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This is the most approaching clone of Google Reader I've seen so far.

It has one big problem, however:

A feed can have only one tag (or, if you see a tag as a folder, a feed can be only in one folder).

This is a big problem because Google Reader's UI encouraged to add multiple tags on a feed (you didn't moved a feed from one folder to an other : you selected a list of tags the feed appear in). And the OPML format allows this too.

So, if you import an OPML export, half your feeds may appear to be missing.

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An other great Google Reader alternative is http://yoleoreader.com/ . Apart from its UI sometimes freezing for a second (maybe due to synchronous I/O or too long script execution), it's an other great Google-Reader-like RSS reader.



I personally use https://www.inoreader.com/ and found it to be a simple and brilliant Reader-like replacement.


I've been enjoying https://digg.com/reader as a "close-enough to Google Reader" substitute, as well. They launched a mobile-browser-friendly update a few days ago, and the Android app is supposedly "very soon" to release.


Same here. And most important to me, it implements the Google Reader API, so my filtering scripts continue to work.


I'm rather happy with http://bazqux.com/

Granted, it's a one man shop, but he's charging $9-$29/year, so hopefully enough to keep it running. It's written in Haskell and Ur/Web, is quite fast, took my Google Reader takeout with no issues (400 feeds scattered across 35 folders) Allows login via Twitter, Facebook, Google or OpenID.


Big is relative, of course. I don't think I ever used that feature of Google Reader, and it's unclear how many others depended on it as well.

That being said, of course, it's a great feature to have.




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