Google Reader is shutting down July 1st but have no fear, Feedly is preparing for a seamless migration from Google Reader. The company wrote a blog post about preparing for the transition, which includes updating all Feedly apps and extensions to their latest versions. Here’s now to do it for each specific browser:
- Chrome: head over to chrome://extnesions and enable the developer mode. Then click on “update extensions” to force upgrade to the latest version.
- Firefox and Safari: head over to http://www.feedly.com/index.html and manually re-install the extension. Then restart the browser and make sure you have the latest version (16.0.514 at the time of this writing).
- iOS and Android: update the Feedly apps in the App Store or Google Play. If you’re not sure if there’s an update, you can always uninstall and reinstall the app. The latest version for Android is 16.0.5 and 16.0.1 for iOS at the time of this writing.
There are a few caveats for this migration. Histories from Google Reader will not be synced as that is an overwhelming amount of data. This means you’ll start with a blank history and your unread counts will be reset. This is a one time issue and users going forward should have no problems with histories. There is also a chance that you may experience a gap of a few days in the saved items moving over.
Other than that, it should be smooth sailing when the transition does happen. Users can continue using the Google Authentication to log in. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and LinkedIn login support are being added “shortly.” Feedly is going to be migrating aggressively with a time frame between now and June 21st.
Feedly has also listed some bugs to be expected so head over to the source link to find out more.
[Source: Feedly]
