Newsblur is going thru some interesting times. It started off as a one-man side project and gave users an excellent alternative to Google Reader when GOOG stri

Newsblur is going thru some interesting times. It started off as a one-man side project and gave users an excellent alternative to Google Reader when GOOG stripped it of many good features several months back. NB even has a couple truly novel features around viewing the original (non-RSS) content without managing multiple windows/tabs and around filtering feeds. It's one worrying issue, though, is that the dev is constantly adding new features and inexplicably removing old ones, all at a breakneck pace and perhaps at the cost of good bug-hunting. It can be really frustrating to use it one day and the next day come back to find a great feature axed and a bunch of new clutter in the UI. All that said, it is far and away the best RSS reader out there, and it's fully open-source, so if I truly get fed up with the dev, hey, I can always branch it and host it myself. :)