I still don't know how to use the Internet without Google Reader :/

There was a moment of beautiful karma a couple years ago when I was at a museum conference where the Google Cultural Institute (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/) team was trying to sign up partners but people kept asking how they could trust that it wouldn't turn into the next Reader and how they could get their data out or have permanent redirects when (not if) Google decided to shut the service down.

I don't get it though. Yea, it was a dick move they did not just open source the backend reader server code so people could just selfhost a replacement, but they did let you export your feeds and now we have a half dozen reasonable or good reader replacements that do the same job, and most of them copied Google's UI to attract old reader users.

It was one of the most seamless transitions besides the lack of good Android apps for a while (and Feedly's is still super slow).

Feedly's use of whitespace bugs the crap out of me. I also don't like the behavior on the desktop as much. I much prefer Inoreader.

https://www.inoreader.com

My experience with Digg reader is that it is still subpar, though better than Feedly. Specifically, I've seen it miss updates on some feeds (sometimes for days at a time), and it frequently "forgets" that I've looked at items and shows them as new again (seems to be a UI glitch). It also frequently shows feeds as having unread items but no items are actually unread (seems to be a server-side glitch, resolved by marking read in bulk).

Digg Reader is still the best I've found, but still feels like a notable step down from the reliability and consistency of Google Reader.

Amen...