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I know it's a meme, but I genuinely miss Google Reader. It was so nice to have many sources of information aggregated into one app. Now it's fragmented across HN, Reddit, Substack, Twitter etc etc. I don't even bother following it all anymore.

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I don't get that meme. Yes, Google Reader shutting down was a bit annoying, but I exported my subscriptions into a different reader and have been using that ever since. But somehow for soo many people it was really important, but they didn't bother replacing it?!

Why don’t you use an RSS reader now? As a maker of a news reader (https://sumi.news), I’m curious what was it that made Google Reader special.

It’s not that google reader was special it’s just that with its death, rss essentially went on life support with fewer and fewer sites having first class support.

At least that’s understanding, as my usage of the internet was limited to flash games at the time.

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