Moving away from Feedly to Old Reader

Feedly was natural choice when Google Reader shutdown in July of year 2013.

Feedly topped the list of alternative to Google Reader in almost all tech blogs, e.g. Lifehacker’s one here.

Sadly, feedly (feedly.com) started to pull strings of users. annoying users of little little feature they would add and say, well you gotta get premium to use this.

While feed readers who were fans of Google Reader could still keep concentrated on feed reading capabilities ignoring what feedly was talking about all the time; and did not bother to pay for this service.

And, it seems, this annoyed feedly more, so it started cutting down basic feed reading capabilities – like after certain limit, you can not subscribe to a feed for free; and instead, you could subscribe to a topic if you had to.

Now, why in the world someone would subscribe to topics on feedly when there are already tones of webs already in the market (Google News, Google Alerts, Pintrest, Google Newsstand, etc.) doing that and which is not even pure feed reading experience.

Then after looking at tens of alternatives for feedly, I liked The Old Reader (www.theoldreader.com) the most.

It has a very simple website, which is not money hungry as the earlier one.

Old Reader is supported by News+ app on all types of devices – here.

Kudos to The Old Reader! – https://theoldreader.com

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