&gt; Not one of those alternatives is good enough, because they’re just not the same.<p>So what is the problem exactly? Is it really that hard to make a good reader?<p>Personally I don&#x27;t really care. My Reader list was so bloated I never had time to go through anything. Just speculating but could it be that many people were like me, using Reader out of habit? So when it disappeared it didn&#x27;t really matter much because algorithms and aggregators had already replaced it. That could explain why none of the alternatives really took off but I don&#x27;t know.