> and when they moved to pay only (or they closed? i can't remember) The incident you are thinking about, would be when they said they were going to close the

> and when they moved to pay only (or they closed? i can't remember) The incident you are thinking about, would be when they said they were going to close the service entirely, because of the volume of signups they had in the aftermath of Google Reader closing. https://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures https://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-tim... In the end they did not do that, but realising any service I sign up for might close just as readily as Google Reader put me off RSS for years. (I am a paid The Old Reader user now.)