RIP Google Reader

Re:RIP Google Reader by llarsson on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:29PM (#26584386)

I still remember being swept away by Google Wave. Such a cool idea at the time, I thought.

That was such a good idea compared to Google Plus. Your content, your comments, just aggregated.

They could have pulled it off, too, I am sure. They just didn't want to.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by cheschire on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:37PM (#26584458)

Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but Wave seemed super buggy and laggy to me at the time.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by kybernetikos on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:16PM (#26584841)

We used it for architectural discussions and exploring ideas. I'd be hard pressed to think of something that was better for that.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by skinkestek on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:51AM (#26590952)

For some reason I never saw it working.

Does anyone have a link to a video of it actually being in use?

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Re:RIP Google Reader by henhouse on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:34PM (#26597830)

https://youtu.be/eKUAqNGVwX0

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Re:RIP Google Reader by edoceo on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:54PM (#26584624)

It was crappy but it's intention was good.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by eythian on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:12AM (#26591112)

It wasn't the fastest, but I think that now browser (and CPU) tech has moved on since then, it'd probably be a lot smoother. I remember using it once to coordinate specs on a small contract job and it worked pretty well for that.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by atmosx on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:35AM (#26590841)

I liked wave a lot as well.

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