As you may have heard, Google has announced that it is going to shut down Google Reader in July 2013.
Apparently Google wants to focus on more important things - like making magic glasses, self-driving cars, and snooping on people's home Wifi hotspots - so it's the end of the road for the company's RSS reader.
This has caused much gnashing of teeth online - especially from those who like to follow the latest, breaking news on the internet, and use Google Reader to follow their favourite blogs and news sites.
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Migrated to Feedly already. Takes a little getting used to, but I guess it will become second nature in no time. My only complaint at the moment is there is no ability to view feeds with oldest first in their Android App. This is important to me as i dont want to miss any news from my feeds and like to see them in order they are posted... Still it seems to me that it is currently the best alternative.
I moved to Feedly. Your newsletter cannot be even compared to Google Reader.
In Google Reader you see all articles as they appear, with newsletter you will see one day and it's usually in HTML and looks bad with some email clients or phones.
Hi Mika
I like Feedly too. Seems pretty slick.
We're not suggesting that our email newsletter is a replacement for a good RSS reader - but it is an alternative way for people to make sure they don't miss our stories. Some people just prefer to get an email newsletter - so why not offer it to them? :)
Actually I only follow naked sec. by rss .
FeedDemon. Just get FeedDemon and you won't have to mess with "the cloud."
ownCloud is releasing a news reader soon http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479
I notice that the email as sent is massively HTML - is there a text-only version for those of us that disallow all html in our mail readers due to security concerns? it's totally unreadable as it stands now. :(
Hi Mike, no text-only version I'm afraid. You can still follow our stories using our RSS feed or on Twitter :)
So far all the alternatives I've tried pretty much suck when compared to Reader. I'm really sorry to see it go.
With that out of the way, my only option seems to be setting up my own "Reader" and there are a couple of potential candidates. Tiny Tiny RSS seems like it might work and I've set up an internal RSS site to track security feeds based on Managing News which is a Drupal application. It works but it seems to have gone stale but could be so much better. Oh well. I guess I'll try TT-RSS.