This feels weird to be going in the opposite direction than I was a year ago.. After discovering how great RSS reader was I thought this is the best thing since.. well I can't compare it.. It made viewing sites that normally had popup crap viewable without worrying.. Now with reader a short few months away from closing down and FVD speed dial questionable at best, I will return all the sites that remain on reader to a bookmark site I found nearly two years ago.. I have my new amount of RSS sites sent to the Old Reader but it doesn't look promising for that to work.. I don't like the other readers that I have tried so, the idea of having some of these sites be on Facebook isn't appealing to me either, I already have too many likes in that manner and the same with Twitter.. In fact I can only follow 2000 sites on Twitter and had someone follow me that has twice as many as me.. They are following over four thousand.. I will say this much about how I got so many RSS feeds/twitter follows.. When I look at Reddit there would be a really cool story and I thought, I've gotta follow this more closely so I would add their RSS feed to reader and that happened a lot to the point where that is how I got over two thousand sites.. They add up quickly over time.. This past November I decided to unclutter things a bit and deleted quite a few RSS feeds.. Then after getting the streaming player I decided a few weeks ago that I should get rid of more RSS feeds.. Then last Wednesday happened and Google would do the job for me.. What I did was get the feed list and try to get several sites going but the only trouble is I dove in head first and took all of what I have to those sites. After decluttering this weekend I reacquired my RSS list and redid old reader.. My place in queue is just over the 47000 mark.. I initially was in the three thousand area, but getting out of queue will cost me?? Probably nothing, I don't look for that reader to work, and so that is why I am reverting back to bookmarking my sites.. Bookmark all the important as backup even the ones on the speed dial. I wouldn't do this but since FVD has "upgraded" the system to online I don't trust it and another reason is I might switch to a different speed dial that doesn't have syncing.. So have to try something to give this a go.. It should take maybe a week to do this, maybe more.. But it will be worth it unless the bookmarking site stops working which is a possibility.
Badge Henry
(P.S. thought I'd add this .. What will likely be my final stats from reader since if a new reader will start to work I will abandon this site as soon as it happens, also I will likely forget to get the stats in late June, but you never know.. So here is from the stats site on reader : From your 518 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,426 items, clicked 19 items, starred 0 items, and emailed 0 items.
Badge Henry
(P.S. thought I'd add this .. What will likely be my final stats from reader since if a new reader will start to work I will abandon this site as soon as it happens, also I will likely forget to get the stats in late June, but you never know.. So here is from the stats site on reader : From your 518 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,426 items, clicked 19 items, starred 0 items, and emailed 0 items.
Since August 29, 2011 you have read a total of 66,399 items.
The reason I haven't shared anything is because those links are disabled.. I tried many times to do a quick share thing but there are ways around that and I figured an extra step isn't that big of a deal.. But dead is what Google wants their reader to be and dead is what it is to me.. Guess I'm picking over the carcus by using it.. There are sites trying to save Google reader but I say let it die.. Maybe Google will follow suit.. )
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