NewsBlur is nice. (I'm a very happy paid user.) It's social features are close to what was lost when Google shutdown their Reader. (The biggest thing lacking is how big the community was in GReader's heyday, but that was a rare lightning in a bottle and not NewsBlur's fault.)

As a paid customer I know that I'm a customer of NewsBlur, they expect to keep my business, and Samuel Clay has been very good over the years about listening to customer and community feedback.

Newsblur is indeed great. It is under active development, the developer is responsive to bug reports, the mobile apps are good (if not gorgeous), and there are some innovative features, such as the ability to train Newsblur to sort certain posts into a "focus" list.

Plus I consider the fact that it operates using a freemium model a great benefit as there are no ads, it is less likely to close shop out of the blue, and it is less likely to be selling user data to support itself.

Another +1 for Newsblur. I have been a paid user ever since Google Reader shut down. Its design goal was to fill just that gap, so for those who loved the workflow of Reader, Newsblur was the obvious choice. Of course, it has far exceeded Reader's feature set since then. It has had some performance issues in the past, but the developer was quick to respond to them.

+1 vote for Newsblur. I was using Google Reader start to finish and also tried several others before settling on Newsblur. It's perfect in almost every way, but has a curious/arbitrary number of stories preserved per feed, sometimes 200, sometimes 500. I haven't figured out if it's an option, or an algorithm.