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Mind Lude<p>Pour one out for Google Tables. 💀 The work-tracking tool and Airtable rival is officially heading to the Google Graveyard, to be discontinued by December 16, 2025. Another product added to the list. What's your go-to no-code database tool now that Tables is getting the axe?</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/google-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable-rival/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable-rival/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProductShutdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProductShutdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCode</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DevLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevLife</span></a></p>
Ferrus :verified_paw:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thelinuxEXP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxEXP</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> really seems to enjoy lighting the fuse to the hypothetical explosive, letting it explode in their face, and then screaming about it happening.</p><p>Yet another product is bound for the <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> as <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> is incapable of not killing their own products, while Microsoft is enshittifying everything they get the damn hands on. Eventually, even companies using ActiveDirectory, Azure (i.e. the entire MS Stack) will dump <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> if they keep this behaviour up, and there will be no coming back from that.</p><p>And then, of course, there's the <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> companies which are as awful as usual</p>
A. Rivera<p>&gt; Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026 <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-and-valve-will-kill-steam-for-chromebooks-experiment-in-january-2026/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">8/google-and-valve-will-kill-steam-for-chromebooks-experiment-in-january-2026/</span></a></p><p>And another project for the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> 🪦 </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steam</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a></p>
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>I’m with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gruber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gruber</span></a></span> on this one; I don’t trust Google any further than I can toss them: “I trust Google with almost nothing long-term. Mark my words, they’re going to do with this Gmail accounts eventually.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinkShorteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinkShorteners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/URLShortener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShortener</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/713125/googl</span><span class="invisible">e-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline</span></a></p>
The Agender Kiwi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@waxy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>waxy</span></a></span> Google just cannot keep itself from killing its own products, can it? I'm honestly surprised that YouTube still exists, tbh.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleKillsStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleKillsStuff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/URLShorteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShorteners</span></a></p>
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Androidauth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Androidauth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@androidauth/features-feg66k2kz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>features-Androidauth</span></a></span> <br>Chrome Beta (multiple Google Account support)<br>Google Maps Go (lighter, smaller, less resource-intensive instance of Maps)<br>Gallery<br>Google Translate<br>Google Go (supports incognito search &amp; has built-in Reader mode)</p><p>Installed a few of these! Now I guess I should start a Google Graveyard countdown for each of them. 🪦 ⏳ </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleMapsGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleMapsGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gallery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleApps</span></a></p>
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Skylled" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Skylled</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@9to5google" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>9to5google</span></a></span> Following up on this story from last year. No update. </p><p>Yet another unfinished product from the always-distracted Google. 📱 🚗 </p><p>Google Graveyard? How about a Hall of Incomplete Google Projects? </p><p><a href="https://9to5google.com/2023/05/31/hands-on-pixel-dashcam/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5google.com/2023/05/31/hand</span><span class="invisible">s-on-pixel-dashcam/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GooglePixel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePixel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DashCam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DashCam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a></p>
Pascal Leinert<p>Ich würde sagen, dass <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stadia</span></a> deswegen nicht erfolgreich war, weil <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> ein extrem ungeduldiges Unternehmen ist, das auf schnellen Profit aus ist. Das Stadia-Kartenhaus begann dann zu zerfallen, als Google ihre First-Party Studios geschlossen hat, weil sie innerhalb von einem Jahr keine AAA Spiele produzieren konnten.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleStadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleStadia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yRA93gP2sjY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/yRA93gP2sjY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Joseph<p>Never, ever, ever, ever, everrrrr, buy Google hardware and rely on software if it comes from Google. Maybe another product manager got promoted for making a new unique fitness tracking app. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProductManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProductManagement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HowManyMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowManyMore</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112395938118040545" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1</span><span class="invisible">12395938118040545</span></a></p>
Travis<p>There’s a reason I don’t use my Gmail address for much anymore. Privacy aside, I just don’t trust that it’s even going to exist in 10 more years, let alone 5, given the rate Google keeps killing products. <br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2022139" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2022139</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://nodespace.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://nodespace.social/tags/googlefit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlefit</span></a> <a href="https://nodespace.social/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://nodespace.social/tags/killedbygoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>killedbygoogle</span></a></p>
Chris J. Karr<p>This company's such a train wreck. The sad thing about it is that when these behemoths throw their weight behind something like this, it sucks all the oxygen out of the environment for a smaller competitor who may end up being more sustainable in the long-term.</p><p><a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/GoogleFit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleFit</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">5/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/</span></a></p>
RavenCode<p>What would the term for Google's tendency to kill off their products 6 minutes after their launch? </p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Joe<p><span>Funny to me that I'm still getting these kinds of notifications from Google Podcasts Manager (RIP). <br><br></span><a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/podcasting" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcasting</a> <a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/GooglePodcasts" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GooglePodcasts</a> <a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/GoogleGraveyard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoogleGraveyard</a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TechDesk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@9to5google" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>9to5google</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GooglePodcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePodcasts</span></a> is gone — and so is my faith in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a><br>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> app is only the latest good Google thing to die. And if Google ever wants us to buy into its promises again, this has to stop. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118873/google-podcasts-shutdown-graveyard" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118873</span><span class="invisible">/google-podcasts-shutdown-graveyard</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a></p>
SouthFresh<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> not if it's based on the one they currently use. I have yet to get it to give me a single useful answer.</p><p>Not ONCE has it been useful.</p><p>More like Lame Language Model.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleGraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleGraveyard</span></a></p>
rootCompute:\<p>It is April 3, 2024, and I am able to listen to podcasts in Google Podcasts.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/googlepodcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlepodcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckgoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckgoogle</span></a></p>
Joe<p><span>The history of Google Podcasts... <br><br></span><a href="https://9to5google.com/2024/03/25/google-podcasts-history/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://9to5google.com/2024/03/25/google-podcasts-history/</a><span><br></span><a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/KilledByGoogle" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KilledByGoogle</a> <a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/GoogleGraveyard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoogleGraveyard</a> <a href="https://fediverse.fun/tags/podcasting" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcasting</a></p>
nish :verified:<p>I guess Google podcasts is going to be yet another product I use until literally the day they yoink it from me (The other being inbox).<br><br>I'm sure there's a Google manager somewhere wondering why people aren't as hyped to use Google products anymore<br><br><a href="https://social.nishtahir.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://social.nishtahir.com/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a></p>
Setsune Wave<p>Since Google Podcasts is going to the Graveyard, what's a good/straightforward way to listen to podcasts on Android? <a href="https://furries.club/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://furries.club/tags/googlepodcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlepodcasts</span></a> <a href="https://furries.club/tags/googlegraveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlegraveyard</span></a> <a href="https://furries.club/tags/mbmbam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbmbam</span></a></p>