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>The traffic to the web app was negligible.

This is completely and demonstrably false. It drives more traffic at this point than G+ itself.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-users-does-Google-Reader-have

This is not demonstrably false, as the Quora post you linked to is 3 almost 2 years old. (For comparison, the latest answer is right around when G+ launched.) The large majority of the population doesn't even know what RSS is, let alone use it for their day-to-day reading.

You have reason to believe that Reader's usage went down in two years?

Relative to Google+? Yes.

You have reason to believe that Reader's usage went up in two years?

(I personally have no idea…)

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