@blakeyrat said:
So it's finally happened. First they came for Google Buzz, and I did not protest because Buzz was redundant and poorly-designed. Then they came for Google Wave, and I did not protest because Wave was confusing and pointless. But now... now they've pried Google Reader from my cold, dead fingers. And I am sad, and angry, and many emotions. Fuck Google.
And for everybody who's going to come into this thread like a howler monkey yelling, "BUT IT WASN'T MAKING ANY MONEY!" let me just point out that Google never fucking even fucking attempted to make any money from it. They never served ads on it. They never asked for a monthly subscription. So duh. Duh it wasn't making any money. I would have gladly paid for continued use of it though. Gladly. Considering the alternatives.
So back when Google made the announcement a couple months ago, I went on a little spree and tried out a bunch of RSS clients. One of those was Feedly. I had it all working, all my feeds were imported from Google Reader, I could see a list of feed items and such, everything good to go. Yay. So I come back to it today, now that Reader is dead, and what do I find? Apparently Feedly didn't ever actually import my subscriptions; what it did was just link to the Google Reader API. Now that Reader is gone, so are the subscriptions I added. Sheesh. Of course that wouldn't be so bad except... oh wait, they haven't yet implemented OPML importing! So there's no way to put my feeds into Feedly, other than fucking copy-and-paste 300 times!
Fuck. Reader wasn't even a good web app. In fact it was terrible in many ways. But its competition is somehow SO MUCH WORSE.
Fuck you Google. I hope the few bucks you save per month is worth the lifetime of hatred you've earned from every Reader user. You dicks.
Trying going to http://cloud.feedly.com to import your feeds.
OPML Export: http://cloud.feedly.com/#opml
OPML import is on the way. Still, pretty lame they didn't implement it already. And their export page is pretty ghetto. I have no problems with their UI though. I've been using it since the Reader announcement several months ago. There was a prompt just a few days ago about importing to the Feedly cloud.