Inoreader.

I loved Google Reader. But now Inoreader is better than Google Reader ever was.

Link to the last time I posted this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285449

(Seriously - if you liked RSS try Inoreader)

Also, I have no connection with Inoreader whatsoever. I wish I did. Great product.

QuiteRSS. This is a simple Qt application with good usability that does the job.

Advantages: It's neither a web service that will disappaer tomorrow, nor a browser extension that ties you to a specific browser.

https://quiterss.org/en/about

Off-Topic: As with most websites, I had to visit an "About" sub page to get to the description what it does. Why?! Shouldn't this information be the first you read when you open the main site? It's almost the same nonsense as with so-called "landing pages". If a company's main site doesn't qualify as landing page, why do they create a separate sub page instead of just improving their main site? And some websites don't have any newcomer-friendly sub page at all - then there's Wikipedia to the rescue.

Single apps might be good replacement for greader app but not really for greader as a service. For example: i have multiple devices with different OS’s, some of they had native apps some didn’t but no matter where and how I used reader, I was always in same state from where I had previously been (read items and tags).

I’ve personally settled with feedly now but even now after all these years, it’s not up to par with google reader.

> Not 'rational', I know, but I'm sure I'm not alone.

But in fact what you did was rational in its own way. You enjoyed blogs in the beginning, as long as they were easily accessible by an aggregator. When the user friendly aggregator went away, you decided the blogs didn't offer enough good content to justify the increased management and use of your time.

Lots of interesting things out there. But sometimes you need a flyer pushed through your letterbox to discover them.

Newsblur works great for me. It has some slick machine learning features to help manage complicated feeds.

I went to using local aggregators for a while but then went on to using bazqux.com which handles really nice.

Feedbin is worth the couple of bucks it costs per month: https://feedbin.com

Feedly is pretty good imo.

I've installed CommaFeed on my server (was easy), wrote some little hack-patches to make it behave just exactly like I want it to and it works very well :)

At the time, after going through anger, denial, etc I switched to Feedly, and today I can't even remember what Google Reader looked like anymore.

i kept using The Old Reader. works like a charm, and I have a huge feed of blogs :)