Google Reader
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
4warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Jun 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“A big part of the value of Google Reader and the ecosystem around it was that Google could poll your RSS feed once”
Caveats and dissent
“Google killed their reader years ago”
“Google Reader had done it's job, take over the RSS industry then kill it”
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“The writing was already on the wall by the time Google Reader shutdown.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Thoughts on People and Blogs 2 mentions
- RSS is back. AI agents are reading it 1 mention
- The Death of Social Media Is the Renaissance of RSS 1 mention
- I'm a truck driver who built a privacy-first RSS and webcomic reader 1 mention
- Ask HN: Why all the sudden people are writing browsers with AI? 1 mention
- Making Google Sans Flex 1 mention
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All comments 8
“A big part of the value of Google Reader and the ecosystem around it was that Google could poll your RSS feed once”
I was an avid GReader user and then lost all of the feeds when they closed down. I've been setting up miniflux lately, but the biggest problem is that over the years I've completely lost all blogs I used to follow (and many of them stopped writing anyway), so it's basically starting from zero. But it's already more interesting than trying to scourge Reddit for a non-marketingslop post to read. I also configured it to
If you haven't tried it, I would take a look at Inoreader. Especially if you have YouTube channels that you want to follow (it directly integrates with YouTube subscriptions).
We used to live counting the days in awe for the surprisingly new Google invention or release. Then, one by one, Google started killing more services than it was announcing (Wave, News, +, etc), and enshittifying with spyware those that were still up
“Google killed their reader years ago”
“Google Reader had done it's job, take over the RSS industry then kill it”
“Google broke up with RSS in 2013”
“The writing was already on the wall by the time Google Reader shutdown.”