Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Miniflux, NewsBlur, and the long shadow of Google Reader's shutdown on 1 July 2013.
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A detailed account of the Google Reader shutdown — the announcement on 13 March 2013, the usage figures Google cited, and the documented effect on feed-reader traffic in the months that followed.
Who Still Reads It
A side-by-side comparison of the two dominant hosted feed readers — their subscription models, team and power-user features, AI integration layers (Feedly Leo; Inoreader's equivalent), and where each serves a different kind of reader.
Who Still Reads It
A practical account of the two leading self-hosted feed readers — Miniflux's Go-based minimalism and FreshRSS's PHP feature depth — and what running your own reader actually costs in maintenance versus what it returns in data ownership.
Who Still Reads It
The undocumented but persistent per-channel Atom feed that YouTube has never officially advertised — its URL pattern, what it contains, and how feed-reader users have used it to replace algorithmic recommendations with a simple chronological list.
Who Still Reads It
How Mastodon's ActivityPub implementation exposes a per-account RSS feed at a documented URL — what it contains, how feed readers consume it, and what this means for the argument that federated social networks and RSS are complements rather than competitors.