[zanny]

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).

[bruckie]

I don't think that "just" is the right prefix for "open source the backend reader server code". Moving it off of Google's internal infrastructure would have been a major project.