The Old Reader is closed and transformed into The Old Friends
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
The team of the popular alternative Google Reader RSS reader reported in his blog that the explosive growth The Old Reader He turned their lives into a nightmare, and they happened imbalance of work / personal life. But if a lot of text filter, then the conclusion is simple - The Old Reader is closed. However, as in the Russian fairy tales, you have a little quest, after passing which, you will get your hands on princess to kiss.
So, Elena and Dmitry Balygin Krasnouhov, creators of The Old Reader, convert the project into a "sandbox for us" and he will continue to develop and work in a limited pool of "friends." Open registration for the project is closed and now you can get to it on a personal invitation from the creators. If you use The Old Reader on a regular basis, you will offer collect my things pull your subscriptions OMPL-file and apply it to a more reliable service, which is not so focused on work-balance creators.
Here the authors who consider the service "own":
- the one who made the donation, and now has to prove this fact personally Elena and Dmitry;
- the one they personally know and be allowed to stay in the "sandbox";
- those who get an invite from them in the future.
We will not give advice to the creators who "do not want to be entrepreneurs", but we can advise you:
- always ask those who make service and why he is doing it for you for free. You spend hours with similar products and minute study will not kill you;
- give preference to paid services with clear model of development and the future yanym at least a year;
- not always you need COMFORT cloud synchronization and do not need to do it the de facto standard, sometimes local solution, which belongs only to you 100% would be suitable for you on the long range stories;
- Now choose a replacement is reasonable from our list Google Reader alternatives dead.
And since everything is well begun ...
How is your Sunday? We set up a new fancy monitoring :) Discussing bookmarklet and the future now + some coding. pic.twitter.com/txZ1jPon
- The Old Reader (@TheOldReader) January 13, 2013
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