When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. This is something we have been expecting for some time: We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API running on Google App Engine. You may also be able to use your email client as an RSS reader directly. Google announced today that they will be shutting down Google Reader. If you go to the web page for the blog, you’ll see a box on the right side where you can enter your email to subscribe. You can subscribe to this blog via email. Most of the readers run on multiple platforms. That post started as a list of readers available on Linux, and all do run there, but I added notes on what platforms each runs on. There are a lot of other alternatives, and I imagine more will appear over the next three months. It will synchronize across multiple devices like Google Reader, but has a very different user interface. Feedly is available through your browser as a mobile app. A half million people signed up for Feedly within 48 hours of the Google announcement. You may want to start with Feedly as it is appears to be the most popular alternative. Sometimes Reader is in the list under “More” and sometimes it’s not. Google has been tinkering with the menu you see when you log into their home page. If you use Google Reader, I suggest you bookmark. The proportions have changed slightly since then as people are starting to leave Google Reader. Here’s a snapshot from before Google announced the end of Reader. Most of you who subscribe to this blog use Google Reader or use an RSS reader that depends on Google’s Feedfetcher.
It’s able to do this by cloning the Google Reader API.įeedly will face competition for those soon-to-be homeless Google Reader fans though after web aggregation tool Digg announced its intentions to build a reader.As you’ve probably heard, Google has announced that they’re discontinuing Google Reader on July 1. The company has already promised a seamless transition for Google Reader users switching to the service before the shutdown on July 1st. It seems amid the weight of three million new users, which quadruples its user-base prior to the Google Reader announcement, Feedly is ready for the challenge. Sharing has also been improved with the addition of Google, while those who use the Pocket and Buffer apps will also have access to those services from within the Feedly toolbar. There’s also a new Title-only mode which makes it easier for users to scan headlines.
The company has also added a new feature called “Must Reads” which promotes essential articles, as well as a pull-to-refresh gesture. There’s also a “smart topic completion” feature and a new search algorithm to help users discover new feeds faster.
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To that end, the company has relaunched its apps for its free Android and iOS with an “all new search and discovery engine” which allows faster discovery of other 50 million feeds. We are thankful that so many Reader refugees have chosen Feedly for their new home, and are adding hardware as quickly as we can to make that transition as seamless as possible.” the company said in a blog post on Monday. Over 3 million new users have joined Feedly since the announcement of the retirement of Google Reader. “We’ve had two crazy, wonderful weeks at Feedly. The influx of users has made Feedly has forced the company to up its game in order to handle the load and keep those new users from looking elsewhere for another client. Two weeks later the company has revealed that figure has shot up to three million newcomers. In the week that Google surprisingly announced it would be shuttering its Reader RSS service, the Feedly client racked up 500,000 new users.
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