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tommyrot - Mar 13, 2013 5:28:23 pm PDT #22176 of 25497

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Lifehacker suggests some possible alternatives: [link]

Laughing Squid suggests The Old Reader. They say:

Welcome to The Old Reader, the ultimate social RSS reader. It's just like the old google reader, only better. We're in beta right now, but we're constantly working on improvements and new features.

le nubian - Mar 13, 2013 10:18:59 pm PDT #22177 of 25497

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

feedly is looking like a good alternative.

Calli - Mar 14, 2013 1:34:25 am PDT #22178 of 25497

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I was just coming over to ask about Google Reader alternatives. I wonder how much, if anything, mobile apps like Flipbook had to do with its demise?

Tom Scola - Mar 14, 2013 2:10:11 am PDT #22179 of 25497

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

This didn’t take long: Hitler reacts to the Google Reader shutdown. I agree with everything that Hitler says here.

sj - Mar 14, 2013 2:49:28 am PDT #22180 of 25497

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Some people on Twitter are claiming that Twitter killed Google Reader, which I don't really get. It doesn't work the same at ALL.

Twitter did make it much more difficult to follow Twitter accounts via Google Reader, which I used to do, but I still use reader to follow blogs.

tommyrot - Mar 14, 2013 5:06:00 am PDT #22181 of 25497

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This didn’t take long: Hitler reacts to the Google Reader shutdown. I agree with everything that Hitler says here.

I think I laughed harder at this Hitler rant than all his others.

Jessica - Mar 14, 2013 9:22:17 am PDT #22182 of 25497

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hitler reacts to the Google Reader shutdown.

Bwahaha! Well, I won't say that made it all worth it, but I feel better now.

Feh. Hopefully someone has a tool to export/import all my feeds? Because I have way more subscriptions now than when I migrated over TO Google Reader from Bloglines.

megan walker - Mar 14, 2013 9:26:13 am PDT #22183 of 25497

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Well, moving to Feedly was easy and I'm really liking it so far.

le nubian - Mar 14, 2013 10:59:05 am PDT #22184 of 25497

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Jessica,

I exported an xml file from reader yesterday. I am using feedly right now - which has iphone app and that will have to do.

flipboard is also useful, but I may start thinking about ifttt.com alternatives for RSS feeds that I really need to read. I am now getting quite a lot of links from twitter, but there is key stuff I am missing, and ifttt can probably deal with that.

§ ita § - Mar 14, 2013 11:02:56 am PDT #22185 of 25497

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I do not understand this twitter alternatives. Are people tweeting updates to their sites and you follow that? How is that consolidated or automated?

She says, pausing to wonder if the provocateuse twitter account should be used for anything...

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