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Author Topic: Google Announces Closure of Reader  (Read 1453 times)

penguinofhonor

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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2013, 06:13:57 pm »

Solution: Get a Twitter.
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Mephansteras

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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2013, 06:17:49 pm »

Does Toady update on Twitter? Because one of my main uses of Google Reader is to get all the Dwarf Fortress updates automatically.
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2013, 06:28:56 pm »

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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2013, 06:34:25 pm »

Found a useful site for just that

Yeah, I know. But I get other stuff through Google Reader as well, with the advantage that a lot of it updates infrequently, so it saves a good bit of time instead of checking a bunch of websites to see if something new has been posted.

My point being that Twitter is useless if the people you're checking up on from RSS don't use it.
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2013, 07:04:09 pm »

RSS in general.

Short form is it's a program or whatever that tells you when websites update. More or less.
That actually sounds pretty useful.
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2013, 08:35:17 pm »

How the hell has anyone not even heard of RSS? It's that orange box in the corner of so many sites. And it's the reason most people don't check their favorite comics four times every day.
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2013, 08:37:33 pm »

How the hell has anyone not even heard of RSS? It's that orange box in the corner of so many sites. And it's the reason most people don't check their favorite comics four times every day.
I've heard of it, I just haven't bothered to find out what it is. Like lots of things on the internet.
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2013, 08:47:01 pm »

And here the Internet squelches curiosity, rather than runs it rabid. What is wrong with you people?
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Re: Google Announces Closure of Reader
« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2013, 11:34:12 pm »

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

With an RSS reader, you just have a single place you go to that shows updates from all the sites you're interested in. With an online RSS reader like google reader, you have the advantage of all devices you check them on syncing which ones you've read, etc.

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