I think a 2013 Reader should be an open source web app you can run yourself or pay to use as a service, which runs on a server pulling in feed data, and then as a detachable HTML5+JS+localstorage client that downloads the data and can run offline.<p>Building another hosted RSS reader project just gets us back to step 1 in terms of one company's ability to yank away a tool that functions almost like a newspaper to many people today.<p>NewsBlur looks like it just got a ton of new github watchers since this announcement, and would maybe be good to treat as the defacto "open RSS reader platform" leader -
<a href="https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur</a>
I'm actually fairly optimistic about this idea. Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with.<p>What I'd really like to see Digg do is move towards dealing with social sharing of news not completely unlike Kippt. They could have it so that your personal feed could be a(n easily seperable) mix of both your rss feed and your friends/folowees. Then they could make their frontpage an aggregation of commonly shared stories, sortable by tags. I think that would really allow them to be a social news hub that's different than a lot of the social news hubs out there now, with the name recognition of Digg.
Digg has always been late with everything since they lost their throne at the top. I doubt the world will wait for them to deliver something new.<p>Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers. Wordpress.com has recently introduced their own reader and it supposedly has a feature to browse external sites. Why can't Reddit and Tumblr do the same thing?
Hi, I am the author of open source rss reader Rssminer, live demo: <a href="http://rssminer.net/demo" rel="nofollow">http://rssminer.net/demo</a><p>How about your guy build on top it, I can contribute the whole source code (anyway, it's open source)<p>The reasons I do so:<p>1. Rss Reader needs a lot of hardware resources for storing/fetch feeds. A big company have much better resource than I can offer.
2. I can provide some paid support for rssminer's code.<p>The reasons why it may be helpful for you guys:<p>1. Rssminer is fully working, you can save a lot of time, faster product
2. The code is very clean. <a href="https://github.com/shenfeng/rssminer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shenfeng/rssminer</a>
3. The code is very fast. In order for it to be fast, I even write an event driven http clent and server: <a href="https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit</a><p>If interested, drop me an email: shenedu@gmail.com
It actually sounds awesome that Digg is behind it.<p>I can already picture the frontpage of Digg made of posts that were most liked by individual users on their RSS feed. of Comments on Digg about the RSS item.<p>Anyone sees this as a huge potential? You don't need to post anything, you just need to like your own rss feed and posts gets promoted. You can check comments in case other users are following the same rss feed as you etc...
Doesn't this seem a bit too-little-too-late? Right now is the big shuffle, and unless there's a really big revolution I don't see another such opportunity coming for a long time.
For me the dream team was GReader combined with the PostRank (Chrome Extension) to filter based on social metrics. Unfortunately PostRank was the second most important product that Google is its wisdom (and evilness) decided to shut down. For an idea of the power see: <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=tWri7T3f4Ex6-uVU8i9-FFQ&type=view&gid=0&f=true&sortcolid=10&sortasc=false&rowsperpage=250&pli=1&pli=1" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=tWri7T3f4...</a>. Each row of the GReader would be lighter or darker based on the PostRank or you could simply filter based on minimum PR rating.<p>The one and only enhancement beyond this would be to integrate an Instapaper-type functionality so I have all my content in one place, whether fed by RSS, or random pages that I tag to read later as I come across them.<p>Digg is one of the few companies that I could see pull off the social dimension successfully.
Can anyone tell me why every one of these articles has this quote or a similar on in there?<p>"We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is..." I've seen about a dozen posts on HN about Google Reader being retired so RSS readers clearly still appeal to at least this demographic. My girlfriend will also dearly miss Google Reader so it can clearly appeal to non-technical folks as well...<p>What has replaced RSS readers, Twitter? Facebook? Reddit? As someone who doesn't use social media I would say no. Google Reader is, for me, still the quickest way to get interesting news / information. I don't understand why all the articles state RSS is dead as a fact.
> We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is,<p>Does the author mean RSS as a format or aggregated feeds being "a thing of the past"?<p>I don't think feeds have achieved their potential yet.
I really miss the social aspect of Google reader before they axed it back in 2011. It's not really social in the traditional sense, it's social in the sense that I could outsource the job of scouring feeds on various topics to other people. Everything they found interesting would be mainlined right into my reader interface so I didn't have to personally check 20 feeds on Android.<p>I do hope that Digg can create a simple and fast interface that captures this concept without too much clutter from the more traditional social features.
"Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st."<p>Somehow I doubt they are dismayed. Excited, maybe?