Rest In Peace
Google Reader


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An old friend gone too soon

Google Reader was from a better time, when there were more than five websites and we could log off without missing anything.



It kept track of what we wanted to read while introducing us to a whole new world wide web.



So many of us miss Google Reader that it made sense to make a place of our own to remember it.

You can visit our Memorial to Google Reader and read our tribute to a friend taken from us too soon.



You can go to the Guestbook and read the stories that others have left behind about Google Reader.



You can read more about the Knuckleheads' Club and why we care so much about Google killing Google reader.


They say you die twice, once when you stop breathing and the second when somebody says your name for the last time.



Google Reader has already died once. We refuse to let it die the final time.



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Google Reader


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Gone Too Soon
2005-2013

For some of us, Google killing Reader was the death blow that finally killed the open web. For others, it was simply the one that stung the most.

Even though many people loved and depended on Google Reader, Google still killed it. Now, it's hard to hear about any new Google product and not wonder when it will be killed off.



Google Reader was more than just a website to so many of us and its loss is a hole in our lives to this day. Try as we might, we cannot replace the joy of reading a million different websites with the repetitiveness of five or six big ones.

On March 25th, 2021 Google Reader will have been dead for longer than it was alive and, yet still, the ghost of Google Reader haunts Google to this day.

We know that these beautiful walled gardens we've been enclosed in are not half as beautiful as the web we used to have and the open web that we will have again.

After Google took everything it needed, Google turned its back on us and the open web.

We remember what Google Reader was and what it meant. We know what changed after Google killed Reader.

We won't forget the web we once had and we'll keep fighting to get it back again.

Rest in peace, Google Reader.

    Since We Last Logged In

    Google Reader Deserved Better


    The Knuckleheads' Club made this memorial to Google Reader because we are dedicated to the fight for an open web.

    The Knuckleheads' Club researches and exposes Google's secret source of monopoly power. We are working with governments all around the world to remove Google's tremendous advantages.

    We miss the way the web used to be and we are striking at the heart of Google to get back the open web we loved.

    You're invited to join us.

    If you're reading this and thinking this is just a bunch of nonsense, that we should just get over some old website, that's okay, this website wasn't made for you.


    But if you miss waking up everyday to check Google Reader, miss the joy in the work of finding who to subscribe to, miss the feeling of the whole world unfolding at your fingertips, then this website was meant for you and we are glad you found it.



    We built this website to let you know you aren't alone in missing the way the internet used to be.


    Google Reader deserved better than what it got. And so do we.


    The Knucklehead's Club is open to all comers. We're taking the fight to Google for killing Reader off. You're invited to join us in fighting for a better world, and a better internet, yet to come.

    The Google Reader Memorial Guestbook

    If you have a story or memory or anything at all about Google Reader you want to have published, use the form below. We check often and will send you an email when your message has been posted.

    We accept links, images and markdown. You can also send an email to ripgooglereader <at> knuckleheads.club.

    Our Stories


    I will always miss you greader. you were perfect for you. forever missed

    L


    Google Reader is not dead, just resting

    Alecxis


    I used to eat a meal everyday and when I did I'd be looking at my RSS feed for a scrumptious article to accommodate my good meal. Better days.

    Jang


    Google Reader (and iGoogle) has been my early impression with the
    Internet. I learned how to cross the GFW to use it and it's no
    exaggeration to say that it opened a whole new world.

    What I miss the most is Google Reader, the ecosystem behind it
    (personal blogs with option for RSS), and the open nature they
    represent. I'm sad to see the Internet is becoming more and more
    shallow and closed, and filled with user-hostile growth hacks and dark
    patterns.

    B.


    I used to read thousands of articles a month. Without reader I'm just a smoothbrain :( Also cat photos RSS cured my depression.

    Bob


    Using Google Reader felt like hanging out and having a beer with my favorite friends. It was teeming with conversation threads waiting to be pulled. Seeing a new share was like getting a tiny intellectual present, filled with all the right connotations - "Here's this thing I think you would find interesting," "I care about your opinion, what are your thoughts on this," "it's not important, but it is entertaining" , "not trying to share this with the world, just you, my friend."
    RIP Google Reader

    Sad Panda


    Forever remembering Google Reader, you taught me how to use the web without letting the web use me.

    Really Simply Sorrow


    Do you remember when it was easy to pull in the content you wasted to see on the internet before you spent your time trying to block all the tings the big three want pushed at you? Big Dave remembers...

    Big Dave


    Google Reader was an elegant weapon of a more civilized time.

    Back in the time when your friends and strangers had blogs and would write interesting thoughts longer than 140 characters.

    Back in those days, everyone would own their own little corner of the internet, with their own server and domain... in those days we thought that having a decentralized internet was a great idea!! not only for technology but even for civilization

    Then Google Reader would be your social network /wall with your friends and strangers thoughts organized in a nice way, acumulating RSS feeds right and left...

    now it's gone and we are left with only one Internet, with only one voice and only one filter...

    Rip Google Reader you left us too soon.

    Alejandro Garcia


    I still remember seeing the news of Google Reader demise on Google Reader...

    Antoine


    I still remember seeing the news of Google Reader demise on Google Reader...

    Antoine


    Google Reader was my introduction to RSS. After Google unceremoniously murdered it, I briefly used esobi before giving up for RSS altogether. In the years since, many new RSS solutions have begun to flourish in the wake of the death of Google Reader. Things are better now - one of the benefits of curating your own RSS feeds is NOT having to rely on Google.

    I use Agregator, a desktop-based solution created by KDE. There are many desktop clients, web-based clients, browser-based clients, terminal readers, and self-hosted solutions available. I wrote an article with some suggestions.



    One commenter on Hatena responded to my post by calling for the start of the RSS era. I could not agree more. The spirit of Google Reader lives on, sans Google.

    N.A. Ferrell


    Google Reader, you were from a more optimistic time when the internet was open. You were a symbol of what could have been. But alas it was not to be. Now I have to read 3 line hot takes on twitter to get info.

    Old user


    Google Reader, you were from a more optimistic time when the internet was open. You were a symbol of what could have been. But alas it was not to be. Now I have to read 3 line hot takes on twitter to get info.

    Old user


    Google Reader, you were from a more optimistic time when the internet was open. You were a symbol of what could have been. But alas it was not to be. Now I have to read 3 line hot takes on twitter to get info.

    Old user


    RSS in Peace my good friend. You shall never be forgotten

    Do Mass


    I had 20-30 tech and programming related sites all neatly lined up in Google Reader. . .Every day, while compiling large sections of code or the entire product, I'd just turn through a few articles, find something that interested me, and learn something new every day. I have tried many other services, but nothing, and i mean NOTHING could ever replace what was so awesome about GoogleReader

    N.G.


    I had 20-30 tech and programming related sites all neatly lined up in Google Reader. . .Every day, while compiling large sections of code or the entire product, I'd just turn through a few articles, find something that interested me, and learn something new every day. I have tried many other services, but nothing, and i mean NOTHING could ever replace what was so awesome about GoogleReader

    N.G.


    What I miss the most about Google Reader was how it felt to log out and not worry that I was going to miss something. All those articles and websites would still be there when I got back and wouldn't just disappear into nothing like what happens now with social media. When Google killed Reader it let the internet loose from my laptop and it bled over into every part of my life all the time.

    RIP Google Reader.

    -Zack