It's still a sore spot. It was like a knife in the ribs. A really long knife. Serrated. And floppy. Spinning, too. Laced with Carolina Reaper sauce.

With the death of Google Reader, I completely stopped reading feeds. It killed a part of the internet for me.

NewsBlur is closest replacement I could find, been using it since Reader died. I like it.

I'm using inoreader.com, it's really good.

Feedly is better than Google Reader ever was these days. The team there is also super responsive to issues.

I agree that Feedly is great (using it right now to reply).

The support is however abysmal. I tried to raise two bugs for a year but nobody cared to reply. They are at par with JetBrains.

In contrast, I did not have any hopes with Chrome but it ended up being worked upon.

I found https://goread.io/ as my replacement. Doesn't have the intelligence to spotlight articles, but it does pretty well.

Same here, I've tried feedly and a variety of local clients but it just didn't have the same charm. Now I just pop open HN, my automatic Google Now feed, and reddit occasionally.

Social networks came in with their own version of what a "feed" is and then Push started to rise.

So the old model of on-request feeds was probably on the downfall anyway.

I still have the Reader bookmark next to Gmail's. Once or twice a year I click it accidentally and get angry all over again. It serves as a reminder to not put all my eggs in one basket.