<story><title>Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicksergeant</author><text>Yeah, I really don&apos;t understand what he&apos;s looking for here. He wants constructive criticism about &lt;i&gt;what parts&lt;/i&gt; of Google Reader were useful, but if you complain at all, your comment will be deleted.&lt;p&gt;Google Reader &lt;i&gt;itself&lt;/i&gt; was the useful piece. It aggregates RSS feeds. I don&apos;t really know how else you can explain that &quot;yes, it aggregated RSS feeds, and I like to read all of my RSS feeds in one place&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>I thought it was straight-forward: he wants to understand what it was about Reader that users liked, so he can work on incorporating them into Google+. Since he does not have the power to save Reader, he&apos;s telling people this is not the venue to complain about its shutdown.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicksergeant</author><text>Yeah, I really don&apos;t understand what he&apos;s looking for here. He wants constructive criticism about &lt;i&gt;what parts&lt;/i&gt; of Google Reader were useful, but if you complain at all, your comment will be deleted.&lt;p&gt;Google Reader &lt;i&gt;itself&lt;/i&gt; was the useful piece. It aggregates RSS feeds. I don&apos;t really know how else you can explain that &quot;yes, it aggregated RSS feeds, and I like to read all of my RSS feeds in one place&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ditojim</author><text>i also think this line of thinking is silly.  the Googler is assuming a set of features is what made Google Reader the best RSS reader on the market.  while that is true in essence (features do add up to the overall product) i don&apos;t think any 1 feature in reader was killer. rather, the collection of all the features made the app itself killer.</text></comment>