Saturday, June 29, 2013

RSS-related hellfire rains from heaven

Bye, Google Reader.  Sniff.
Yes, that would be the typical start of a fake news story here, but this is a purely serious public service announcement.  If you have been following this blog through an RSS feed, the most popular version of reading RSS, Google Reader, dies a horrendous and unnecessary death on Monday (not that I have opinions on any of this).  I encourage you to import your Google Reader subscriptions to Feedly.com (and it is easy--I just did it).  I can't guarantee it will be the same, but they do seem to have a clean interface and nice features.  Plus you keep in touch with the blog.

I am visiting family in Alabama right now.  I have been exploring how to "fix" the %^&*% blinky dinks on this blog.  Right now, I am leaning toward Squarespace, but am figuring out whether I can import this whole clunky thing.  In any case, I know it has been quiet, but consider it allowing the field to go fallow for a few days/weeks while I figure this out.

Peace, get out an umbrella, and go to Feedly.com!

6 comments:

PaperSmyth said...

I've been using Feedly for at least two months now. (I basically switched over as soon as Google made their &%!^ announcement.) And it works fine for me also.

(For the "ultra-geeky," you may want to go grab everything from your Reader history via "Google Takeout." You have 'til the 15th of July for "Google Takeout" of Reader, or so I hear.)

Best of luck with the "changing clunkness" project. :D I'm sure it will turn out great!

Fran said...

I have been to Feedly!

Fran said...

I'm playing with Squarespace now... I am so not good at these things, but I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me!

SCEcclesia said...

Feedly is terrific -I've been using it for ages on my iPhone and android tablet and now my iPad - a great reading interface

Ginny@RandomActsofMomness said...

This is perfect timing -- I'm reading your post on my brand-new (as in, I imported my shtuff five minutes ago) Feedly feed. (Feed? Account? I never know what to call these things.) I like that you can create categories for blogs -- but otherwise, the jury's still out.

And I'm with you: I don't know why Google Reader had to go bye-bye. If it ain't broke, etc.

Rocket Scientist said...

We miss your posts!