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Chikorita Cast – Episode 3 – Google killed Google Reader! How dare they!

March 14, 2013 by Chikorita157 8 Comments

Artist: takuya kame

Sadly, the black smoke has come. Google decided to say “Sayanora” to Google Reader, a web application that allows people to subscribe and read people’s blogs through RSS feeds in one place. I think the decision is very idiotic and just will make people hate Google more, especially the crap they pulled with Google Images taking 60-80% of the traffic away from blogger’s websites.

Because I felt strongly about this issue, I decided to make another video podcast showing people how to use other applications to follow Anime Blogs. These solutions are Wordpess.com Reader, Feedly, Vienna (for Mac users) and RSS Bandit (for Windows users). I didn’t mention other clients since they cost money, but if you are using Reeder, they plan to make it Google Reader independent in the next update, so check out for that. So enjoy and feel free suggest other topics I should focus on in future podcasts. (Image Source)

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  1. marthaurion :
    March 14, 2013 at 9:40 pm • Magical Level: 22

    at least we have time to recover, right? Not that I used it for much anyway

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    • chikorita157 :
      March 16, 2013 at 2:17 pm • Magical Level: 2864

      Hopefully, but I am still raging over their decision.

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  2. Justin :
    March 14, 2013 at 9:52 pm • Magical Level: 13

    I only have two ways to keep track/add blogs: My Yahoo (Feed > copy link > My Yahoo > Content > Add RSS Feed), and RSS Feed Reader App that I added for Chrome. Pulls up a link to subscribe to the feed or comments, and I don’t even have to click the RSS link 😀 I tried Google Reader sometime last year, but not a lot, and haven’t used it in a while. So…sorry for those who used Google Reader, it obviously was used by a lot of people. Just not me D:

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    • chikorita157 :
      March 16, 2013 at 4:39 pm • Magical Level: 2864

      I used Google Reader web interface until they changed it in the past two years. After that, I started using Reeder, which requires a Google Reader account… but I’m pretty much screwed until the developers update the program. Still, shame on Google for closing such a good tool in exchange for a social network I barely use.

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  3. Moonlitasteria :
    March 19, 2013 at 11:11 pm • Magical Level: 27

    It really is not that big of a deal. Greader’s services don’t even go offline until sometime in the Summer (I forget when) and all you have to do is just grab a copy of the OPML, which syncs with just about any other feed reader application. I can already name six good ones right off the bat. I never did use it much anyway, so meh…

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    • chikorita157 :
      March 20, 2013 at 5:14 pm • Magical Level: 2864

      It stops on July 1st, but it’s not a big deal as I already have it imported and still waiting for Reeder to transition away from Google Reader. I don’t use it that much nowadays since it’s more convenient to read it from a RSS Reader program. However, one of the helpful things that Google Reader does is that you can sync your subscriptions so that you don’t have to subscribe to it on each device or computer you have while being able to read on the web. Now that is gone, it just makes things harder. Even so, I think there will be someone who will fill up that space, but it’s still pain in the butt.

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      • moonlitasteria :
        March 22, 2013 at 12:10 am • Magical Level: 27

        Ever tried Feedly or Pulse? They both have mobile/web versions and nearly do the same thing as Google Reader. Although, for both, you can also import your Google Reader subscriptions, lol. Then their is always the FeedReader application that installs on your desktop (awesome one). I will agree that is sort of a pain though, since almost ever other service syncs with it. With that said, is feedbuner effected? It is also with Google, but I never used that much anyway either or never noticed…

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        • chikorita157 :
          March 22, 2013 at 11:00 am • Magical Level: 2864

          I know about them and they can import the feeds easily if you sync them before the closure date. However, I don’t think Feedburner is affected yet, although it might get killed off someday… This is why I am starting to hate Google as their goal is possibly force everyone to use Google Plus, which I don’t particularly use hardly nowadays.

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