15 reasons why we wont miss Google Reader

Yep its true. Google Reader faces its Apocalypse in a few months.

RIP Google Reader.

You were a great sport..

Google Reader, the eight-year-old RSS reader that became an industry standard, has been given a funeral date:

July 1, 2013.

Though the lack of Google Reader will be a terrible loss…

..there are

few reasons

that lead us

to think

that we

wont miss

Google

Reader as

much…

1. Consistently dropping “certain feeds” and then posting ten of them at once weeks later.

It gets pretty annoying with time.

2. Even after unsubscribing from several blogs[multiple times] Google kept signing

back up for them!

3.Other alternatives like Feedly are far better, offer more options and is much user friendly than our poor old

Reader

4. Everyone hated the new design Google

Reader under went in 2011

5. Google Reader has not had any new features in years

Although all these features are cool, they came way back in 2008.

6. Subscriptions!Managing them is a real

pain.

There is no easy way to change their

order through setting(you need to be

in a reader view to drag and drop

them)

7. All the social features are removed and replaced by a Google

+1 button.

Clicking the +1 button only adds the page to your Google Profile &you need to click the "share on Google+" box to

share the page with your friends.

TRASH

8. Feed column cannot be expanded

It is a concern for users with smaller screens. The feed column takes up a whole lot of space

9. Lacks imagination.

Looks a lot like Gmail

10. Folders and tags cannot public.

The blogroll widget and the associated public page don’t

updated.

11. All the items +1'd from Google Reader are treated like any other

pages.

There's no way to read the posts shared by your friends in Google

Reader

12. Doesn't offer keyboard shortcuts for sharing posts: Shift+s, Shift+d.

13. Home page! It’s completely up to Google Reader what is shown on

reader’s Home page.

You may tweak the Homepage but cannot arrange the Blogs according to your

hierarchy.

14. Its Slow

Scrolling works fine. But The Reader becomes awfully slow after performing few tasks.

15. Too much white space

There are several replacements for Google Reader.

Some are listed below…

ALTERNATIVES

ALTERNATIVES

ALTERNATIVES

ALTERNATIVES

ALTERNATIVES

Google Currents

ALTERNATIVES

Google Currents

ALTERNATIVES

Google Currents

ALTERNATIVES

Google Currents

Though Google Reader will be terrible loss for it’s devotees, Its also a fact that It will be easily replaced by its competitors ..

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