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Replacing Google Reader (The H)Replacing Google Reader (The H)Posted Mar 27, 2013 7:52 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)Parent article: Replacing Google Reader (The H)
I don't understand. Why do I need Google or anything "hosted" to browse my feeds? Isn't Akregator more than enough?
[Disclaimer: haven't used anything other than Akregator ;) OK, I use rss2email at work for one or two feeds that aren't enough to fire up a full-blown reader, but that's it.]
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Replacing Google Reader (The H) Posted Mar 27, 2013 8:06 UTC (Wed) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link]
> I don't understand. Why do I need Google or anything "hosted" to browse my feeds? Isn't Akregator more than enough?
You don't *need* it but, apart from being a really good keyboard driven web-based reader, the unique feature about Google Reader is, that it's backed by a stateful storage, which can be synchronized to from various clients, on various devices. Many people, including myself, find this an extremely useful feature. So, I can start my RSS reading in the morning in front of my desktop, pick it up on the bus on my smartphone, and finish it in the evening on my tablet. All in one continuous synchronized flow. Feed items are identically read/unread on all devices, on all clients. That's a pretty great thing, and I'm going to miss GR sorely.
Replacing Google Reader (The H) Posted Mar 27, 2013 8:38 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> You don't *need* it but, apart from being a really good keyboard driven web-based reader, the unique feature about Google Reader is, that it's backed by a stateful storage, which can be synchronized to from various clients, on various devices.
Ah, I see. I got so used to strict separation of information sources between home (Akregator, browser session), bus/train (a book, a magazine) and work (another browser session) that I always forget about this aspect. I guess I'm old-fashioned ;)
Replacing Google Reader (The H) Posted Mar 27, 2013 9:43 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] There are another unique feature: if you subscribe to some RSS which is popular enough (and most of them are popular enough since there are literally millions of users) you can see not just what few articles server decided to send your way right now, but you can browser years back and look on the items which were posted long ago. This feature is basically impossible to replicate in any non-cloud solution.
Replacing Google Reader (The H) Posted Mar 27, 2013 11:40 UTC (Wed) by dany (guest, #18902) [Link]
Exactly, also great feature about google reader is, it still shows also rss from blogs which are no longer available (for example from sun employees, when oracle bought them, they deleted them), but I still see these old technical posts in google reader for technical reference. I will miss GR very much..
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