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Re:RSS Beat Microsoft by tonkinai on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:27AM (#45168745)
Man, RSS still brings me so much nostalgia. Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?
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Re:RSS Beat Microsoft by qw on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:08AM (#45169271)
> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.

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Re:RSS Beat Microsoft by kevstev on Monday September 08, 2025 @12:25PM (#45170265)
Feedly works more or less the same. I have no issues with it.
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