re:RIP Google Reader by hattar on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:38PM (#26595386)
It was
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