Digg Reader “Almost Ready”

    Background: Google close their Reader, a convenient online RSS reader, and the deadline is July 1. For many, this is a chance to launch their RSS reader with blackjack and whores, and for nothing to catch the scattering audience of Google Reader. Among the first to announce the development of a Reader replacement is Digg. Over the course of several months, the Digg Reader team published rare updates, and now ...

    6 hours ago, the guys from Digg published a new post informing them that they had started sending out invites for the elite, and “in a few hours” they promised to send invites to the other pre-signed users . It is gratifying. It is funny that, among other things, the following phrase slips in the text:

    “This beta version is aimed first and foremost at Google Reader users looking for a new home in advance of its imminent shutdown.”

    This is actually translated into Russian as follows: “we really, really wanted to have time to grab a weighty chunk of Google Reader audience for free, and all that had to be done was to be able to write an online RSS reader in three months that could withstand powerful influx of visitors. We did not cope with this task, but we are still sorry to miss this opportunity, so we will put you on beta. Deal with it. ”

    What good does this mean for us, without five days of former Google Reader users? The obvious: we still will not hang in a vacuum, and there will be someone to catch us. What bad does the word beta mean? Let me quote from the same news:

    Over the next few months we will add:
    - search
    ...
    - additional features, such as “mark as unread” and “show only unread”.

    So they say, ta-daaam, come. “Show only unread” is an additional feature that will be screwed over the next few months.

    In the comments we share the options of who moved where.

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