Annotated 17-10
Bibli’Oh’s original name was, and I’m not kidding here, going to be some variation on “Google Reader.” Guglr’Dr, Ghewglreed’R. Raise your hand if you even remember what that was.
Ontology is one of the underappreciated sciences, no doubt. Where does The Architecture of Florae belong, under “architecture” or “florae?” Back even before Google Reader was a thing, we briefly thought the internet might have to be organized by categories like this, informed by human decisions or at least vastly different algorithms than the keyword-centered calculations today’s Google uses.
Dear Lord, let our children grow up to be courageous; let them stand tall and proud; let them outgrow our ability to protect them… but Lord, not today. Not just yet.
Remember how I said we were above just turning Sun Tzu’s name into a wood elf author? Well, I forgot that was what I tried to do with the original punchline of this strip. Phil made me change it. He was right to.
I remember Google Reader, mainly because of a bunch of webcomics making announcements along the lines of “Google Reader is closing and it’s how a bunch of you get my updates! Here’s alternatives! Please don’t leave me.”
Personally I still use a bookmarks folder for all my webcomics.
I remember that announcement and scurried to find a new RSS feed posthaste (settling on Feedly). As Pylgrim had mentioned, when the number of webcomics you read are in the triple digits, you need something like that. Would have hated to fall behind on GA.
I think I would have preferred Guglr’Dr. Although it might be hard to decipher some of the elven names at times, when it was too obvious (as in the case with Bibli’Oh)… I dunno, you lose a little immersion? Probably just me.
I was pretty annoyed that it closed down, as that is how I kept track of my webcomics. But thankfully “theoldreader” came along and does the same thing, which I still use to this day.
How do four humans, a dwarf, a gnome, and a half-elf become “six humans”? Seems like she and Konk’kr both need their eyes checked.
Right, a Half-Elf is a Half-Human, plus two short human-like creatures who each may count as a Quarter-Human … that clearly makes five.
Ah, Google Reader. I’ve switched feed-readers 4 times since its untimely demise and although I’m pretty happy with the current one (it’s paid), I’d go back to the G-to-the-R any day. I follow near 100 webcomics or so, so it’s pretty vital stuff, you see.
I currently use feedreader online, it works fine but it annoy is me that I can’t find any explanation what url to use so that my browser can set the feed automatically (if that is even possible on the site.) If I didn’t import most of my feeds and now only slowly add new ones that would make me change.
I miss Google Reader too, it’s behavior was simple and exactly what I was looking for in a feed reader. The closest I have come since is Feedly, though it still has some annoyances. I am glad I was able to export all my RSS at once, having to reimport one at a time would have been awful.
The Internet organized by categories huh? Does that mean I’m not the only one here who’s use Gopher?
I miss Google reader but I get streamlining it though.
“Oh hi, Syr. By the way, how’s your sex life?”
*pours one out for Google Reader, still sadly missed*
Google Reader was my favorite. I was so angry when they shut it down.