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| goread | readerisdead | |
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| about 4 years ago | almost 6 years ago | |
| JavaScript | Python | |
| ISC License | Apache License 2.0 |
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goread
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RIP Google Reader
Exactly, Google Reader was a pretty straight forward RSS reader, and there are a bunch of other ones that existed then as they do now. Literally a week after it went down, someone wrote an exact alternative in Go you could host on AppEngine [1]. It was nearly identical. Many other similar project sprung up too, which goes to show how basic and non-special Reader really was.
People love to put it on a pedestal and circlejerk to the nostalgia, but an app that any engineer worth their salt can code in a weekend isn't really something worth Google's time and Google-scale.
https://github.com/mjibson/goread
readerisdead
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RIP Google Reader
All these years later, I still use the Google Reader frontend (with newsblur as the backend).
It turns out that Reader's UI assets were stand alone enough that you could just implement the backend API and it all would work.
I saw this originally in a project for viewing your Reader Takeout data[1], and just built on that idea to make my own personal Google Reader experience.
[1]: https://github.com/mihaip/readerisdead
What are some alternatives?
neocities - Neocities.org - the web site. The entire thing. Yep, we're completely open source.
ftr-site-config - Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.
Feedbin - A nice place to read on the web.
desktop - Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions
Miniflux - Minimalist and opinionated feed reader