The App Graveyard

I was recently thinking about Yahoo News Digest. This was quietly one of the best news apps ever made, in my humble opinion. It was super simple: 8 news articles + 1 fact of the day, twice a day, at 8AM and 6PM. As a busy college kid it was perfect for catching up on big news stories. The UI was gorgeous, no ads, just news.

So of course it got killed in 2017.

Anyways what are your long-last apps? The ones that got away? Is it something from the Google Graveyard? I still miss Inbox, and the replacement I got into is now AI trash lmfao. A good twitter or reddit app before their APIs got pulled thanks to enshittification? Something I’ve never heard of? Tell me!

Games can apply here too (RIP Dragalia Lost).

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RIP Dragalia Lost. :saluting_face:

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Glimpse becoming abadonware while the software it forked from remains the defacto open piece Photoshop alternative is sad. It ran so much faster for me.

I think you can only download it now through some git or command line thing, no more executable installer.

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The fact that Google Reader dying basically put RSS feeds on life support (where seemingly the only thing they’re used for reliably now are podcast updates) has me mad at google for killing a major service and a valuable protocol. Arguably the product kill that really set the google graveyard concept into motion in the first place

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I use Inoreader and it’s pretty good! RSS sickos are still out here!

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10+ years ago i used a program called PodTrapper on my android phone. it stopped working sometime in 2013, and evidently the website has not been updated in about as long (despite still being up, somehow). RIP, you were good for no-frills podcast listening.

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-SLAMS FIST DOWN VIOLENTLY- Google Play Music… they had such a good thing and now we have yt music which is ok at best
UGHH
i miss being able to make playlists from play music AND my own music on my computer or phone…

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Inoreader is a great free option for sure.

This probably makes me more mad than Inbox tbh. Glad Apple Music fits pretty comfortably for me now but I never should have had to switch. Biggest “we were all rooting for you” moment in tech

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For podcasts I’ve been using Podcast Addict for a decade and never had any major issues.

Constantly mourning the fact that nobody picked up the Circles feature from G+ after it died…it wasn’t perfect and people would still be people, but I yearn for the ability to discuss certain topics with just certain groups of people without other people constantly interrupting 300-level conversations to demand 101-style explainers…also it would be good for many less fraught topics too but yeah, really didn’t help the lack of nuance online when it went away.

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Maybe a hot take but G+ would have been the perfect social media site if it wasn’t made by Google. I’m baffled no one’s tried to emulate circles.

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Circles were such a good idea. I feel like some apps have tried to do similar but not nearly as clearly implemented.

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