After trying to adapt to Feedly, I finally managed to find goread.io (<a href="http://goread.io" rel="nofollow">http://goread.io</a>). It's very close to the original, minus some shortcuts I had gotten used to.<p>It's also open source on github(<a href="https://github.com/mjibson/goread" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mjibson/goread</a>).
After trying quite a few of the alternatives, I realized how much I've become used to the reader UI, especially all the keyboard shortcuts. Yes, a lot of that is copied, but that just makes it worse when you're missing out on a few.<p>Then there's the update rate and the UI speed (e.g. feedly manages to freeze my whole browser). Also, while the interface missed out on a few of the Google improvements, at least it was possibly to turn off most administrative debris.<p>I might really have to pick up a self-hosted one and maybe make a few changes of my own, as RSS is a pretty big part of my daily 'net consumption (Never understood how people could cope with twitter for that. Feels like drowning in an echo chamber.)
I've actually been a little grateful to them for closing down. When they did, I went all over trying out the alternatives. If they hadn't shut down I never would have noticed that there were better choices out there.<p>Now I'm on Newsblur (a lot of good things to say about other alternatives, but this is the one I settled on). With Google out of the way, there is now a chance for small success like them (and Feedly and Old Reader, etc) to get some market share and pull in some revenue.<p>It has not only turned out to be painless but beneficial. And it's given me a healthier outlook on relying on Google. That is, I don't.
Yes.<p>Been using Feedly (though tried a number of like products, but none were able to accommodate my large list of subscriptions or they were plagued with bugs, glitches and responsiveness issues). Even just plunked down $45 for a year "subscription" solely for <i>Search</i> but thus far, their implementation of "Search" leaves much to be desired -- it's not responsive ("incremental" searches can take 10 seconds or more, sometimes timing out) and search results don't go back any further than ~30 days.
I'm glad it's gone since it forced me to look for better alternatives. I tried pretty much all of them, but settled on BazQux Reader. $10 a year for a vastly superior service is well worth it.
Yes, but I've also been warming up to my self-hosted tt-rss instance. So far, speed is really the only feature that I've come to critically miss.
I've been using Feedly with Reeder for iPhone. In terms of design I think Feedly is one of the better options, but they should really spend more time on making their UI a whole lot more responsive. I've always felt one of Google Reader's great tricks was its asynchronous UI which really gave it that speedy feeling.
I have only been reading my RSS via Reeder.app on iOS for the last couple of years. I've switched to Feedbin (I barely feel the $2 a month) and all works fine. Except for the fact that Reeder for iPad doesn't support Feedbin so I can only read on my iPhone and we're still waiting for the iPad version to be updated.
Stopped using reader since Flipboard. But after the death of Reader, I find myself using Digg reader instead of Flipboard. I love that popularity <i>dots</i>.<p>So I guess I'm glad Google off'ed Reader, at least for me.
After paying for Feed Wrangler and Feedbin, I find myself using SilverReader. The only Google Reader feature I miss is the onscreen menu to link to other Google services such as Translate and Finance.
No. Back to where I was before Reader.. Netvibes.. and in a way it's better too (it now has a reader view.) Don't know why there isn't more people namedropping it.