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]

it's amazing how frequently service providers fail to realise this. My email provider (whom I pay ;) recently massively overhauled their interface and released it without warning, and without any documentation, and without any advertised mechanism for going back to the old UI. And then were slightly surprised by the reaction.

(Historically they've been quite clueful, but being taken over by Oracle doesn't seem to have done them any good at all.)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

being taken over by Oracle

Oh... oh no! I'm very sorry. :-(

[venta.livejournal.com]

Although the sympathy is appreciated, it may not be justified: that was a really poor example of me spelling Opera!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

You got four of the five letters. That's basically a win.