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I always see google reader talked about on hackernews, but has a comparable product not have been made by someone else yet?


There are plenty, actually. But RSS itself is essentially dead. At least compared to what it was.


So I just counted my RSS feeds via Live Bookmarks (dang you Firefox for killing them shakes cane) and I have 60+(! I expected like 30 tops) RSS feeds that I check regularly.

Most sites have RSS feeds, even the heavy hitters like YouTube.


How is it dead? Everything still exports RSS feeds.


The last time I tried RSS again (I was a big reader user), every feed had a on paragraph summary and link to the full article on the website.

I couldn't actually read the news in it anymore.


Nothing that is widely used, because as it turns out, RSS is not the web technology of the future. Or the present, really.


Side note, I remember the next 5 or so most popular alternatives to Reader being overloaded for weeks after the shutdown.


I still use feedly almost daily.




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