[amix]

I think this is a bad decision as the market has moved to other things. And others such as Feedly or NewsBlur already serve this niche well.

For the record I haven't used Google Reader for years (and I have over 500 feeds in it as I used it a lot at some point). Why? Because I find my news elsewhere (on Hacker News, Twitter, Google Plus, /r/python, reddit/r/programming etc.) - - And not to say the awesome mobile services such as Flipboard or Prismatic. I guess RSS usage is even worse for the mainstream and non-technical users.

[mkr-hn]

I don't know if Flipboard can work for me since I have no way to try it, but none of the others come even close to what an RSS reader lets me do. It's good that you've found something that works for your needs, but RSS and RSS readers fill a large niche that has no equivalent tool. I would love it if Digg could better integrate what Reader did with what all the others try to do. Feedly and NewsBlur fall short in a long list of ways.

[MatthewPhillips]

NewsBlur has been unusably slow since the Reader shutdown notice, so I disagree that the niche is being served already, it's anyone's ball game at this point.

[conesus]

Try now. While I haven't scaled the backend yet, I have put a massive db machine in place as a stand-in.

[Shank]

NewsBlur doesn't have an API, and as a result, the defacto standard would be Feedly. We now have a similar singular pipeline problem.

The Digg engineers have a lot more experience working at scale than the one person behind NewsBlur, and can probably whip out a suitable competitor and an API to boot faster than NewsBlur can.

That, and everybody loves competition.

[mkr-hn]

https://www.newsblur.com/api

[ldh]

Discovering news was never RSS's sweet spot for me. What it's great for is tracking deeper content from handpicked sources regardless of popularity.