How are you coping with the death of the Internet?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

NO MORE GOOGLE READER.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

Some folks are moving to NewsBlur, but they are crushed under the load of tens of thousands of new users.

I have had no luck with Feedly, Pulse, Flipboard, etc. I want a curated list of every story at the sites I like (some of which only update 1-2 times a month) - NOT a magical river of stories that I may or may not want to read. Fuck other people's interests.

I also need something account-driven so I can sync reading progress across web and mobile.

And if you don't use Google Reader, how do you read the Internet?! Do you just go to websites and read stories from the websites directly? I find that literally unbelievable.

I'm so cold right now. Hold me. :-(

[Steve Contra]

What the fuck Google. 

[Polari]

I'm enjoying the meltdowns.

[Human Snorenado]

I'm enjoying the meltdowns.

Same.  The only thing that would freak white people out more would be if somehow they ended TED talks and also magically erased all the existing videos.

[Great Rumbler]

I've never used Google Reader before.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I literally visit Google Reader 20+ times a day. It is the #1 app position on my phone.

Outside of The Bore and Facebook/Twitter, it's the ONLY* site I visit. EVERYTHING is routed through Google Rreader. AVClub? Comics Alliance? The Verge? I haven't visited a news site in years. Like, since 2005.

(*Well, not counting Amazon when I buy something on Amazon, etc.)

[archnemesis]

Google Reader is awesome and ever since I started using it I save a lot of time by having it browse the web for me. It's not doing anything advanced, but it's a lot faster than using the standalone applications. I plan to try Feedly and see if that's an okay replacement.

Edit: Yeah, my habits are very similar to Treesong's. I basically only visit forums, newspapers, and work-related sites. Everything else goes through Google Reader.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

IT'S NOT

EDIT: Though, I think they may introduce a "Google Reader clone" mode now that GReader is going down.

[archnemesis]

What's wrong with Feedly? I visited it earlier today and was scared away by all the graphics.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Looks like Feedly has a "titles only" view for people (like me) who love words and hate pictures:

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-users-migrating-to-feedly/

Feedly ... might be okay. You can use j/k to scan through your feeds (MUST HAVE)

[Howard Alan Treesong]

when I see apps that let you pick "interests" but not sites, I want to curl up into a ball and die

I LIKE GAME

GIVE ME GAME

are people that mouthbreathing? they'll just read whatever garbage content is shoved down their throats indiscriminately?

[TakingBackSunday]

it'll be okay sweetie

[recursivelyenumerable]

when I see apps that let you pick "interests" but not sites, I want to curl up into a ball and die

I LIKE GAME

GIVE ME GAME

are people that mouthbreathing? they'll just read whatever garbage content is shoved down their throats indiscriminately?

+ aleph-omega

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I subscribe to MULTIPLE tumblrs that do nothing but post old screencaptures of 80s adventure games, Flipboard doesn't have my back on this one

[Positive Touch]

And if you don't use Google Reader, how do you read the Internet?! Do you just go to websites and read stories from the websites directly? I find that literally unbelievable.

wtf is google reader

i gave up on bookmarks a long time ago, and i really only go to social media sites nowadays and click on links that i see others recommend. its not consistent but its more interesting that looking at the same selection of sites over and over like i used to do.

[drew]

wtf was google reader?

[Rufus]

I am always surprised how many people don't use RSS feeds. God damned internet pedestrians.
You subscribe to a feed and henceforth get ALL updates to those sites pushed to you. It's like email, only without mail servers. You get the headline and a snippet of the entry, sometimes the entire entry. For instance: Every subreddit has a feed. Every news source has a feed. Podcasts, blogs, whatever. If it updates regularly it has a feed. Every day I scan through them and pick what I want to read in detail without the need to go to every single site individually, scanning it for anything new. It is so, so useful.
 
Seriously, fuck Google for shutting Reader down. I've already looked at Feedly and I guess it'll have to do. Hopefully they can get their own back end running without problems come July.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

And if you don't use Google Reader, how do you read the Internet?! Do you just go to websites and read stories from the websites directly? I find that literally unbelievable.

i gave up on bookmarks a long time ago, and i really only go to social media sites nowadays and click on links that i see others recommend. its not consistent but its more interesting that looking at the same selection of sites over and over like i used to do.

and as I said on Twitter

where the FUCK do you think your friends find interesting links to recommend? Google Fucking Reader.

[Bebpo]

bookmarks?

Fuck that, I memorize the url of all the sites I visit and type them into the address bar everytime.


You should see my typing of the dead skills

[Barry Egan]

is there something about this specific rss that only google can do?  It's kind of weird to me that there wouldn't 6 different feeds in the "Google Reader style" already out there.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

is there something about this specific rss that only google can do?  It's kind of weird to me that there wouldn't 6 different feeds in the "Google Reader style" already out there.

the problem is that Google bought up all the competitors in 2005-2009. so at this point, pretty much EVERY RSS app uses Google Reader as the backend for their feed aggregation and display. there are lots of different "skins" (Press, Feedly, Reeder) but all of them are running on top of Reader.

other sites (like Feedly) are trying to replicate the Reader functionality on the backend. however, without a single power player the size of Google we are definitely gonna be looking at market fragmentation and difficulty in synching web reading with multiple 3rd party clients, etc....

[Cormacaroni]

feed.ly is pretty cool but let's face it all this shit takes work and none of it is ideal. Sooooo many sites only allow a few preview lines of the article to load via RSS that you end up having to visit their site anyway. Like Treesong says, getting huge torrents of irrelevant shit is irritating too - I can't subscribe to ESPN's NBA opinion pieces, say, without also getting spammed with scores. Worse still is choosing categories like 'Technology' and getting links on every new satnav that comes out when I really only want (say) gfx card news. And if you go for auto-customization based on what you read (i.e. Zite) you quickly end up with an incredibly narrow range of articles - click on a few reviews of Amazing Spider-man and soon you only get film news pertaining to superhero movies.

Twitter + Pocket is a pretty killer combo but that relies upon you scanning your twitter for links all the time. Pulse has a decent way around this (by adding a section for links from your feed) but I spent far too long building it up on my OG iPad before they introduced syncing and now i can't be bothered touching it again.

[Rufus]

Google Reader is just the most popular one. A lot of competing services (if you can call them that) used it as a back end as well and even dedicated readers like FeedDemon used it to sync feeds across multiple devices.

[Van Cruncheon]

i use pulse.i am part of the problem. :-(

[naff]

I use Pulse also, never used G Reader..... No idea what I was missing out on so *shrug

[recursivelyenumerable]

bookmarks?

Fuck that, I memorize the url of all the sites I visit and type them into the address bar everytime.

are you still using Firefox 2.0 or something?

[Bebpo]

Nah, I switched over to chrome last year.

[Polari]

bookmarks?

Fuck that, I memorize the url of all the sites I visit and type them into the address bar everytime.


You should see my typing of the dead skills

Same. With the Awesome Bar in Firefox it's probably quicker than clicking bookmarks anyway.

[Rufus]

This has fuck all to do with bookmarks. :C

[Shaka Khan]

Oh my. I've been using Google Reader for as long as I can remember. I can't even remember the last time I visited an actual news site to read updates, this was even more true thanks to fetching extensions. I'm not as compulsively obsessed with checking my feed as I used to, but there was a time when I'd be checking almost every 30m-1h of every day.

However thanks to the constantly improved Feedly, I've made a full transition to their desktop and phone apps a year or so ago, so seeing them trying to be on top of this pleases me. They've got every type of view and transition animation a picky person like me desires. And on top of this, their smartphone/tablet app has nifty gestures for easy navigation and a native clutter-removing feature.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

If it so popular, why are they getting rid of it?

[tiesto]

I subscribe to MULTIPLE tumblrs that do nothing but post old screencaptures of 80s adventure games, Flipboard doesn't have my back on this one

http://fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com/ ?

WARNING 

[CajoleJuice]

I stopped using GReader when they shut down sharing.

[Shaka Khan]

I subscribe to MULTIPLE tumblrs that do nothing but post old screencaptures of 80s adventure games, Flipboard doesn't have my back on this one

http://fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com/ ?

WARNING 

This is... this is amazing. It's like a whole new world just opened up to me.

[Positive Touch]

and as I said on Twitter

where the FUCK do you think your friends find interesting links to recommend? Google Fucking Reader.

i assumed they were out trolling sites all day and bringing back their bounty to twitter, where i could easily sup on it

[Phoenix Dark]

how can the internet be dead when Xhamster is forever

[pilonv1]

bookmarks?

Fuck that, I memorize the url of all the sites I visit and type them into the address bar everytime.


You should see my typing of the dead skills

Also do the same as Positive Touch

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I subscribe to MULTIPLE tumblrs that do nothing but post old screencaptures of 80s adventure games, Flipboard doesn't have my back on this one

http://fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com/ ?

WARNING 

yeah that one is definitely my favorite

[pilonv1]

How on earth do you find stuff like that?

[archnemesis]

Usually I get a link from someone who found it through Google Reader.

[pilonv1]

I knew that would be the answer.

[Reb]

Google reader is my first stop on the internet.
Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

[Diunx]

Google what?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Never used google reader. Don't really know what it is.

[archnemesis]

Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

How do I enable list view? I managed to turn off all the crap in the sidebar, but I didn't find a place to change the default view.

[ManaByte]

Google has turned evil. Time for them to get a new motto.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

How do I enable list view? I managed to turn off all the crap in the sidebar, but I didn't find a place to change the default view.

under Preferences you can set default to List/Condensed for all Feeds, as well as set Feedly to default to "All" instead of Today/Discovery

[Reb]

Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

How do I enable list view? I managed to turn off all the crap in the sidebar, but I didn't find a place to change the default view.

If you go to a section, or the all section, you can click the gear and choose "Titles", that's the Reader like view.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

How do I enable list view? I managed to turn off all the crap in the sidebar, but I didn't find a place to change the default view.

If you go to a section, or the all section, you can click the gear and choose "Titles", that's the Reader like view.

that only updates it for an individual feed/category. you can adjust the default view for all feeds under Preferences

[Howard Alan Treesong]

http://www.lostsaloon.com/technology/use-css-to-customize-feedly-to-use-full-width-of-the-screen-version-8/

[Reb]

Moved to feedly, set everything to list view, and I'm set.

How do I enable list view? I managed to turn off all the crap in the sidebar, but I didn't find a place to change the default view.

If you go to a section, or the all section, you can click the gear and choose "Titles", that's the Reader like view.

that only updates it for an individual feed/category. you can adjust the default view for all feeds under Preferences

That doesn't work for me, it also ignores the fact that I set the default start page to "all".

[Kim Kardashians Butt]

I subscribe to MULTIPLE tumblrs that do nothing but post old screencaptures of 80s adventure games, Flipboard doesn't have my back on this one

http://fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com/ ?

WARNING 

This is... this is amazing. It's like a whole new world just opened up to me.

[Kim Kardashians Butt]

bookmarks?

Fuck that, I memorize the url of all the sites I visit and type them into the address bar everytime.


You should see my typing of the dead skills

I thought that was how everyone uses the internet. Only exception for me is twitter. Twitter is my RSS feed.

[archnemesis]

Interesting, it looks completely different from my home computer. My earlier confusion was either caused by some issue with Linux/Firefox/NoScript or the beer.

[Eric P]

http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives