Readers? Take DNW with you. — Switching RSS

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The day is finally here. Google Reader dies tomorrow.

6,887 Reglike readers get their DNW news through Reader.

Most competing RSS readers have a handy import feature to take all of your Google feeds with you. But if you’re starting from scratch, please subscribe to the RSS feed at:

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My search for a Google Reader replacement has been anything but enjoyable. I like Google Reader since it “just works”. And since it was connected to my Google account, once I signed into Gmail I was by now signed in to Reader.

I tried Feedly. Not only did the Google import not work, but you must sign in with your Google account every time you access Feedly. I have two-factor authentication on Google, which is something I need for email but not for an RSS reader. It’s an annoyance for RSS.

I tried AOL’s fresh RSS reader and it typifies the difference between Google and AOL: one is simple and text based, the other is complex and graphical.

As of now I’m trying Digg Reader. I was perplexed following signing up as to how I could sign in again; it turns out following importing your feeds you need to link it to either your Twitter or Facebook account. Although I don’t understand why I need to grant access to Digg to view who I follow, I guess this is kind of public anyway.

Really, what someone ought to have done is literally cloned Reader. That’s something I’d sign up for in a heartbeat.