[SeppoErviala]

I for one welcome this change as an opportunity for growth. Google has not put any effort into reader for some time now. Maybe some innovative company will get the google reader user base and build something great.

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OTOH I do feel sad that reader is gone as it has been a part of my daily life for many years now. Some say that RSS is dead but I cannot find any alternative to feeds I've collected.

[markdennehy]

You know what you call a product you don't put much effort into for some time and which is still in daily use by happy users?

Working.

/mutter.

[SeppoErviala]

I would like more powerful filtering options and better recommendations. For example, Hacker News feed is impossible to follow as RSS on reader as it has too high volume (for me at least). I would be content with ~40 daily recommendations.

Google reader had decent random recommendations before the G+ update. I believe that a good recommendation system can guess relevant items for given user, but that was not what google reader has been doing for some time now.

[chrisbolt]

I long ago switched to the Hacker News 100 feed: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

[alxndr]

I've been using this RSS feed of top stories: http://hnbest.herokuapp.com/

[SeppoErviala]

Thanks! This should really be listed in the HN/rss page.