I just discovered that Google Reader will retire this summer:
When I think of moving the 872 websites I follow someplace else, I cringe. What are you going to do when Google Reader dies? What are the alternatives?
I tried Evernote but it’s clunky and not very visual.
I’ve been having the same crisis. It’s not as bad as 872, but it’s well over 300… 😦 If you come up with anything, I’d love to know. A friend of mine suggested this page: http://gizmodo.com/5990464/whats-the-best-rss-reader-not-named-google-reader
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And just what, he asked innocently, is google reader?
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It’s a website that lists all of the websites I follow and updates them in real-time. Very useful to people who follow many websites or blogs. Obviously, I can’t bookmark 872 websites and check them every day. Google Reader lets me know when somebody publishes something new.
I now have no idea how people will follow my blog. 😦
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Pretty sure Google reader has an export function somewhere that’ll let you get your website list in a file, and pretty sure a lot of other similar services will soon offer ways of using that file to easily rebuild your website list on those particular services.
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Yes, they are offering to export it.
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If it makes you feel better, I just get your blog directly in my email… Pretty easy. I use internet explorer for work though, so I’m looking to set up my firefox homepage to be a feed aggregator…
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I’m very sorry I keep inundating you with all these posts!!
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I suggest taking a look at Feedly. It replicates the Reader interface quite well and also has some additional options for viewing your feeds.
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I also heard recommendations for Feedly, although I haven’t tried it yet.
You can also sign the petition to open source the Reader and keep it going here:
http://keepgooglereader.com/
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Oh, great, thank you!
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Thank you, I will try Feedly.
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I use Thunderbird, which is good offline reader if you don’t need it for multiple devices. There’s something called Thunderbird Portable, which I think backs up the state of your feeds to a cloud drive, but I haven’t tried it.
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In case there are other Linux users in here: I’ve been using Liferea for years. A disadvantage would be that it’s a program you install rather than a service you get from a website, so you can’t exactly check your feeds from a cybercafe on the fly. An advantage would be that it’s a program you install rather than a service you get from a website, so there’s no chance of a Google Reader being pulled on you.
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In order to prepare for the impending doom of Google Reader Ive just started messing around with Feed Demon. From what I can tell so far it allows for syncing with Google Reader (but I don’t know what would happen if you had the sync enabled when GR goes offline in July) or you can import your feed info from other sources. The interface is comparable to GR so hopefully it won’t be too much of a transition.
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I am trying out these two free Mac RSS readers as possible replacements for GR.
They each work quite well, afaict.
NetNewsWire ( http://netnewswireapp.com/ )
Vienna ( http://www.vienna-rss.org/ )
I manually downloaded all my subscriptions from GR by selecting the Import/Export tab under “Reader Settings”. Then I imported the subscriptions.xml file from Google into each RSS reader program.
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