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by scrollaway 3011 days ago
> Twitter users

People. People are up in arms.

Anyway, yeah, that's insane. Even Google, who constantly shuts stuff down, usually does so with way more heads up. For comparison, Google Reader, a completely free service, shut down with 3.5 months advance notice. Google Wave got almost 6 months notice.
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cygned 3011 days ago
> Google Reader

It still hurts.

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112233 3010 days ago
Since I missed on missing it, was there any particular feature that's not in other rss readers?

I have only user rss via gwene over nntp, if that went away, i'd miss it bunches.

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cygned 3010 days ago
It’s not about features. Nowadays, I’d go with a self-hosted Open Source application from the start. In fact, that’s what I am looking for at this very moment.
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Hallucinaut 3011 days ago
It was the day RSS died for me
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detaro 3011 days ago
I really don't get why this statement is so common. More or less every other hosted reader immediately offered a migration path, so getting out of Reader and up and running somewhere else was really easy.
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dbrgn 3011 days ago
I'm glad it happened, now I'm happier with Feedly than I was back then with Google Reader.
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scrollaway 3011 days ago
https://bazqux.com/ - Highly recommended. I'm a lifetime subscriber.
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pronik 3011 days ago
Let it live again with InoReader....
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cube2222 3011 days ago
I do think that for commercial services like services in the Google cloud platform they give a year+.
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yegle 3010 days ago
All Google Cloud GA features will have at least 1 year of deprecation period.

7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the Services specified at the URL in the next sentence. Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

(i) required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

(ii) doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."

Disclaimer I work for Google in Cloud.

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manigandham 3010 days ago
Google does make a mess with consumer apps but it’s entirely different when it comes to Google Cloud or any of their enterprise products.
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