"Goodnight Sweet Prince" and other cliches to describe the death of Google Reader

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What will you do tommorrow when Google Reader dies?

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  1. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    I guess I was a little emotionally vulnerable when I made thaa this thread and I forgot to explain RSS.

    Google Reader was Google's RSS reader.

    An RSS reader aggregates RSS feeds together for easy news consumption.

    An RSS feed is created by a news site. It is updated with aall of the stories from any given news site. Some news sites have multiple RSS feeds for multiple kinds of news.

    RSS is cool because it lets you check all of the news sources that you care about all at once.

    Google Reader was an especially cool RSS reader because it was based in the cloud and it was accessed through a website or mobile app. It synced everything across all platforms and was absurdly easy to use once you subscribed to your feeds.

    RSS still exists. Pop into just about any news site and it's not hard to find its RSS feeds.
     
    ImSpartacus, Jul 3, 2013
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  2. D.D.D. Destroyer

    D.D.D. Destroyer Member Staff Member Moderator

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    Sounds like a tool for peasants who can't handle all the tabs open at one time. :rolleyes:
     
    D.D.D. Destroyer, Jul 3, 2013
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  3. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    I used to say that. One of my friends told me I would love it if I tried it.

    Now, I get to tell you that. Full circle, motherfuckers.
     
    ImSpartacus, Jul 3, 2013
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    Maybe one day once it gets too hard for me to open two sites.
     
    D.D.D. Destroyer, Jul 3, 2013
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    I'm fairly sure firefox has a thingy that does rss feeds.
     
    Chris0132', Jul 4, 2013
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  6. ImSpartacus

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    Yes, it has an RSS reader built in. But then you're tired to one browser on one computer with no backup.
     
    ImSpartacus, Jul 4, 2013
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    As I only have one computer and only use one browser on it, that would not be an issue for me.
     
    Chris0132', Jul 6, 2013
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