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People in 2021 pining for Google Reader feels like standing next to a clean mountain spring and wishing you had an old Dasani bottle.

@quantum @ihorner In particular, them making a very good reader for free with sharing, sucking in everyone to use their service for RSS, then murdering it lead to a slow decline in RSS, and probably Google's prospects for getting new users for their future services as well. Of course, many users jumped ship for Feedly and Newsblur and kept using RSS.
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@kazriko @ihorner @quantum I went to a desktop reader instead: an application that runs in my laptop. Tried all the hosted alternatives and they sucked. Frankly Google Reader was so-so too, the advantages of any-device access were barely enough to outweigh its deficiencies.