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Comment by uluyol | Hacker News Reader

The death of reader wasn't as bad as this for me. Soon after reader died, alternatives popped up left and right, and some of them are better than reader ever was.

What alternative is there to gmail/inbox? Unlike an RSS reader, I think it's much more difficult to make an email service that's close to being as good as gmail/inbox while having the same level of features, especially across platforms.

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Sure, alternatives popped up, but wit the friction of finding something free and reliable, in my case at least, it resulted in abandoning my rss sources.

The problem is that the death of Reader also inflicted a death blow to blogs in general. Aggregation was entirely forfeited to Facebook, and clickbait became the norm for driving eyeballs, not fascinating writing that Readers shared and loved.

Also, "sort by magic" provided an excellent feed of articles to me in Reader, and all of the alternatives I tried either didn't have a comparable algorithm or their userbase was too small to train it.

What do you consider better than reader was? I'm still looking for something that scratches that itch in the same way so I'd really like to hear your opinion.

Inoreader is a very good alternative now imo. It lacks the way to share and subscribe to other people's shared articles, but i'd still give it a 9/10.

On that note, it boggles my mind that no startup has simply coppied google reader's features yet.

I'm waiting for https://superhuman.com/ finally to launch

Are you already using it? Looks great - I'd like an invite if so.

unfortunately no. It was announced a year ago and then nothing happened. But they still seem to be working on...

I’m with you. Inbox is really nice and mailbox has been killed by Dropbox. The new gmail just isn’t the same thing.

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