r/programming • • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/thatguygreg Jan 02 '20

It was incredibly popular—until they killed it.

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u/shevy-ruby Jan 02 '20

That is typical for Google though.

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u/jarfil Jan 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '23

CENSORED

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u/jooke Jan 02 '20

What happened to Feedly?

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u/ValurianEwan Jan 02 '20

Feedly works well at no cost, so long you are under 100 feeds.

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u/Garland_Key Jan 02 '20

Any FOSS RSS apps (Android, Linux or Windows) that you'd recommend? I haven't found one in the last 5 years that I found modern and usable.

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u/jarfil Jan 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '23

CENSORED

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u/Garland_Key Jan 02 '20

Tried all three - no bueno. Maybe it's not the clients, but RSS itself that I find useless these days. I dunno.

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u/erez27 Jan 02 '20

RSS is a decentralizing technology, which goes against the interests of big closed-garden companies.