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Comment by masklinn | Hacker News Reader

There's at least two of us then. Reader is what made me swear never to rely on a Google service for anything ever again.

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There was a moment of beautiful karma a couple years ago when I was at a museum conference where the Google Cultural Institute (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/) team was trying to sign up partners but people kept asking how they could trust that it wouldn't turn into the next Reader and how they could get their data out or have permanent redirects when (not if) Google decided to shut the service down.

I still don't know how to use the Internet without Google Reader :/

https://theoldreader.com/ works for me

Ouch, automatic locale detection, and badly in need of a (proper) translator (for at least Dutch). And no way to switch language that I can find (wouldn't be the first time that was translated with "").

I'm currently using https://blogtrottr.com to get e-mail updates for RSS/Atom feeds.

Huh ? You can change the language (I'm in France and I have my theoldreader in English). You just need to click on your login at the top right and go to "Settings" (probably Instellingen in Dutch).

I don't have an account there.

But I just figured out that using: https://theoldreader.com/?locale=en will also get me English text.

That enables me to properly evaluate it before signing up should I want to.

https://www.inoreader.com/ is a good replacement

This is as close to Google Reader as I've gotten with any of them.

https://www.inoreader.com

Inoreader is fantastic! Works great on the web or in an app.

The app is nowhere close in polish to the google reader app, but I make do :'(

Considering all the rest of the Reader clones that have popped up, I think this one comes as close to Google Reader as they get.

newsblur is one of those open source yet hosted options that is a really good replacement

What about The Old Reader? https://theoldreader.com/ It's very similar to Google Reader, with the same UI.

Feedly works fine

I don't get it though. Yea, it was a dick move they did not just open source the backend reader server code so people could just selfhost a replacement, but they did let you export your feeds and now we have a half dozen reasonable or good reader replacements that do the same job, and most of them copied Google's UI to attract old reader users.

It was one of the most seamless transitions besides the lack of good Android apps for a while (and Feedly's is still super slow).

I don't think that "just" is the right prefix for "open source the backend reader server code". Moving it off of Google's internal infrastructure would have been a major project.

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