I'm looking for something very similar to Google Reader in terms of features and usability: quick, reliable, easy to use and with a high density of information. I was wondering which reader HN users would recommend.
Aside from this, however, I would have gone with Old Reader. Feedly is a good choice (especially with their new cloud platform), but last time I checked, they didn't let you export your feeds. If you don't mind that, Feedly is a great choice.
I haven't tried Digg or AOL Reader since they aren't available. My usage is basically a headline view of all the feeds, I have them in different catalogs. I will scroll through them to see anything worth to read, and open it up as a new tab as i go through them all.
Newsblur is very non Google Reader like. I suppose it fits some of the pattern of flows of a particular niche. But not me.
Yoleo is great except it doesn't work very well with non Unicode Feeds and it is quite slow. Unread count is overlapping. I think it is a solid app given some more time to develop. But I use Reader everyday or every 4 - 6 hours i cant afford to wait.
Feedly web works well so far. It is the closest thing to Google Reader in Headline views. The thing i dont like are performance and slow scrolling in some cases. But it generally fits me well.
The thing is, there is nothing wrong to try everything out. It is only a click of a button for your Google Login.
Minimal, self-hosted, great codebase, implements a clone of Fever's API so it can be used with any mobile client that supports Fever.
After trying a few other services and apps, I switched to NetNewsWire, which is a client-side Mac app that does what I want. Pretty happy so far.