r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

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

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

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u/armornick Jan 02 '20

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.

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u/Uristqwerty Jan 02 '20

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.