Andy BaioThe Verge goes deep on who killed Google Reader, ten years after its demise. I’ve always been furious about this, and somehow, reading this made me even angrier. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
I knew a lot of this story already, except how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team, who built something wonderful and then were forced to constantly defend it and beg for resources, until they were dragged away to work on Google Plus and it was unceremoniously killed.
M. Forester@andybaio I'll have to read the article.
To be honest, I never got the prolonged grieving for Google Reader, although I never used it myself. I've been using a bunch of different feed readers over the years (including Feedly at one time) and RSS never went away or died for me.
Can somebody tell me what exactly made this implementation so very special?
To be honest, I never got the prolonged grieving for Google Reader, although I never used it myself. I've been using a bunch of different feed readers over the years (including Feedly at one time) and RSS never went away or died for me.
Can somebody tell me what exactly made this implementation so very special?
gio@mforester @andybaio "...Reader launched in 2005, right as the blogging era went mainstream; it made a suddenly huge and sprawling web feel small and accessible and helped a generation of news obsessives and super-commenters feel like they weren’t missing anything. It wasn’t Google’s most popular app, not by a long shot, but it was one of its most beloved..."