{"id":1184,"date":"2013-03-17T22:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T02:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2013-03-17T22:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T02:21:49","slug":"reader-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Reader Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting a kick out of reading the stories from the Google Reader competitors reacting to the shutdown announcement. Google’s dwindling number of users appears to be counted in millions, which is a great many for almost any other entity. Feedly<\/a> and NewsBlur<\/a> seem to be the dominant destinations for reader refugees. <\/p>\n

Feedly reports<\/a> 500,000 new subscribers in the 48 hours following the announcement, and ordering 10 times their current bandwidth allocation. <\/p>\n

NewsBlur, which is a one-man-show, had all kinds of excitement<\/a> – they blew up their host, their mail provider, and unusually positive interaction from PayPal. <\/p>\n

I’m happy enough with TinyTinyRSS<\/a>, but NewsBlur was distinctly a close second – Newsblur is attractive (in terms of design, model, and UI), open source (Under an MIT licence), and supports self-hosted instances, but is seriously complicated<\/a> to set up, by the author’s own admission – I tried on a VM, and decided that for now ttrss is a better choice. <\/p>\n

They both seem to be excited more than anything, which is consistent with the reaction I’ve been seeing with the TTRSS developer (also a small pet project) and community – the shakeup could well provide some nice selective pressure for the RSS ecosystem. <\/p>\n

(Posting here because I’m done with putting up with google’s failings – Plus doesn’t handle multiple links well, and I have no desire to fight with it). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting a kick out of reading the stories from the Google Reader competitors reacting to the shutdown announcement. Google’s dwindling number of users appears to be counted in millions, which is a great many for almost any other entity. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-diy","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}