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Dammit, I use that thing all the time.
What? I love Google Reader… I use it daily. Crap.
Yep.
It's effectively the death of RSS for me. There's nothing that just sits quietly up there next to my Gmail and my Plus and my Drive and my Calendar and my Play…waiting for when the mood and opportunity strike.
It was Seamless with the rest of the Google Universe, and adding stuff to it was Frictionless (which Google got right, where Facebook was a trainwreck).
I REALLY feel bad for all the bloggers that depended on it (and its tight integration with the remainder of the Google Product Family) for actual income generation opportunities.
Just saw this. I'm going to give this a shot for mobile. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
All this means is that I will use one less Google service. I will always use RSS.
I don't mind their wanting folks accessing via Google Plus — but that means, to me, pulling RSS feeds into G+, which they've shown no inclination to do (though there are a number of ways it could be done). Most sites out there aren't going to hook up to Plus, Facebook, Twitter, which means most people won't have an easy way to keep track of them any more.
I follow websites, I follow webcomics, I follow all sorts of stuff through Reader, I wouldn't want my reader stuff into my G+ stream because I choose when to look at my RSS feed, I don't want it suddenly disappearing when I can't check my G+ for a few days…
I didn't know you could pull RSS feeds into G+… but even if you can, that seems like an awful alternative. G+ doesn't work the same way Reader does. That's why I use Reader.