google, why you gotta be that way? the feedly remix

[topaz119]

hmmm, for those of you who read the news of Google Reader's demise and were as aggravated by the news as I am, I went and downloaded the Feedly extension/add-on for Chrome this morning and while it doesn't look the same, it was a completely seamless and easy transition. All my (200+, omg) feeds were there, as well as all my starred/saved/liked items. This is most important, as I tend to use that as a hold-all for recipes and gift ideas and travel notes/thoughts/projections and my books TBR/slush pile and a million other things and they would have been a bitch to transition.

I'm not sure what's going on with my tags, but I haven't started investigating how to tweak things yet. Mostly I'm just happy to have had the first part go so smoothly and with practically zero effort. They say they'll be able to transition everything to the feedly backend when Reader shuts down, too.

They have a migration doc up here: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-users-migrating-to-feedly/

I'm crossing my fingers, but so far, this looks pretty okay and easy... will update as things progress. (Also, feel free to let me know if you've found something that works for you or if you figure things out with feedly to make it fit how you work, etc.)

Another edit to add this lifehacker post with other alternatives:
http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Won't work for me. I only use Chrome at home. I use Google Reader at work, because I can get to Google Reader at work. I can't get to Dreamwidth at work, which is the other place I read feeds, and I have no way of knowing at this point whether any of the Reader substitutes are accessible from work. I'll email myself a URL list to check out tonight, but.

[topaz119]

feedly does have exensions/add-ons for other browsers + apps for the mobile operating systems, and lifehacker has a list of some alternatives here: http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives

Good luck!

[alexseanchai]

:)

[musesfool]

Thanks for the links. I'm going to have to investigate.

[topaz119]

I see a lot of people going for newsblur but I'm way over the limit of feeds for the free version (I think--I'm skimming all this stuff really quickly) and I didn't immediately see where I could import from Reader, so I'm still poking and tweaking at feedly.

[jstabe.livejournal.com]

I noticed a couple people talking about google reader being gone, but mine is fine. Weird.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's still there; google is just going to make it go away in June or July. So we're all trying to figure out what else to use when it disappears.