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
Jens Oliver Meiert@andybaio, #GoogleReader was awesome. It did what one needed it for.
(Could we say that given the low info density, flat design superficiality of everything that came later, Reader’s shutdown marked the death of “Web 2.0”?)
I was at Google at the time and recall my own and other Googlers’ disappointment
Perhaps the biggest disappointment though is how everyone seems to have understood the death of Reader as the death of feeds
Feeds aren’t dead, but we lost a decade bringing them to people