One more month and the platform I’ve been using to keep track of blogs that I follow will no longer be available. The end of Google Reader is coming July 1st. What?? Now what do I do?!
I remember when I first learned about RSS readers. I was amazed. I can know when my favorite blogs have posted something new without having to check each blog? Yes, please! It saves so much time and the blogs I follow are filed into folders for better organization. And, now I have to change my feed reader. Blech.
I have known for three months that Google Reader was closing but have put off doing anything about it. I finally had some time this weekend to check a few other RSS readers out. Thankfully, there are other options out there like NewsGator, Bloglines, Netvibes, Page Flakes, and Feedly to name a few.
For now I’m going with super simple and easy. I’ve switched to Bloglovin’. It was painless. Seriously! I created an account, hit the import my feeds button, and BAM! there they all were in their tidy folders and everything. I’m loving the format of how the feeds are displayed.
Another plus….I can’t see the whole post which means I actually click over to read the entire post on your blog and am more apt to leave comments. Yup, I’m guilty of reading the entire post in my Google Reader then moving on. Shame on me, right?
The only problem with Bloglovin so far is it isn’t listed as part of Feedburner so I’ve included a Follow Me on Bloglovin’ button below the feedburner button on my sidebar. Hopefully this will help any of you who also find themselves having to switch feed readers by July, which according to my Feedburner info means 2,400 of you also follow this blog using Google Reader. Better get to switiching!
I was so irritated about Reader shutting down–but I switched to Bloglovin too. I was thrilled it was so easy!
This is great, thank you! I didn’t even know Bloglovin existed….
arg! I think I even signed a petition to keep igoogle. Its soo good and they want to retire it because they don’t think people use portals or whatever they are called anymore. seriously there is nothing to replace it.
anyway I signed up for blog loving 2 months months ago and I enjoy reading blogs through the daily email they send out, but I’m still using my igoogle – its my homepage! I’ll be sad when it goes.
I signed up with feedly and am loving it so far. It also was super easy to switch and imports all your blogs right in with a simple sign in. (you use your google account)
I was not impressed that they could take away my reader, dang free products. 🙂
I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I stopped reading blogs because I hate feedly so much, but it’s the only feed reader I could find. So I’m really glad to hear about bloglovin because I HATE FEEDLY IT’S AWFUL it’s NOT intuitive and it’s ugly and it doesn’t remember your settings and I want to stab it.
Maybe now I will read blogs again!!!
I’m proud to say that I’ve been following you on Bloglovin for almost two weeks now! You are right…it was super easy…imported everything!
I’ve been using feedly and I really like it. I’m glad you found something that works for you. There’s a few great options out there.