The Old Reader RSS app closes registration after months of 'hell'

What I don't understand is this: If you want to get rid of users you already have, why don't you charge them an exorbitant amount? You'll get cash for your effort, and those who really like your product will stay. The rest will naturally leave.

Doing manually what the free market would have done automatically and much more efficiently seems like a waste of their effort.

When Google Reader announced it will be shut down, I - like many others - started to look around for a replacement. I was looking for a reader that has a nice mobile web UI with aggregated list of all articles (unread or not).

Turned out that there aren't many readers that support mobile browsers, most want you to install some app. The Old Reader and FeedBin were the only ones that came even close to what I was looking for. So I created account for both of those.

After some time I just got frustrated for both and set up feed2imap and now I don't have to worry if and when my RSS reader is going to shut its doors.

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-time... the actual source