Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance?
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year agoI used to have a bunch of science and technology articles in Google Reader and tried to do a blog where I would look for possible synergies and connections. When Google shuttered it I tried to keep going on other readers but my ADHD struggled with the change and it turned into another hobby that fell to the wayside. Makes me sad because I was so much more informed then than I am now about a wide array of stuff.
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I keep hearing about Google being part of the downfall but I honestly never heard of Google Ready long after it got closed down. How was this different than other RSS readers?
basskitten@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Since it was completely server-hosted it was incredibly fast. You’d open it up and boom, everything all up to date. The search was fantastic. (Say what you will about Google but they’ve always been great at search. Very fast and very good results.) The site layout was clean and minimal. It was just a really good implementation. Of course they murdered it.
If you used Gmail in the early days, and ever used something before it, you probably had a moment where you said “wow, this is what email should have been all along”. Reader was the same.