It would try the patience of angels

[venta]

Never mind all this popery. The big news of the day is that Google is retiring Google Reader in July.

I use Google Reader, and am thus disappointed. On the plus side, with that gone, I'll have no reason to be signed into my Google account most of the time. I do use Google Docs, but that tends to be an infrequent sign-in-use-sign-out business. And anything which takes me one step away from Google's Giant Data Extraction Vortex is probably a good thing.

I'm lightly surprised, though. Apparently usage of Google Reader is declining. I'm not sure if this is indicative of better software being out there, or of a general decline in RSS use. Maybe all the cool kids use Facetweet as aggregators these days?

So, ladies and gentlemen of LJ, how should I read my RSS feeds in the future?

[Poll #1901989]


(Ars Technica is running a poll on "where should we go instead?", and they probably have a slightly bigger readership than I do. They're also better informed about the large number of RSS readers which rely on Google Reader to work.)

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I do at present. My phone's browser is a bit shonky, though, in that it ignores things like <i> and <b> tags - plus you don't get the fun of polls that way :)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

My browser, which is just the standard one that comes with an HTC Desire, handles all of that without a problem, including the polls. So you may well find when you upgrade that you don't need an app.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, good! I was rather hoping that all mobile browsers weren't that rubbish :)