Google pulling the plug on Reader

[evilfantasy]

I'm surprised that they didn't attempt to integrate it into Google Plus. Makes me wonder if Google Plus will be in the next round of spring cleaning.

[patio]

Google Plus is gone this year...forget where i read it...most likely TechSpot.

[evilfantasy]

Sounds good to me. Never liked it to start with.

[evilfantasy]

Looks like a favorite is emerging. Feedly adds bandwidth, picks up over 500,000 Google Reader users in 48 hours

To keep the service up, we 10x our bandwidth and added new servers.

I checked out Feedly before starting this topic and it was slooow, maybe due to the Google announcement. I might have to revisit it now that they are beefing up the servers.

[techsupport]

I am really missing the Google Reader. Even though i have other options.

[evilfantasy]

After running RSSOwl along with Google Reader for a few weeks I have come to an uncomfortable realization. I should have dumped it long ago. Some feeds never even show up in Google Reader. It may be 1% or even far less but that's still too many.

I'm thinking about going to a desktop application instead of a browser based one this time.

I think I'll stick with RSSOwl. Too many of the others are not really feed readers. They are bloated applications or web pages with features having nothing to do with RSS.

[patio]

Feed Demon and Sharp Reader are worth a looksee...

[evilfantasy]

FeedDemon's main function is to synchronize with Google Reader so when GR is gone so is FeedDemon.

[patio]

The more i dig...the more confusing it becomes...

RSS alive in Chrome...

Go figure.

[evilfantasy]

Revisiting this for a moment.

Update: with Google Reader's demise, FeedDemon's developer has announced FeedDemon's death as well.

FeedDemon was given a final update and the release was actually the Pro version but is now free including no ads. The FeedDemon Support pages are still active...

I think I'll stick with RSSOwl...

Ultimately the bugs and stability issues got to be too much and I removed RSSOwl from my computer earlier in the week. I've been running FeedDemon for 4 or 5 days now and while I like the RSSOwl features a little more, FeedDemon is much more stable.