When Google Reader finally close its doors , it shoved K ofteary - eyed RSS fansinto internet , adrift , where we lam around desperately for a suitable substitute . Many servicesrose to the challenge , but the incoming moving ridge was a lot to handle . Too much for one of our preferred alternative — The Old Reader — which is contract a varlet from Googsand shutting downas well .
https://gizmodo.com/saying-goodbye-to-google-reader-my-own-little-corner-o-602166341
Technically , The Old Reader is n’t going totally offline , but it ’s scale back so far that it might as well be . The lecturer is going private , and all you Johnny - come - recently ’s who joined up after March 13th ( when Google denote the coming RSS - pacolypse ) are out of luck , unless you already ponied up some bitcoin to serve out .
Since we set up first public variant almost a year ago up until March 2013 we have been working on The Old Reader in “ normal ” manner . … Last week difficultness level was changed to “ hell ” in every possible aspect we could reckon , we have been sleep strip for 10 days and this impacts us way too much . We have to look back .
… I personally spent my own first wedding anniversary fix the migration last Sunday .
Google Reader ’s drug user - base might have been small for the search giant ’s purposes , but it ’s still quite the load for anyone who is n’t Google . This is a bummer . A sad , deeply ironical bummer . But then RSS readerin ’ ai n’t for the deliquium of warmness . [ The Old ReaderviaThe Next Web ]
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