Post B7vBv9kL7KspdrXksC by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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 (DIR) Post #B7vBv9kL7KspdrXksC by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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       RE: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/116845291090365543Obviously everyone knows that Vic Gundotra killed Reader, but he didn't succeed immediately. He could destaff the project, but people could still spend 20% time maintaining it. It was inevitable that it would die, but what the final blow was a standard Google outcome - load bearing infrastructure was going to be turned off, and everyone had to port their project to the replacement that didn't really work yet. Reader just didn't have the resources, so died.RT: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/users/zachleat/statuses/116845291090365543
       
 (DIR) Post #B7vBvA37zTuca8Kl9s by jwz@mastodon.social
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       @mjg59 Unpopular take: Google Reader was nothing special, but lots of people who should have known better decided that this re-centralized version of RSS was equivalent to RSS, and so when Google Reader died so did RSS. All the anger about Google killing RSS is wrong, they just killed one barely-above-mediocre app.[ narrator ] RSS is exactly as alive as it ever was.Google Reader's one innovation was "what if cache". It was the Clownflare of blog syndication.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7vBvAIN4o6bLPSvuy by jwz@mastodon.social
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       @mjg59 As just one data point: in 2013, when Google Reader was killed, there were 69M WordPress sites.In 2026, there are 600M WordPress sites.That means that in the years since Google "killed" RSS, there are *at the very least* 531 million additional RSS feeds.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7vBvEZt9cUictgymG by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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       (An especially funny version of this is that Google Hangouts lasted a year longer than it should have done, because Google Cloud Print depended on Hangouts, so they threw resources at maintaining it so they could have an orderly deprecation)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7vBvG57Yz4VI3JR68 by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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       Also just fuck that guy for being awful regardless of what he did to an extremely good product