It was so, so easy to move on from Reader, which is why I think the shutdown was not such a big deal. Google gave months of advance warning, and made it easy t

It was so, so easy to move on from Reader, which is why I think the shutdown was not such a big deal. Google gave months of advance warning, and made it easy to export your feeds and data in a cross platform, open format. The fact that their API was open for other clients to use meant there was already an (admittedly limited) ecosystem of feed-reader UI apps that could pick up where they left off, such as Feedly and TheOldReader. You lost a good product when Reader shut down, but you didn't lose the kingdom by any means