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Andy Baio Jun 30, 2023

The 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

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge

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Was using Bloglines at the time Google Reader dropped. Was a huge upgrade . Bloglines was unstable on a good day. Have seen so many programs I love get killed.
Flipboard bought Zite and killed that, promising to incorporate Zite’s discovery engine. Never happened. This new millennium has been an endless crock of shit.