Yesterday was a sad day for bloggers everywhere.
Some of you might be reading this post from Google Reader. As you’re probably already aware, Google will be discontinuing Google Reader as of July 1, 2013. While we’re saddened that this is happening, and extra sad because Google Reader’s engineers had chosen us as one of their Staff Picks back in 2008, we understand that the web is changing and we’re ready to change with it. However, if you’re not ready to say sayonara to your beloved RSS reader yet, there are some excellent alternatives and other ways that you can get your Design Milk fix every day.
You can use Feedly on your desktop or you can download the app for your iPhone/iPad or from Google Play. Use these instructions to import your Google Reader feeds into Feedly, or natively add Design Milk to Feedly by navigating to the Design section. Easy peasy!
You can follow us on Flipboard – just download the app for Apple or from Google Play. Use these instructions to migrate your Google Reader feeds into Flipboard. Or, natively add Design Milk to Flipboard by navigating to the Photos & Design section and you will see Design Milk. Super easy!
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melissa on 03.14.2013 at 12:52 PM
I am already using Flipboard for my Google Reader feed and am glad I don’t have to do anything.
Raymond on 03.14.2013 at 13:02 PM
I use Google Currents on my tablet, it would be nice if you guys could get on there. I don’t know what that process is, though.
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.14.2013 at 13:12 PM
Good option, too! I think you can manually add us. I don’t know how to reach them to request we be added, but I can try!
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.15.2013 at 21:44 PM
You can find Design Milk on Google Currents here: https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAow64TDAg/design_milk
Toby on 03.14.2013 at 20:07 PM
I’m gonna plug NetNewsWire here. It’s such a good little app. Great, simple UI. Has, or at least had, the ability to sync with Google Reader, so if you do that while GR is still up it could save you some hassle later.
RSS is invaluable, and I don’t see it going away any time soon. I pretty much rely on it to stay up to date on so many fronts.
creede on 03.14.2013 at 20:08 PM
I’m a huge fan of Feedly, and super relieved that it will still work without google reader. I wrote about it here (http://grassrootsmodern.com/blog/2012/08/03/feedly-what-blogs-do-you-follow) and how it was a game changer for me (and helps me keep up on Design Milk!).
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.14.2013 at 20:14 PM
I love Feedly and they’ve been such a huge supporter of Design Milk. And it’s nice to see how their interface design keeps getting better and better.
Paul J. Martinez on 03.15.2013 at 01:41 AM
Another good option for web-based RSS reader is FeedBin https://feedbin.me/
nccwarp9 on 03.15.2013 at 10:13 AM
Can someone please tell me how exactly can twitter replace RSS ? I been reading about it in google reader and Iam baffled. I find communication of twitter mindlessness, mindless rantings. No wonder the quality of journalism has drooped when no one is expected to write more than 160 or something characters, let alone words.
The same goes for facebook or that shit google+. I use facebook to connect to my friends not to be spammed by news which by the way is horribly formatted for easy consumption.
As for all those new fancy RSS readers that look like newspapers. WTF ? They are useless. I get 1000+ news items from 144 sources a day and, don’t get me wrong I tried those shity newspaper like services and they are simply useless if you have any bigger volume of news.
As you can see Im angry, angry that they betrayed my trust. So in desperation I will be moving all of my data and businesses off the cloud and to my servers where shit like what google pulled can not happen.
But really, twitter ? Twitter ???
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.15.2013 at 10:17 AM
Hi! I don’t think that Twitter can replace RSS. I wasn’t making that claim, I was just sharing an alternative way to get news from Design Milk. I’d suggest you look into exporting your Google Reader subscriptions to Feedly or Flipboard, or perhaps one of the reader services that other commenters have recommended. Google has a great reader called Currents for mobile devices, too. I think we’re all at the mercy of these services – readers and bloggers alike and it can definitely be frustrating when they decide something isn’t worth investing in anymore. Trust me – we’re pretty bummed over here too, considering the vast amount of Design Milk readers who use Google Reader to get our updates. Good luck finding the right service! Let us know if you discover a hidden gem.
nccwarp9 on 03.18.2013 at 05:05 AM
Currently Im trying out TheOldReader but am having issues with responsible, its a bit sluggish but that could probably be explained by influx of users that are running from google. It still needs a little facelift but for now it will do. Unlike those awfull “magazine like” readers that are useless. Except looking fancy they offer nothing to user.
for a longer lasting solution Ive been looking at my Raspberry Pi that’s currently sitting on my desk. It was meant for a HTPC but now, Im looking at it as a possible news aggregation server. Let it sit in the background and get my news for me and store them locally so I will never again need to switch providers or companies and get so frustrated.
As for twitter, I been trying to wrap my mind around the popularity of twitter for years now, its nonsensical useless tool for communication. Why people use it is beyond me and let alone promote it as something useful.
That reminds me. Twitters business model is non existent for now, right? so they are just burning investors money. Regardless how popular it is once they figure out that there is no money to be made with twitter they do the shutdown. What will that feel like? And it could happen.
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.15.2013 at 10:19 AM
Another suggestion related to your Twitter question is you can follow all of your blogs/news services via Twitter and put them in a column using Tweetdeck or Hootsuite and use it as a mini-reader.
nccwarp9 on 03.18.2013 at 05:49 AM
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/replace-google-reader-with-a-raspberry-pi-20130315/
Paul Murphy on 03.16.2013 at 14:13 PM
Hi there, great list although I’m surprised you didn’t mention bloglovin’. You have a popular blog over there and bloglovin targets design oriented readers and blogs.
Please check it out.. here’s your bloglovin page -
http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/31264/design-milk
Jaime Derringer (post author) on 03.16.2013 at 14:23 PM
Oh! Thanks for the reminder about Bloglovin’! I am only vaguely familiar with it, but thanks for the suggestion.
Alen on 03.29.2013 at 01:42 AM
When google reader was shutdown i was totally depressed because i normally use this but finally i found out alternative. Thanks Jaime