The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation

An anonymous reader writes "The Old Reader, a popular RSS service and alternative to Google Reader, last week revealed it would be closing its service to the public in two weeks. Soon after the backlash, there was hint of a stance reversal, and now it's happened: The Old Reader will remain open to the public, thanks to a bigger team and 'significantly more' resources, both provided by a new corporate entity located in the US. While details about this 'corporate entity' are indeed scarce, we do know the announcement was authored by an individual named Ben Wolf. He promises his team consists of 'big fans and users' of The Old Reader who want to help it 'grow and improve for years to come' and who will be introduced properly in the coming weeks."

Self-hosting is an alternative

[Anonymous Coward]

Just go with TT-RSS [tt-rss.org] and host your RSS aggregator yourself if you have the skill/hardware. The Old Reader will still need to find a business model. Feedly announced their cash grab earlier today [softpedia.com]. The lunch will not be free anyway in the long run.

If you don't want to host it yourself, go with one of the up-front honest for-pay services. "No cost, hosting for free!" obviously means "no reliability" in this new era of online feed aggregators.

Too Late

[Goody]

I switch to InoReader after the Old Reader told me they were dumping me and everyone who signed up after the Google Reader announcement. And that was after a two day outage and several other small outages. They had a prime start-up opportunity and they blew it when they lost their cool and alienated a lot of users.

Re:Too late

[JackieBrown]

I switched to inoreader after reading the recommendations here. Of course, I had started using oldreader based on the recommendations here so we will see how that goes.

I'd set up TT-RSS, but my work blocks all ports (at least the ones I tried) except for 80 and I am using that for other stuff at home already.