My post ends on this note: Wouldn't it be much better to channel all this energy towards something more productive? Like, say, writing a few thousand lin

My post ends on this note: Wouldn't it be much better to channel all this energy towards something more productive? Like, say, writing a few thousand lines of Rails or Django or Node JS or Clojure or whatever code you like to implement a replacement, either from scratch, or by contributing to an existing OSS project. It's a big world out there, we have not "entered a darker timeline in the history of the net," and it's always time to make it better, not demand that someone else do that for you. If that perspective sounds like trolling to anyone, they can just click on any of the other submissions and discuss the relative merits of the Google Reader population over ordinary people.