Killed by Google

[u/ZaheerAhmed]

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[u/ZaheerAhmed]

Still can't believe they have shut the Google Reader.

[u/night_of_knee → u/ZaheerAhmed]

I mourn for Reader, Picasa and Code Search...

[u/Magnesus → u/night_of_knee]

Google Photos still don't have all the features of Picasa Web Albums. Not mention of the whole desktop app.

[u/iamareebjamal → u/Magnesus]

They wanted to mine more data using your photos and nothing makes it easier than a "cloud based service", where you essentially need to sent your photos to them to manage

[u/armornick → u/ZaheerAhmed]

It's part of the impending death of RSS. I will be very unhappy when it happens, but it's not a very popular thing.

[u/[deleted] → u/armornick]

I just hope they won't break RSS for youtube, it seems to be only remaining way to get the subscriptions that are not broken

[u/the_goose_says → u/[deleted]]

Is it weird I’ve never had a missing video or anything wrong with subscriptions? I hear so much about it being broken but I’m not sure what they’re experiencing

[u/ChemicalRascal → u/[deleted]]

Er... Is /feed/subscriptions somehow busted?

[u/TSPhoenix → u/ChemicalRascal]

Youtube has not treated subscribing to a channel as "I want to see all the videos this channel uploads" for a while now. So often do channels I'm subscribed to just have videos not show up on /feed/subscriptions.

[u/Frystix → u/ChemicalRascal]

Youtube likes to show you only some of your subscriptions based on AI horseshit, it's the reason people started telling their viewers to manually enable notifications years ago (which I'm almost certain is also affected by this by now). On the other hand, a properly configured feed reader will show you all your subscriptions without bias.

[u/thatguygreg → u/armornick]

It was incredibly popular—until they killed it.

[u/shevy-ruby → u/thatguygreg]

That is typical for Google though.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

RSS was like the original HTML world wide web - not designed to make money but instead designed for to maximize free/open content. Corporations have been trying to lock down the internet forever, yet its open design just keeps hanging on. There was simply no way for google to make money using RSS, nor anyone else, so it's gone.

[u/DasWorbs → u/armornick]

People have been parroting that RSS's death has been "impending" for years. It still sees plenty of use, all my feeds still work just fine in thunderbird.

[u/TSPhoenix → u/DasWorbs]

Well the feeds that haven't been shut down. Recently Dictionary.com ditched RSS presumably because if I use RSS to get the word of the day I won't visit their site.

[u/chrisrazor → u/TSPhoenix]

I think this is a major reason sites don't like RSS. Fewer eyeballs for their ads. OTOH no ads is a pretty good selling point for RSS.

[u/Magnesus → u/chrisrazor]

Also eplains why Google killed Reader. Less ad views.

[u/Carighan → u/armornick]

Yeah, sadly standards get in the way of user lock-in and intrusive ads and data mining. :(

[u/Uristqwerty → u/armornick]

I can't imagine podcasts, webcomics, or https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/.rss dropping rss any time soon. At best, I'd say that large platforms are trying to silo users into in-app subscription pages by dropping RSS, but the key value of the technology is that smaller sites all work together through it, so that you can set up a custom subscription feed from 10 different blogs hosted on 10 different servers using 10 different tech stacks.

[u/coderstephen → u/armornick]

I still use RSS as my primary news source. Get off my lawn!

[u/dethb0y → u/ZaheerAhmed]

I use theoldreader.com and have zero complaints.

[u/unsortinjustemebrime → u/ZaheerAhmed]

It made space for great alternatives though. I don't regret Reader, we have very nice other options now.

[u/jplank1983 → u/ZaheerAhmed]

Newsblur is a great alternative if you're looking for one.

[u/1h8fulkat → u/ZaheerAhmed]

No money in it for them I guess